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

November 8, 2018 - January 20, 2019
National Museum of World Cultures (Mexico City, Mexico)

August 29 - September 29, 2018
The Japan Foundation, Los Angeles (Los Angeles, U.S.A)

July 20 - August 11, 2018
Gerry Thomas Gallery (Calgary, Canada)

April 11 - July 11, 2018
The Japan Foundation, Toronto (Toronto, Canada)

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