Ginza Nikon Salon - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Ginza Nikon Salon. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
Izumi Matsumoto Exhibition
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[1]- Media: Photography
- 2008-10-29 - 2008-11-11
For Matsumoto, festivals in Japan feel little different from everyday life. Perhaps because the original atmosphere of these festivals has thinned over the years and become a part of that everyday, or (...)
Manabu Someya "Hot Spring Town"
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- 2008-10-15 - 2008-10-28
When Someya was a child, he was taken along on a holiday trip sponsored by his mother's company. Although he has forgotten where they went, he still remembers the stifling humidity of that late summer, (...)
Kazuhiko Washio "Far East Hotel"
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- 2008-10-01 - 2008-10-14
A simple lodge meant for foreign travelers in Tokyo's Taito ward, in a town that used to be called Yamaya. These portraits taken by Washio were all shot in this one hotel - portraits of travelers, lowly-paid (...)
Hideki Onuma Exhibition
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- 2008-09-17 - 2008-09-30
On April 1st 1945, around 548,000 American troops and 1500 battleships landed on the central western coast of the main island of Okinawa. This attempt to capture Okinawa was nicknamed Operation Iceberg. (...)
Hiroshi Watanabe "Ideology in Paradise"
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- 2008-09-03 - 2008-09-16
Watching a program dealing with the problem of hostages and abductions in North Korean on TV three years ago, the artist saw some photograph projected onto the screen. This was part of a series of photographs (...)
Keiko Sasaoka Exhibition
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- 2008-08-20 - 2008-09-02
The artist, who was born and raised in the suburbs outside Hiroshima, naturally became aware of the significance of August 6th from a young age, assuming also that all of Japan and even the world knew (...)
Russell Scott Peagler "Dear Passengers"
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- 2008-08-06 - 2008-08-19
The title of this exhibition, "Dear Passengers", is a phrase broadcast countless times at the beginning of announcements on the train from Beijing to Lhasa. This exhibition features works that express (...)
Yoshitaka Kurashige "Tochio Hometown Days"
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- 2008-07-23 - 2008-08-05
Masashi Asada "The Asadas"
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- 2008-07-09 - 2008-07-22
Asada creates situational self-portraits of his own family, confronting new possibilities in photography by looking at the interrelationships between performance roles and actual positions and configurations (...)
Kazuo Taira "Brussels: City At the Crossroads of Europe"
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- 2008-06-25 - 2008-07-08
Taira has spent 10 years living in the Belgian capital of Brussels since 1995, taking photographs of the lives of its people. Belgium has a surface area roughly equal to that of Kyushu and a population (...)
Noboru Hama "Vacant Land 1989"
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- 2008-06-11 - 2008-06-24
After the Plaza Agreement of 1985, the bubble economy in Japan expanded and bloated rapidly until its eventual collapse in 1989. This exhibition records the plots of vacant land in its wake, left marooned (...)
Tsuneichi Miyamoto "Japan: Tsuneichi Miyamoto - Walking Around, 1962-1964"
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- 2008-05-28 - 2008-06-10
Folklorist Tsuneichi Miyamoto once said of the artist Ryotaro Shiba that nobody knows the land and terrain of Japan as intimately and exhaustively as him. Miyamoto himself traveled far and wide in Japan (...)
Kenshichi Heshiki "Goat Lung: Okinawa 1968-2005"
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- 2008-05-14 - 2008-05-27
Goats are the spitting image of Okinawa. Although they have a mild temper and a fairly gentle personality, they are killed and eaten in the end for their fine flavor. The title of the exhibition is a sort (...)
Hiromi Tsuchida "Hiromi Tsuchida's Japan"
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- 2008-04-30 - 2008-05-13
The award-winning works in this exhibition come from the photo exhibition "Hiromi Tsuchida's Japan" (Dec 2007-Feb 2008) held at the Museum of Photography, Tokyo, which showcased the life and artistic pursuits (...)
Yasushi Matsumoto "Neutral Scapes"
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- 2008-04-16 - 2008-04-29
This exhibition documents Matsumoto's personal responses to certain places. These places are ones that seem to have a particular sense of openness to the world, through which air flows freely, without (...)
Masako Oguri "Tonuppu"
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- 2008-04-02 - 2008-04-15
A small country village cradled in its little remote setting in the Tohoku area of northern Japan. This is a place with a radically different conception of time, slowly carved into its character by its (...)
Hiroshi Osaka "Tree Spirits"
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- 2008-03-19 - 2008-04-01
Old trees are said to have a kind of life force and spirit that far surpasses the brevity of human life, living on in perpetuity. Sacred trees have also been an object of faith and devotion since ancient (...)
Miki Hirose "Requiem Great Tokyo Air Raids"
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- 2008-03-05 - 2008-03-18
Almost 100,000 people perished in the air raids over Tokyo 62 years ago. In these 55 monochrome works taken over several years, Miki captured almost 90 burial sites where those victims have been laid to (...)
Eri Makita "Visual Convergence"
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- 2008-02-20 - 2008-03-04
Tokumasa Terada "'Encyclopedia II' Dai-Ni Tomei Construction Site"
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- 2008-02-06 - 2008-02-19
Taku Aramasa "Aramasa Sakura"
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- 2008-01-23 - 2008-02-05
Masayo Ito "Happiness Theory"
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- 2008-01-04 - 2008-01-22
Seiichi Enomoto "Eternal Time: The Island of Sardinia"
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- 2007-12-12 - 2007-12-28
Chiari Endo "Under The Sky: Columbia, South America"
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- 2007-11-28 - 2007-12-11
This photographer went to Colombia's second largest city Medizin, in 2004 to visit a friend. According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' guide on traveling abroad, the country was designated as a dangerous (...)
Hiroshi Suga "Amami: Life on an Island"
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- 2007-11-14 - 2007-11-27
Masato Seto "Binran"
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- 2007-10-31 - 2007-11-13
In Taiwan, there is a custom to chew the seeds of palm trees, which are called "binran." This custom was probably imported from Southeast Asia or South Pacific islands. This exhibition features photographs (...)
Hiromi Watanabe "Early Works - The Season of United Struggle 1968-69"
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- 2007-10-17 - 2007-10-30
1968 was a year that shook the world with the escalation of the Vietnam war, the assignations of Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy, and the student protests in Paris. In 1968, Hiromi Watanabe was walking (...)
Shinichiro Kobayashi "Final Factory"
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- 2007-10-03 - 2007-10-16
Naoki Ishikawa "New Dimension"
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- 2007-09-19 - 2007-10-02
Hiroo Kikai "Tokyo Dream Narrative"
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- 2007-09-05 - 2007-09-18
In the thirty years since the photographer took an interest in this medium, he has been photographing the people he meets in the Asakusa area of Tokyo and photographing street scenes. His portraits are (...)
Hirohiko Ikeda "At Negev"
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- 2007-08-22 - 2007-09-04
This is an exhibition of photographs of the Negev Desert in Israel, where the artist lived for a year. 25 color prints and 10 black and white prints will be on display.
Eimu Arino "Nameless Earth Works - American Edition"
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- 2007-08-08 - 2007-08-21
In contemporary art, there are artists who have dug the earth, collected it, inspected it and created 'works' by carving their own ideas into it. These works are called "earth works". However, when one (...)
Takeshi Shikama "Silent Respiration of Forests"
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- 2007-07-25 - 2007-08-07
On evening in the autumn of 2001, the photographer got lost in the mountains, and upon wandering into a small, dark forest, he felt he wanted to take photos. The following day, he took his camera and went (...)
Riki Kashiwabara "Vastness - Neverending Memories and Visions"
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- 2007-07-11 - 2007-07-24
This photographer has restored a variety of different types of box cameras that were popular in the 1910s, and uses them to take atmospheric photographs of landscapes.
Haruhiko Shimauchi "Mexico, Sonora, Landscapes"
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- 2007-06-27 - 2007-07-10
Sonora state is in the north of Mexico, bordering with the United States. 7 years ago, the photographer visited a friend there and while travelling down the highway that runs through the state from north (...)
Hitoshi Uemoto "Oil"
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- 2007-06-13 - 2007-06-26
The photographer lives in the industrialized belt along the shore of the Seto Inland Sea. With the "peak oil" phenomenon and the inevitable need to switch to clean energy in the near future, our energy-dependent (...)
Suvendu Chatterjee "Manipur"
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- 2007-05-30 - 2007-06-12
Tokyo Photography Month: Asian Photographers - India Manipur is a small state in India's east, far from the centre of the country, defined by a large mountain belt occupying half of its area and a long (...)
Kazumasa Suda "Japanese Sceneries"
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- 2007-05-16 - 2007-05-29
Following the end of the war, this photographer's objective was a simple one: to find food to eat, alcohol to drink and live life to the full. Everybody was working towards that aim at the time. However, (...)
Manichi News 26th Domon Prizewinner Exhibition "Ikuo Nakamura - 27,000 hours of Travelling the Sea"
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- 2007-05-02 - 2007-05-15
"27,000 hours Travelling the Sea" is Ikuo Nakamura's most important body of work, depicting the cycle of life in Tokyo Bay.
Fusako Kodama Exhibition
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- 2007-04-18 - 2007-05-01
In 1992, the photographer produced a book entitled "Tokyo - One Thousand Years Later", which depicted Japanese youth in the post-Bubble years with those of the future. The structure of the economy has (...)
Ryu Hanabusa "The Kingdom of Beauty"
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- 2007-04-04 - 2007-04-17
Hanabusa uses photography to express the microcosmos of the art museum, capturing the beauty portrayed in Greek, Italian and French sculptures of the human body and paintings of nudes. Investigating both (...)
Toyotaka Shindo "Return to the 21st Century - Part 5"
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- 2007-03-21 - 2007-04-03
The film "Letters from Iwojima", portraying both the American and Japanese perspectives on the Pacific War is currently a box-office hit. However, what is not well known is that there were many second (...)
Hiroshi Watanabe "I See Angels Every Day"
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- 2007-03-07 - 2007-03-20
On a summer's day in July 2001, the photographer visited San Lazaro Psychiatric Hospital. There were many patients, some walking around, some sleeping, others just sitting on their beds. All of a sudden (...)
Keizo Katajima "USSR 1991"
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- 2007-02-21 - 2007-03-06
The exhibition features photographs taken intermittently during the artist's 150 day stay in the Soviet Union when it collapsed in 1991. When the artist first visited the country, he had no idea that it (...)
Akinori Kajisako "Minha Vida (Private Life)"
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- 2007-02-14 - 2007-02-20
Although the artist had never had the desire to live abroad, it has been 15 years since moving to Brazil. Throughout the both long and short 15 years, he has traveled to various places, and experienced (...)
Atsushi Sato "Father Time's Apocalypse"
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- 2007-01-31 - 2007-02-13
Atsushi Sato travelled around the western United States, such as Arizona, New Mexico, Montana and Wyoming, making a photographic documentary of the buildings in former coal mining towns, and the ruins (...)
Fumihiko Kato "Yakushima - River and Source"
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- 2007-01-24 - 2007-01-30
This exhibition features 44 black and white photographs taken in the valleys of Yakushima.
Etsuko Kasagi "Two Times, Manchurian Edition"
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- 2007-01-17 - 2007-01-23
The "Two Times" series, which the artist began after the death of her mother in 1998, is an attempt to create a "third view" by juxtaposing coloured photos of 'now', and black and white photos of her mother's (...)
Tsuneo Enari "The Hour of Life and Death"
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- 2007-01-04 - 2007-01-16
Tsuneo Enari will celebrate his 70 birthday this year. For the past 30 years, he has taken the spirituality of postwar Japan as a theme by examining life and death in the "15 year war of Showa" (World (...)
Nikon Salon 1968-2006 Special Exhibition: Parts I - IV
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- 2006-10-07 - 2006-12-28
To mark its move to "Strata Ginza" in Ginza's 7-chome, the gallery is holding this four-part exhibition, spanning two and a half months. Ginza Nikon Salon was established in 1968 and over the 38 years (...)
Toyoko Sano Exhibition
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- 2006-10-03 - 2006-10-09
Oshino is a town situated 1000 metres above sea level on the lava plateau at the foot of Mt Fuji, where there has been human settlement since the Jomon period. This exhibition presents 40 black and white (...)
Tadasuke Akiyama "Intersection 2000-2005 Dreamland VI"
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- 2006-09-19 - 2006-09-30
The artist believes that cities are neither good nor bad, that they are merely mirrors which reflect the spirit of the age, and he aims to capture this on film. Growing up with that way of looking at the (...)
Yang Seung Woo "Mr Daruma Falls Down"
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- 2006-09-04 - 2006-09-16
61 black and white photographs.
Ko Eun Jeong "The Tale of Birds, My Saishu"
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- 2006-08-21 - 2006-09-02
This is an exhibition of 35-40 monochrome photographs taken in Saishu Island, revealing the history and culture which its inhabitants have cultivated generation after generation.
All Japan Photo Exhibition 2006
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- 2006-08-07 - 2006-08-12
The theme of this exhibition, organised by the All-Japan Assocation of Photographic Societies, is the portrayal of the various ways of life that surround us, be it prostitution, politics or economics; (...)
Hiromi Tsuchida "Hiroshima 2005 - 60 years on"
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- 2006-07-24 - 2006-08-05
An exhibition of photographs by Hiromi Tsuchida, who has made photographing Hiroshima his life's work since the 1970s.
Shinichiro Kobayashi "Corpse Theater"
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- 2006-07-10 - 2006-07-22
This exhibition presents 50 original color prints from the "Corpse Theater" series of Kobayashi's work.
Aya Fujioka "I Don't Sleep"
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- 2006-06-26 - 2006-07-08
The photographs in this exhibition mostly show the photographer's hometown, exploring the subtleties that lie in the scenery of her daily life there.
Yoshinori Matsuno "Going Upstream - Scenes from Tamagawa 2001~2005"
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- 2006-06-12 - 2006-06-24
Tama River is the only natural river to flow through the city of Tokyo. Just as it is said that the Shimanto River in Kochi Prefecture is the last clear river in Japan, many rivers in this country have (...)
Hiro Ishikawa "The Time When Flowers Bloom"
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- 2006-05-29 - 2006-06-10
The artist "makes" flowers with his camera. By photographing flowers at a given moment in time, he creates flowers that will last an eternity. And by choosing the inorganic material of concrete as background, (...)
Yukio Watanabe "Sanbanse Tideland - Views at Low Tide”
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- 2006-05-15 - 2006-05-27
Sanbanse is situated in the innermost reaches of Tokyo Bay. Around it, the metropolis of Tokyo unfolds, the population of which exceeds 30 million. Much of that population's waste is spilled into the bay. (...)
Hideaki Uchiyama "Japan Underground III - Toyko Demon"
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- 2006-04-24 - 2006-05-13
"Japan Underground III" is the concluding part of the "Japan Underground" series of work by the artist, who has spent 13 years photographing worlds beneath Tokyo. He photographs and compiles places such (...)
Shisei Kuwabara "Portraits of Minamata"
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- 2006-04-10 - 2006-04-22
May 1st is the 50th anniversary of the public acknowledgement of the Minamata disease. About 45 years have passed since he started photographing Minamata and in that time, magazines, newspapers and books (...)
Takayoshi Yasujima "Ogasawaru Sleeping in the Dark"
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- 2006-03-27 - 2006-04-08
At the end of the Pacific War, a fierce battle unfolded between the American army and the Ogasawara corps of the Japanese army led by general Kuribayashi on Iwojima island. Even now in America, this small (...)
Yasuhiro Ogawa "Slowly Down The River"
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- 2006-03-13 - 2006-03-25
This exhibition is about the construction of the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River in China. Started in 1993, this dam is now known the world over as the world's biggest hydroelectric dam, capable (...)
Hiroo Kikai "Persona"
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- 2006-02-27 - 2006-03-11
Kikai uses monochrome film to take portraits of people around him. "Persona" is part of his "Portraits of Kings" series and "Ya Chimata" series.
Takashi Nakagawa "Border Line - Arizona Nevada"
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- 2006-02-13 - 2006-02-25
Nakagawa Takashi traveled across 12 states of the American continent with a large format camera. In one week he would drive around with a rental car and shoot his pictures. Each day he would travel on (...)
Takeshi Takeda "Great Yangtze River"
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- 2006-01-30 - 2006-02-10
The great Yangtze River in China has attracted a lot of attention from historians as the area where rice cultivation originated. For five years from 1997, the artist visited various ancient archaeological (...)
Kunihiro Suzuki "Ash and Memory"
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- 2006-01-16 - 2006-01-28
During the Pacific War in Asia during world war II, thousands of Chinese people were carted off to Japan to be used as slave labourers. The photographs on display are of the survivors and the conditions (...)
Nobuyuki Oku "aura"
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- 2006-01-04 - 2006-01-14
Painting and closely looking at the model, switching rapidly between both, often leads an artist to lose sense of time, as if the brush was going its own way. A kind of magical and spiritual relationship (...)
Michio Oozeki "Creatures Through a Kaleidoscope"
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- 2005-12-12 - 2005-12-24
One day, Michio Oozeki wanted to look at flowers through a kaleidoscope, but he couldn't watch them properly without bringing the kaleidoscope so close that its shadow would cloud the view. Then he came (...)
Eiichi Onodera "Day by day"
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- 2005-11-28 - 2005-12-10
Until two exhibitions ago ("That Time"), Eiichi Onodera was the kind of photographer that would decide the theme before the actual shooting. His previous exhibition, "Air", showcased work not linked together (...)
Teruo Ogawa Exhibition - "A Train with a View / as taken from the Keiyo-line"
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- 2005-11-14 - 2005-11-26
After putting an end to his salaryman existence, Teruo Ogawa is currently enjoying a second lifetime. The JR Keiyo Line that travels along Tokyo Bay's landfill area and connects Tokyo with Chiba, is a (...)
Hitoshi Uemoto Exhibition
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- 2005-10-31 - 2005-11-12
Reiko Shibata "Baby Boomer Women - The Angel's Plumage"
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- 2005-10-17 - 2005-10-29
Reiko Shibata was born during the baby boom of the post-war era, when national and global population numbers and birth rates rocketed. The women of that generation spent their youth during the turbulent (...)
Chieko Aoyama "Shining Sound III - Thailand"
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- 2005-10-03 - 2005-10-15
Chieko Aoyama loves traveling. Not because she is unsatisfied with her environment, but because she enjoys being all by herself, surrounded by strangers and foreign sounds. Amidst all this unfamiliarity, (...)
Onuma Hideki - Uchinaaguchi
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- 2005-09-20 - 2005-10-01
Okinawa is the only place where they had ground battles during World War II and its land was covered by blood. More than 200,000 people are estimated to have been killed during the battles in Okinawa and, (...)
Koichi Nakakomi
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- 2005-09-05 - 2005-09-17
Contemporary people are fulfilled materially, but their soul is missing something, Koichi Nakakomi. Drawn to the strong aura of lonely and melancholic-looking people, he photographs them, often at point-blank (...)
Yeook Park "The People of Laguna"
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- 2005-03-14 - 2005-03-26
An exhibition of 40 black and white photographs capturing the lives of the people living in the small town of Laguna, Philippines.
Koichi Osajima
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- 2005-02-14 - 2005-02-26
A photography exhibition with the premise that the "backyard", while being the most familiar landscape, is perhaps the most Japanese of all spaces and the most revealing of the Japanese lifestyle.
Ichiro Kikuchi Photography Exhibition "Sign"
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- 2005-01-31 - 2005-02-12
An exhibition of 45 monochrome photographs by Ichiro Kikuchi, of scars and traces made by man upon Japanese landscapes.
Shozo Tabuchi Photography Exhibition
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- 2004-12-13 - 2004-12-25
An exhibition dedicated to photographs of parents and their children.
Families - Five Years from the Great Taiwan Earthquake
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- 2004-11-29 - 2004-12-11
Juxtaposition of portraits, of families in Taiwan immediately after the earthquake on September 21, 1999 and five years after.
Mitsuhiko Kondo
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- 2004-11-15 - 2004-11-27
An exhibition of large-format photographs of scrapped cars found in various parts of Japan, spectacularizing the deteriorating "sites" of abandonment.
Hirotaka Kasuga
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- 2004-11-01 - 2004-11-13
25 digitally-enhanced, large-format landscape photographs of the American West, capturing the flow of life and the notion of existence and time within the untouched vastness.
Koji Masumoto
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- 2004-10-18 - 2004-10-30
Photographs pursuing "death" and "sadness and acknowledgment" that take rise in looking at photographs.
Tadasuke Akiyama "Zone"
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- 2004-10-04 - 2004-10-16
An exhibition of color photographs documenting a new world of new species located in the 40 km radius of Tokyo, where crime has turned into a normalized aspect of their lives.
Etsuko Kasagi "Kaohsiung Taipei 1928-2003"
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