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Gazing at the Contemporary World: Japanese Photography from the 1970s to the Present
This exhibition is an overview of the diverse photographic expression that has emerged in Japan since the 1970s. This show is composed of two sections (excluding “Prologue” and “Epilogue” ). The first, “A Changing Society,” focuses on human being as members of society. The second, “Changing Landscapes,” looks at cities, the suburbs, and nature.
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Museum of Anthropology, Wake Forest University (Winston-Salem,North Carolina,United States)
December 16-December 30, 2011Government Office Building of Arequipa(Arequipa,Peru)
November 2-November 30, 2011Art Gallery Ryoichi Jinnai(Lima,Peru)
September 1-September 30, 2011CHIMINIKE Interactive Educational Center (Tegucigalpa,The Republic of Honduras)
May 20 - July 3, 2011Regional Museum of Occident, Temporal Exhibition room (Santa Ana, El Salvador)
April 15 - May 8, 2011Shopping Center"Galerias", Exhibition room (San Salvador, El Salvador)
February 10 -March 2 ,2011Centro Cultural Corp Banca (Caracas,Venezuela)
October 25 -December 5 ,2010Virgilio Barco Library (Bogota,Colombia)
August 4 - 18, 2010Municipalidad de Alajuela (Alajuela, Costa Rica)
July 5 - 25, 2010Galeria Nacional (San Jose, Costa Rica)
May 18 - June 17, 2010Snowwhite Gallery (Auckland, New Zealand)
April 21 - May 2, 2010Japan Information and Cultural Centre, Embassy of Japan (Wellington, New Zealand)
March 22 - April 11, 2010SOFA Gallery (Christchurch, New Zealand)
February 22 - March 4, 2010The Japan Foundation, Sydney Gallery (Sydney, Australia)
January 21 - 30, 2010Gallery Central (Perth, Australia)
October 1 - 30, 2009Canberra Institute of Technology Designspace (Canberra, Australia)
July 15 - August 4, 2009The Japan Foundation, Jakarta (Jakarta, Indonesia)
June 18 - July 5, 2009House of Sampoerna (Surabaya, Indonesia)
April 21 - May 12, 2009National Museum and Art Gallery (Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea)
February 10 - 24, 2009City Hall of the Greater Amman Municipality (Amman, Jordan)
September 3 - 28, 2008National History Museum of Latvia (Riga, Latvia)
August 3 - 17, 2008Alexandria Center of Arts (Alexandria, Egypt)
July 21 - 29, 2008El Sawy Culture Wheel (Cairo, Egypt)
July 3 - 17, 2008Mubarak Public Library (Cairo, Egypt)
April 4 - May 17, 2008The Japanese Cultural Institute in Rome (Rome, Italy)
February 14 - March 5, 2008Tashkent House of Photography, Academy of Arts of Uzbekistan (Tashkent, Uzbekistan)
September 7 - November 9, 2007The Japan Cultural Institute in Cologne (Cologne, Germany)
August 1 - 22, 2007Panevezys County Gabriele Petkevicaite-Bite Public Library Gallery
(Panevezys, Lithuania)
July 5 - 26, 2007Ukumerge Regional Studies Museum (Ukumerge, Lithuania)
June 7 - 29, 2007Gallery of Martynas Mazvydas National Library of Lithuania (Vilnius, Lithuania)
May 4 - June 3, 2007M.K. Ciurlionis National Art Museum, M.Zilinskas Art Gallery (Kaunas, Lithuania)
Daido Moriyama
Kariudo, 1972
Shomei Tomatsu
From the series, "Oh! Shinjuku" , 1969
Nobuyoshi Araki
From the sreries "SUBWAY LOVE", 1963-72
Masato Seto
From the series "picnic", 2004
George Hashiguchi
Rainy Sunday, from the series "The Look", 1981
Mitsugu Ohnishi
From the series "The Long Vacation", 1983-91
Tokuko Ushioda
From the series "Ice Box", 1988
Kazuo Kitai
Elementary School Students, from the series
"To the
village", 1974
Hiromi Tsuchida
Oiso 1981, from the series
"Counting Grains of Sand",
1981
Hiroh Kikai
A Performer of Butoh dance, from the series "Persona" ,
2001
Toshimi Kamiya
Higashi Kasai 9 Chome Arakawa bridge 1988, from the series "Mirabilitas
Tokyo", 1988
Toshio Shibata
Kuroiso City, Tochigi Pref., from the series "Quintessence
of Japan", 1989
Eiji Ina
Ikebukuro 1983, from the series "In Tokyo", 1983
Hitoshi Tsukiji
Osaka Shin-Osaka, from the series "Urban Perspectives",
1987-89
Shuji Yamada
Western Exit Square of Shinjuku Station, Tokyo, from the series "Nihon
mura" (Japan Village), 1969
Norio Kobayashi
From the series "Japanese Landscape"(Surburbs
of Tokyo), 1984
Yutaka Takanashi
Yodobashi, from the series "Genius Ioci, Tokyo",1997
Ryuji Miyamoto
Nagata-ku, from the series "KOBE 1995 After the Earthquake",1995
Akihide Tamura
From the series "AFTERNOON", 1969
Miyuki Ichikawa
Re: To_2, 2002
Risaku Suzuki
Sakura N-6, 2002
Takashi Homma
From the series "TOKYO SUBURBIA", 1995-98
Kikuji Kawada
The Last Sunrise of Showa Era. 7 Jan. 1989, Tokyo, from the series
" The Last Cosmology", 1989