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Tokyo Before/After
While interest in Tokyo continues to grow throughout the world in anticipation of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, this exhibition 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
2023 first semester Egypt *TBC
2022 second semester Iran *TBC
2022 first semester Croatia *TBC
February 7 - 27, 2022
The Omani Society of Arts (Muscat, Oman)
October 22 - December 10, 2021
The Japan Cultural Institute in Cologne (Cologne, Germany)
June 21 - 27, 2021
Artetage Museum (Vladivostok, Russia)
May 7 - 21, 2021
The Far-Eastern Museum (Khabarovsk, Russia)
April 2 – 26, 2021
Sakhalin Regional Art Museum (Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russia)
October 2 - November 7, 2020
Schneider Hall Galleries (Louisville, U.S.A.)
January 25 - March 22, 2020
Caixa Cultural Sao Paulo (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
November 14, 2019 - January 5, 2020
Torre Malakoff (Recife, Brazil)
August 6 - September 15, 2019
Caixa Cultural (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
June 25 - July 21, 2019
Parana Museum/Museu Paranaense (Curitiba, Brazil)
May 9 - June 9, 2019
Caixa Cultural (Brasilia, Brazil)
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
