Letzte Japan-Photo News Rinko Kawauchi: “Utatane” exhibition in Paris Just a short post after a long hiatus, but I hope to post more in the upcoming months. I know I wrote a few times about Rinko Kawauchi - with whom I had a very pleasant dinner in Tokyo a few weeks ago -, but since this is the first time that her famous series “Utatane” [...]... Happy New Year! I packed my bag and I am off to South East Asia for to spend some leisure time. A great 2008 to everybody! ... Mikiko Hara When I went to Japan in the second half of the 1990s for to research Modern Japanese photography I was fortunate to meet the photographer Eiji Ina who introduced me to the contemporary photography scene in Tokyo. At that time it was nearly impossible for foreigners without a well developed ability to read Japanese [...]... Daido Moriyama in Cologne It’s not the first time that I write about Daido Moriyama. The reason is simple: Daido Moriyama is one of my favorite photographers. His photographs and his books - especially the book Shashinyo Sayônara (Farewell Photography) - had a huge impact on my initial idea of Japanese photography. Therefore it had a certain inevitability that [...]... John Szarkowski (1925-2007) and Japanese Photography John Szarkowski, a curator who almost single-handedly elevated photography’s status in the last half-century to that of a fine art, making his case in seminal writings and landmark exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, died in on Saturday in Pittsfield, Mass. He was 81. [Quote: New York Times Obituary] American Photography As the New [...]...