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30/11/2023

🇯🇵 日本語版の印刷がようやく上がって今日から製本開始。来年2月に平凡社より発売する予定です。The Japanese-language edition has printed and we’ve green-lit the sheets for binding. (What a process!) It will be available in Japan only from February 2024. Published by Heibonsha.

28/11/2023

Japanese Photography Magazines: 1880s to 1980s

by Kaneko Ryūichi, Toda Masako, Ivan Vartanian
with contributions by Fujii Yūko, Inokuchi Yoshio, Nariai Hajime, Soeno Tsutomu

ISBN: 978-4991276101
Hardcover, 28 x 25 cm (11.02 x 9.84 inches)
500 Pages, over 1,300 color images, 3.04kg (6.7 lbs.)
Words: approx. 200,000 words in English
Captions: Bilingual in English and Japanese 

This comprehensive volume is a 100-year history of Japanese photography presented through a broad selection of genre-defining photography magazines. 
Each featured article in this book is fully annotated, illustrated, and accompanied by an explanatory text written by leading scholars of the field. These texts introduce key concepts, terms, and important persons of this history. A broad selection of primary writings has been included as English translations throughout the volume. These writings and discussions by photographers, critics, poets, and editors provided a rich discourse that was essential for the development of Japanese photography. Providing essential background and context to some of the most iconic images in the field, such writings include texts by Araki Nobuyoshi, Fukase Masahisa, Hosoe Eikoh, Kawada Kikuji, Kimura Ihei, Moriyama Daido, Narahara Ikko, Yasui Nakaji, as well as writings by Tanikawa Shuntarō, Terayama Shūji, among many others. 

With over 1,300 illustrations across 500 pages, this book is an invaluable resource for researchers and students exploring Japan's unique photographic history.

13/11/2023

30/10/2023

The only perk of jet lag. Seeing the sun rise.

08/06/2023

Sitting at my desk and staring out the window. While I wait for an update from the shipping agent about the most recent delay, these two birds are keeping me company.

23/03/2023

It was a pleasure to speak with for her podcast Link in the bio.

Marine and I discuss the new book Japanese Photography Magazines, changes in the publishing industry, as well as some stories on how I wound up living in Japan for half my life.

I hope my New Yorker accent isn’t too annoying! It’s balanced by Marine’s very charming French accent.

Thank you, Marine! It was a pleasure.

03/02/2023

If you're in the Tokyo area, I recommend checking out these three photography exhibitions:

楢橋朝子作品展「春は曙」Asako Narahashi, Dawn in Spring PGI

川田喜久治個展「ロス・カプリチョス 遠近」Kikuji Kawada, "Los Caprichos, near far" ふげん社／Fugensha

潮田登久子「永遠のレッスン」 Tokuko Ushioda, "Lifelong Learning" at 横浜市民ギャラリーあざみ野

25/01/2023

From the June 1939 issue of a monthly publication called "Camera Club". Featured here, on the left page, Sakata Minoru, Four. On the right page: Shimozato Yoshio, Viviparous Balloon.

Featured in Japanese Photography Magazines, 1880s to 1980s. (link in bio)

06/01/2023

https://goliga.com/japanese-photography-magazines-1880s-to-1980s

Japanese Photography Magazines: 1880s to 1980s is a 100-year history told through camera and photography magazines. Masterpiece photobooks from Japan emerged from the culture of magazines. With over 1,300 illustrations, this book shows how magazines continually served as a genre-defining platform. Starting with the earliest camera-related publications in the 19th century through to the end of the magazine's golden era in the 1980s, this book immerses the reader into the work of well-established as well as overlooked photographers, representing a broad range of imagery and approaches. The book also features an ample amount of primary writings by photographers that were originally included in the magazine pages, providing essential background and context to some of the most iconic images in the field. Such writings include texts by Araki Nobuyoshi, Fukase Masahisa, Hosoe Eikoh, Kawada Kikuji, Kimura Ihei, Moriyama Daido, Narahara Ikko, Sako Kōichi, Yasui Nakaji, as well as writings by Tanikawa Shuntarō, Terayama Shūji, among many others. Each of the featured magazine stories are accompanied with authoritative historical information, which, as a whole, provides the reader with a balanced and nuanced survey of this history of Japanese photography. This gives the reader a grounding into the core concepts and vocabulary for understanding the definitive characteristic of photography from Japan. Almost all of the stories that are featured in this volume are reproduced in their entirety, making this volume an invaluable resource for researchers, collectors, general readers, and photography fans.

23/12/2022

Japanese Photography Magazines, 1880s to 1980s

Preorder pricing and free shipping campaign ends next week. Link in bio for details.

10/12/2022

M/E A brilliant show!