Tokyo Before/After
This exhibition, created on the occasion of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, features a selection of approximately 80 works, in which works by photographers who had captured images of Tokyo in the 1930s-1940s are presented in juxtaposition with those taken after 2010.
We hope that the works of the Japanese photographers in this exhibition, through their specific imagery, will serve to encourage a deeper understanding of Tokyo as a vast city of many different faces.
Exhibition Curator
Kotaro Iizawa (photography critic)
Artists
Before: KOGA (Light Pictures), NIPPON, Kineo Kuwabara
After: Nobuyoshi Araki, Mika Ninagawa, Motoyuki Daifu, SATO Shintaro, Shinya Arimoto,
Natsumi Hayashi, Kenta Cobayashi, Daido Moriyama
Dates
2024 second semester Kyrgyzstan *TBC
2024 first semester Kazakhstan *TBC
January 23 - February 6, 2024
Rubén Darío National Theater (Managua, Nicaragua)
November 10 - December 3, 2023
Luis Miro Quesada Garland Hall (Lima, Peru)
August 11 - September 15, 2023
Cultural Center of UTU (Montevideo, Uruguay)
June 7‐July 5, 2023
Ahmed Shawky Museum(Cairo, Egypt)
November 13 - December 4, 2022 The Embassy of Japan in Iran (Tehran, Iran)
August 3 - 24, 2022
Archaeological Museum in Zagreb (Zagreb, Croatia)
June 27 - July 9, 2022
Gallery KORTIL (Rijeka, Croatia)

KOGA (Light Pictures), 1932

NIPPON, 1938

Nobuyoshi Araki, Tombeau Tokyo, 2016/2017
(c) Nobuyoshi Araki /Courtesy of Taka Ishii Gallery

Mika Ninagawa, TOKYO INNOCENCE, 2015
(c) mika ninagawa /Courtesy of TOMIO KOYAMA GALLERY

Motoyuki Daifu, Still Life, 2016
(c) Motoyuki Daifu /Courtesy of MISAKO & ROSEN

SATO Shintaro“Risen in the East” Asakusa, Taito Ward, April 10, 2011
(c) SATO Shintaro, Courtesy of PGI

Shinya Arimoto, TOKYO CIRCULATION, 2016
(c) Shinya Arimoto

Natsumi Hayashi, Today's Levitation 02/21/2011
(c) Natsumi Hayashi

Kenta Cobayashi, Untitled, #smudge #video, 2016
(c) Kenta Cobayashi /Courtesy of GP Gallery

Daido Moriyama“Dog and Mesh Tights” Silkscreen, 2018
(c) Daido Moriyama Photo Foundation
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