Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
"Quest for Vision Vol. 4: Beyond the Naked Eye" Exhibition
[53][13]- Media: Photography - Prints
- 2011-12-13 - 2012-01-29
4th installment in a series of exhibitions based on the theme of expansion and contraction, featuring works that examine how the realm of the visible has been expanded over the years, changing the way...More »
"Street Life" Exhibition
[61][16]- Media: Photography
- 2011-12-10 - 2012-01-29
This exhibition showcases the tradition of social documentary photography that emerged in England, Germany and France between the late 19th century and the early 20th century. Unlike the American documentary...More »
"Contemporary Japanese Photography Vol. 10" Exhibition
[73][17]- Media: Photography
- 2011-12-10 - 2012-01-29
This year marks the tenth exhibition in the series entitled "Contemporary Japanese Photography" and in it we will introduce the work of five photographers who resort to some of the most fundamental photographic...More »
Naoya Hatakeyama "Natural Stories"
[113][27]- Media: Photography
- 2011-10-01 - 2011-12-04
The Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography is proud to announce the opening of Naoya Hatakeyama: Natural Stories, an exhibition of the work of one of Japan’s leading, internationally renowned, photographers....More »
"Photographs of Children: The Child Within Us" Exhibition
[20][3]- Media: Photography
- 2011-09-24 - 2011-12-04
This exhibition seeks to unravel the essence of our contemporary psyche through photos of children. [Image: Rinko Kawauchi, "Untitled" from "Utatane" (2001)]More »
Hiroh Kikai "Tokyo Portraits"
[34][5]- Media: Photography
- 2011-08-13 - 2011-10-02
Born in 1945 in Yamagata prefecture, Hiroh Kikai studied philosophy at university and then worked as a truck driver, crew member of a tuna fishing boat and various other odd jobs. An encounter with the...More »
Tsuneo Enari "Japan and Its Forgotten War"
[17][3]- Media: Photography
- 2011-07-23 - 2011-09-25
Tsuneo Enari was born in Kanagawa in 1936. After working as a press photographer for Mainichi Newspaper, Enari turned freelance in 1974. His work represents an ongoing attempt to document the social upheaval...More »
"Photographs of Children: The Art of Photographing Children" Exhibition
[21][5]- Media: Photography
- 2011-07-16 - 2011-09-19
When photography was first invented in the 19th century, the existing daguerrotype technology was incapable of capturing instantaneous moments, with the result that children who constantly fidgeted always...More »
"World Press Photo 2011" Exhibition
[66][6]- Media: Photography
- 2011-06-11 - 2011-08-07
The annual exhibition looks at press photographs taken in the last year all over the world. Every year the contest is held in Amsterdam and this edition saw 125 countries and territories, and 5691 photographers...More »
36th Japan Photographers Society Exhibition
[2][0]- Media: Photography
- 2011-05-21 - 2011-06-05
This year marks the 36th edition of the Japan Photographers Society exhibition, whose host organization was founded in 1950.More »
"Photographs of Children: War and Children" Exhibition
[16][9]- Media: Photography
- 2011-05-14 - 2011-07-10
The Photographs of Children exhibition will consist of works from the Museum’s collection, ranging from the earliest days of photography in the nineteenth century to the present day, dealing with the subject...More »
Josef Koudelka "Invasion 68: Prague"
[90][23]- Media: Photography
- 2011-05-14 - 2011-07-18
Josef Koudelka is a pioneer of the photo-documentary genre who is still active today and the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography and The Asahi Shimbun are delighted to present an exhibition of his...More »
Bettina Rheims "Made in Paradise"
[74][10]- Media: Photography
- 2011-03-26 - 2011-05-15
A former model and journalist, Bettina Rheims launched her career as a photographer in 1976. While her portraits of female subjects are infused with an expressiveness and gravity all her own, Rheims has...More »
"Masterpieces of Japanese Pictorial Photography" Exhibition
[46][10]- Media: Photography
- 2011-03-08 - 2011-05-08
This exhibition showcases some 120 works produced between the late Meiji period and the 1930s, in addition to valuable archival materials that shed light on Japanese modes of pictorial expression. See...More »
"The Dawn of Japanese Photography" Exhibition
[15][6]- Media: Photography
- 2011-03-08 - 2011-05-08
This exhibition will present photographs dating from 1853 to 1900 belonging to institutions with exhibition facilities in Shikoku, Kyushu and Okinawa, offering the chance to see some of the earliest photographs...More »
"APA Award 2011" Exhibition
[5][0]- Media: Photography
- 2011-03-05 - 2011-03-20
Selected works from the Japan Advertising Photographers Association's APA Award 2011.More »
3rd Yebisu International Festival for Art and Alternative Visions
[62][17]- Media: Installation - Film - Video installation - Art Talk
- 2011-02-18 - 2011-02-27
The Yebisu International Festival for Art and Alternative Visions is an annual ten-day festival of exhibitions, screenings, live events, lectures and talks that examine the development of film and video...More »
"Asia and Life: Visual Storytelling" Talk
[2][0]- Media: Art Talk
- 2011-02-12 - 2011-02-12
This event brings together photographers and editors working on a publishing project that focuses on photojournalism and documentary photography, based on a "visual storytelling" approach in Asian countries. Reservations:...More »
"Quest for Vision Vol. 3" Exhibition
[89][14]- Media: Photography - Installation
- 2010-12-21 - 2011-02-13
This third edition in a series of annual exhibitions focusing on a different theme each year deals with stereopsis. On display are contemporary artworks that make use of this principle along with primitive...More »
"Snapshots Cast Their Spell: Radiant Moments" Exhibition
[82][15]- Media: Photography
- 2010-12-11 - 2011-02-06
The snapshot seizes the moment, grasping the depths of the human heart, the subtlest of feelings, even the ambience of the setting. The snapshot style is unique to photography and unattainable in other...More »
"Contemporary Japanese Photography Vol. 9: Radiant Moments" Exhibition
[67][20]- Media: Photography
- 2010-12-11 - 2011-02-06
The Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography is committed to supporting creativity that engages the possibilities of photography and imaging. We thus organize a variety of exhibitions every year to showcase...More »
"11th Ueno Hikoma Award" Exhibition
[1][0]- Media: Photography
- 2010-12-04 - 2010-12-12
On display are award-winning works submitted to the 11th Ueno Hikoma Award, a photo contest organized by Kyushu Sangyo University that seeks to nurture and develop new photographic talent for the 21st...More »
"New Cosmos of Photography Tokyo Exhibition 2010"
[54][11]- Media: Photography
- 2010-11-06 - 2010-11-28
This year marks the 20th anniversary of Canon's "New Cosmos of Photography" program, designed to nurture and support young emerging photographers. On display at this exhibition are prize-winning works...More »
21st Japan Photographers Association Exhibition
[4][0]- Media: Photography
- 2010-10-16 - 2010-10-31
21st installment of exhibition by the Japan Photographers Association, featuring more than 180 works. Also on display are 166 award-winning works submitted through an open call process.More »
"Human Images of 20th Century: All Photographs are Portraits" Exhibition
[66][15]- Media: Photography
- 2010-10-09 - 2010-12-05
This exhibition showcases 20th century photographic portraits that include surrealistic works, social documentary pieces, urban snapshots and advertising and fashion photography. [Image: Michiko Kon,...More »
"Love’s Body: Art in the Age of AIDS" Exhibition
[96][19]- Media: Photography
- 2010-10-02 - 2010-12-05
The 'Love's Body - Rethinking Naked and Nude in Photography' exhibition which was held at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography from November 1998 to January 1999 was received with great acclaim....More »
"Homage to Cinema" Exhibition
[9][2]- Media: Illustration - Drawing - Art Talk
- 2010-09-04 - 2010-10-11
The legendary film director Akira Kurosawa aspired to be a painter as a teenager, but eventually turned to filmmaking while pouring his creative energy into creating the storyboards that were an essential...More »
"Onna: Japan Professional Photographers Society 60th Anniversary Exhibition"
[8][3]- Media: Photography - Art Party
- 2010-08-14 - 2010-08-29
The Japan Professional Photographers Society celebrates its 60th anniversary this year with this special exhibition covering almost 60 years of visual history, with a focus on Japanese women who helped...More »
"Look at me! Portrait Photographs of Nude" Exhibition
[70][15]- Media: Photography - Art Talk
- 2010-07-31 - 2010-10-03
Shortly after its invention the daguerreotype was used to create a photograph of a nude. In the paintings of the time, however, actual people were never portrayed in the nude, the pictures depicting anonymous...More »
Yuki Onodera "Into the Labyrinth of Photography"
[71][22]- Media: Photography
- 2010-07-27 - 2010-09-26
Based in Paris, Yuki Onodera (born 1962) is an internationally-active photographer who mastered photographic techniques through self-study. Onodera first rose to prominence in photographic circles in 1991...More »
"World Press Photo 2010" Exhibition
[70][9]- Media: Photography
- 2010-06-12 - 2010-08-08
World Press Photo is an independent, nonprofit organization based in The Netherlands that supports and promotes professional press photographers from around the world. It also organizes an annual world...More »
35th Japan Photographers Society Exhibition
[6][0]- Media: Photography
- 2010-05-22 - 2010-06-06
This year marks the 35th edition of the Japan Photographers Society exhibition, whose host organization was founded in 1950.More »
"The Samurai & I: Early Portrait Photographs" Exhibition
[22][6]- Media: Photography
- 2010-05-15 - 2010-07-25
‘The Samurai & I - Early Portrait Photographs’ exhibition will feature works from the collection of the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, showing the rich world of portraiture that existed...More »
Seiichi Furuya "Mémoires."
[96][29]- Media: Photography
- 2010-05-15 - 2010-07-19
The ‘Seiichi Furuya: Mémoires.’ exhibition will introduce the long-running ‘Mémoires’ series by the photographer Seiichi Furuya, who is based in Graz, Austria. It will focus on portrait photographs he...More »
Jeanloup Sieff "Unseen & Best Works"
[64][15]- Media: Photography - Art Talk
- 2010-03-27 - 2010-05-16
It has been 10 years since the sudden death of Jeanloup Sieff. This exhibition features works from Sieff's early career as a photographer in the 1950s, his 1960s New York work for Harper's Bazaar and more....More »
Yasumasa Morimura "Requiem for Something - Art at the Summit of the Battlefield"
[123][30]- Media: Photography - Film
- 2010-03-11 - 2010-05-09
Since the 1980s, Yasumasa Morimura has been producing a series of photographic self-portraits that feature himself dressed up as characters from famous paintings, well-known film actresses and so on. This...More »
2nd Yebisu International Festival for Art and Alternative Visions
[15][6]- Media: Photography - Film - Video installation - Art Talk
- 2010-02-19 - 2010-02-28
The Yebisu International Festival for Art and Alternative Visions is an annual event that will fill the entire Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography building with ten days of exhibitions, screening...More »
Mother Theresa 100th Anniversary Film Festival
[2][1]- Media: Film
- 2010-01-16 - 2010-02-14
A film festival celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Mother Theresa. This event, a world's-first, gathers a huge collection of documentaries about her life, providing visitors with a chance...More »
"Dynamic Images - Takashi Ishida and Abstract Animation" Exhibition
[36][7]- Media: Video installation - Media Arts - Art Talk
- 2009-12-22 - 2010-02-07
This exhibition presents the world of abstract animation. Describing the principles of animation, the exhibits on display will present a world that is different from the popular character animations, with...More »
"Departure - Travels of 6 Artists" Exhibition
[92][19]- Media: Photography - Video installation
- 2009-12-19 - 2010-02-07
This exhibition presents the works of young photographers and video makers on the theme of "traveling". The scenes captured by them are diverse and include images from Japan and abroad, urban and rural...More »
"Hikoma Ueno Award - Kyushu Sangyo University Photography Contest" Exhibition
[3][1]- Media: Photography
- 2009-12-05 - 2009-12-13
On view are works by award winners of the photography contest established in honor of the "father of photography" in Japan Hikoma Ueno to seek the young talents of the 21st century. More »
"Ihee Kimura and Henri Cartier-Bresson" Exhibition
[114][24]- Media: Photography
- 2009-11-28 - 2010-02-07
Despite living and working in different continents, Ihee Kimura and Henri Cartier-Bresson have equal importance as photographers that have opened the possibilities of modern photographic expression. They...More »
New Cosmos of Photography Tokyo Exhibition 2009
[21][3]- Media: Photography
- 2009-11-07 - 2009-11-29
The New Cosmos of Photography competition is organized by Canon as part of its program of support for cultural activities. This year marks its 19th installment, with more than 1340 submissions. This...More »
Sebastião Salgado "Africa"
[26][4]- Media: Photography
- 2009-10-24 - 2009-12-13
Sebastião Salgado, a pioneer of the photo-documentary genre, is still active today. The Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography is delighted to present an exhibition of his latest work, entitled ‘Africa’. In...More »
Keizo Kitajima "1975-1991"
[44][11]- Media: Photography - Art Talk
- 2009-08-29 - 2009-10-18
Keizo Kitajima made a sensational debut with the exhibition "BC Street Okinawa" in 1975. He received the prestigious Ihee Kimura prize in 1983 with his book "New York" and has actively sought new subjects...More »
Koichi Inakoshi Exhibition
[25][7]- Media: Photography - Art Talk
- 2009-08-20 - 2009-10-12
The photographic depictions of a private everyday world by Koichi Inakoshi (1941-2009) that drew increasing attention from the end of the 1960s, have introduced a new style to Japanese photography. Inakoshi...More »
Georges Bigot Exhibition
[20][4]- Media: Photography - Prints - Art Talk
- 2009-07-11 - 2009-08-23
French painter Georges Bigot (1860-1927) arrived in Japan at the beginning of the Meiji era. He drew the rapidly modernizing Japan curiously and amiably to present it to the Western world. Books such as...More »
"World Press Photo Exhibition 2009"
[60][10]- Media: Photography - Art Talk
- 2009-06-13 - 2009-08-09
The show will display again this year the works that have received prizes at "World Press Photo Contest" in the Netherlands that has been held yearly since 1955. This contest is open to all professional...More »
Museum Collection "Travel" Exhibition
[53][14]- Media: Photography
- 2009-05-16 - 2009-11-23
Travel has long been a deep-rooted theme of photography. In Japan, ever since photography was introduced at the end of the Edo period, many works that are deeply related to the theme of travel have been...More »
"Press Cameraman Story" Exhibition
[16][5]- Media: Photography - Other
- 2009-05-16 - 2009-07-05
With a purpose to document and deliver news as fast as possible, press photographers captured the chaotic wartime of the Showa era, but some of them showed original aesthetic intentions in their works....More »
Kazuyoshi Nomachi "Pilgrimage"
[23][6]- Media: Photography
- 2009-03-28 - 2009-05-17
Photographer Kazuyoshi Nomachi visited the Sahara desert in his 20s, where he was inspired by the massiveness of nature and the strength of people living in the challenging environment. Since then, he...More »
"Before the Dawn: Pioneering History of Japanese Photography II, Chubu, Kinki, and Chugoku Regions" Exhibition
[9][4]- Media: Photography - Other
- 2009-03-07 - 2009-05-10
This exhibition is a survey of all the Bakumatsu era to the mid Meiji era photography belonging to photography museums and literary institutions from all over the country. Part two will focus on the Chubu,...More »
Miwa Yanagi "My Grandmothers"
[105][27]- Media: Photography
- 2009-03-07 - 2009-05-10
After receiving the MFA from Kyoto City University of Arts, photographer Miwa Yanagi held her first solo exhibition in Kyoto 1993. After 1996, she began participating in exhibitions internationally. Her...More »
"APA Award 2009"
[4][1]- Media: Photography - Art Competition
- 2009-03-07 - 2009-03-22
Organized by the Japan Advertising Photographers' Association, "APA Award 2009" presents selected works in two categories: the advertisement category presents outstanding works that appeared in advertisements...More »
Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions
[39][9]- Media: Photography - Film - Video installation - Digital - Art Talk
- 2009-02-20 - 2009-03-01
The Yebisu International Festival for Art and Alternative Visions is an annual event that will fill the entire Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography building with ten days of exhibitions, screening...More »
"Quest for Vision vol. 1: Imagination - Vision, Perception and Beyond" Exhibition
[92][21]- Media: Photography - Installation - Video installation - Art Talk
- 2008-12-20 - 2009-02-15
This "Quest for Vision" is a new exhibition series starting this year that deals with a total of five themes, one per installment, using material from the video collection. New perspectives focusing on...More »
"Iwata Nakayama: Modernist Light and Shadow" Exhibition
[59][8]- Media: Photography
- 2008-12-13 - 2009-02-08
Iwata Nakayama is an important modern Japanese photographer who broke new ground for expression in the medium. After graduating from the photography department at Tokyo University of the Arts in 1918,...More »
Toshio Shibata "Landscape"
[93][21]- Media: Photography
- 2008-12-13 - 2009-02-08
After completing the Master's degree at Tokyo University of the Arts, Toshio Shibata attended the photography course at the Royal Academy in Belgium, where he began focusing on the media. In the late 1980s,...More »
9th Hikoma Ueno Prize Exhibition
[2][0]- Media: Photography
- 2008-12-06 - 2008-12-14
The "Hikoma Ueno Prize - Kyushu Sangyo University Photo Contest" was named after the father of Japanese photography, and aims to discover and nurture talent in young photographers for the 21st century....More »
New Cosmos of Photography Tokyo Exhibition 2008
[20][6]- Media: Photography - Art Talk
- 2008-11-08 - 2008-11-30
This exhibition is part of a series of cultural support activities organized by Canon, and this year marks the 18th time it is being held to discover, nurture and support new talent in photography. Since...More »
"On Your Body" Exhibition
[110][19]- Media: Photography - Art Talk
- 2008-10-18 - 2008-12-07
At a time when virtual space is spreading continuously, problems and issues connected to the "body" are intensifying. The most advanced and innovative forays into contemporary photography, video and other...More »
19th Japan Association of Photography Artists Exhibition/6th JPA Open Call Exhibition
[3][0]- Media: Photography
- 2008-10-18 - 2008-11-03
This 19th edition of the JPA Exhibition features 200 works by members of the Japan Photographers Association. In addition, the 6th installment of the open call exhibition showcases 162 works that have...More »
"Still/Motion: Liquid Crystal Painting" Exhibition
[94][17]- Media: Video installation - Digital - Art Talk
- 2008-08-23 - 2008-10-13
Video technology has left a deep impact on visual culture. Video artists like Nam June Paik who came to prominence in the 1960s drew attention to the possibilities of video art that were completely dissimilar...More »
Edward Burtynsky "Manufactured Landscapes"
[18][0]- Media: Film
- 2008-07-12 - 2008-09-10
The environment, China, art. Is this how the earth is being laid to waste, or just the unfortunate footprint of human development and progress? Internationally-renowned photographer Edward Burtynsky's...More »
"Visions of America" Exhibition
[28][8]- Media: Photography
- 2008-07-05 - 2008-12-07
America has been a leader in the realm of photographic expression since the early days of the medium, especially throughout the 20th century - both as a fertile ground for creating photographic work and...More »
Mitsuhiko Imamori "Insects: A 4 Billion Year Journey"
[17][4]- Media: Photography
- 2008-07-05 - 2008-08-17
Mitsuhiko Imamori is a photographer who communicates the beauty of the world's tropical rainforests, deserts and Japan's natural environments through themes such as the relationship of main to nature,...More »
"World Press Photography Exhibition 2008"
[52][13]- Media: Photography
- 2008-06-14 - 2008-08-10
The results of the world press photography contest, which gathers the best work out of all press images taken last year, were announced on February 8th in Amsterdam. This year's contest, the 51st, drew...More »
33rd Japan Photographic Society (JPS) Exhibition
[3][0]- Media: Photography - Art Talk
- 2008-05-24 - 2008-06-08
The Japan Photographic Society (JPS) was founded in 1950 in order to promote the spread and development of photographic culture, as well as organize photo contests aimed at photography lovers. This year...More »
Daido Moriyama "I. Retrospective 1965-2005" & "II. Hawaii"
[115][25]- Media: Photography
- 2008-05-13 - 2008-06-29
The Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography is pleased to announce that it will be holding a two-part exhibition of the work of Daido Moriyama under the titles "Ⅰ. Retrospective 1965-2005" and "Ⅱ. Hawaii."...More »
"Forbidden City" Exhibition
[13][2]- Media: Photography
- 2008-03-29 - 2008-05-18
The Forbidden City in Beijing was for over 500 years the symbol of China's splendor and even looked upon as something like the center of the universe. Up until the Qing dynasty ended in 1911, it was also...More »
"Surrealism and Photography: Beauty Convulsed" Exhibition
[105][20]- Media: Photography
- 2008-03-15 - 2008-05-06
Since their inaugural manifesto published by Andre Breton in 1924, Surrealism slowly grew to become the 20th century's largest art movement. From their base in Paris, the movement spread internationally,...More »
Mario Giacomelli Exhibition
[101][25]- Media: Photography
- 2008-03-15 - 2008-05-06
Mario Giacomelli was an amateur photographer who was born in Senigallia in northeast Italy. Throughout his entire life, he took photographs almost exclusively in and of his hometown. He was a representative...More »
"36th Public Exhibition of the Japan Advertising Photographers' Association (APA)"
[6][0]- Media: Photography
- 2008-03-08 - 2008-03-23
The Advertising Photographers' Association (APA) of Japan will display works selected for the APA awards 2008. This year's exhibition features work produced by professional advertising photographers that...More »
"Seven Nights, Seven Lights" Exhibition
[14][1]- Media: Film - Art Talk - Performance Art
- 2008-02-21 - 2008-03-01
This is an experimental exhibition that takes a look at "film" from various angles. For seven nights, guests and performers will screen films, hold exhibitions, and give performance and lectures in the...More »
"Hafez" Film Screening
[11][3]- Media: Film
- 2008-01-19 - 2008-02-22
This is a beautiful legend of love inspired by the ancient Persian poet Hafez, the Iranian "Romeo and Juliet." The fated lovers fall in love through poems never to become face to face, yet are drawn apart...More »
"Contemporary Art & Photography in Japan: Still / Alive" Exhibition
[85][16]- Media: Photography - Performance Art
- 2007-12-22 - 2008-02-20
STILL/ALIVE is the sixth in this museum's annual series of exhibitions of work by contemporary Japanese photographers. This year the focus is on contemporary lives and times and their expression, and works...More »
"Haptic Literature" Exhibition
[114][35]- Media: Installation - Film - Video installation - Digital
- 2007-12-15 - 2008-02-17
This is a collaborative exhibition between contemporary literary authors and media artists that focuses on how pure literature and the visual and media arts interface. Works will visualize literary worlds...More »
"Hiromi Tuchida's Nippon" Exhibition
[36][17]- Media: Photography - Art Talk
- 2007-12-15 - 2008-02-20
This artist started being seriously active as a photographer in the late 1960sm and has photographed Japan's vernacular cultures, Hiroshima, the period of high economic growth, the bubble economy, and...More »
8th Hikoma Ueno Award - Kyushu Sangyo University Photo Contest Winning Works Exhibition
[2][0]- Media: Photography - Art Competition
- 2007-12-01 - 2007-12-09
The Ueno Hikoma Awards - Kyushu Sangyo University Photo Contest's aims are the discovery and nurturing of young photographers in the 21st century. The contest is in its 8th year. and 1758 works in the...More »
"Magnum Photos" Exhibition
[35][9]- Media: Photography - Film
- 2007-12-01 - 2008-01-18
Magnum Photo, "the world's top photographers' group." This documentary created in 1999 features interviews with 16 central members including Martin Parr and Constantine Manos and infiltrates Magnum Photos...More »
The 3rd Reminders Showcase “View Opportunities”
[3][0]- Media: Photography - Art Talk
- 2007-12-01 - 2007-12-02
The Reminders Project works to raise awareness of and seek various viewpoints on myriad situations around the world. We have no restrictions on where and how our works are presented. We also have no requirements...More »
New Cosmos of Photography Exhibition 2007
[44][8]- Media: Photography - Art Competition
- 2007-11-03 - 2007-11-25
The "New Cosmos of Photography" exhibition is one of Canon's ways of giving support to cultural activities by discovering and elevating new talented photographers from Japan and abroad. In its 17th year,...More »
Shomei Tomatsu "Tokyo Mandala"
[61][15]- Media: Photography
- 2007-10-27 - 2007-12-16
This artist is a representative Japanese postwar photographer who has continued to exhibit photographic series on various topics all over Japan since the 1950s. "Tokyo Mandala" is the last installment...More »
Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia 2007
[3][1]- Media: Film
- 2007-10-25 - 2007-10-28
The "Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia" and award ceremony were held this year to great success. SSFF & ASIA2007 films screenings and workshops are planned for this event. Please see event homepage...More »
20th Tokyo International Film Festival Event: 2007 Tokyo-China Film Week
[2][0]- Media: Film
- 2007-10-20 - 2007-10-24
This "Japan-China Friendship Film Festival" is being held in conjunction with the "20th Tokyo International Film Festival" to commemorate the 35th anniversary of normalization of Japan-China relations....More »
"Showa: Photography 1945-1989 - Part.4 'From the Oil Shock to the Bubble Era' (1975-)" Exhibition
[18][6]- Media: Photography
- 2007-10-20 - 2007-12-09
Slow economic growth had become constant, the postwar generation was named the "New Family" and were now at the center of Japanese generational composition. Regional societies and families started falling...More »
18th Japan Photographers Association Exhibition + 5th JPA Open Submissions Exhibition
[3][0]- Media: Photography
- 2007-10-13 - 2007-10-28
This will be the 18th JPA Exhibition, and 217 member works will be on display. For the 5th exhibition based on an open call, 163 works selected from a total of 2,173 submissions will be on display. Sponsored...More »
Risaku Suzuki "Kumano, Yuki, Sakura"
[64][22]- Media: Photography
- 2007-09-01 - 2007-10-21
This exhibition aims to reconsider the true essence of photography through the eye of one of Japan's most active photographers, Risaku Suzuki. Born in Wakayama Prefecture in 1963, he received the Kimura...More »
"Showa: Photography 1945-1989 - Part.3 'The Period of Rapid Growth' (1955-1964 Part.II)" Exhibition
[28][12]- Media: Photography
- 2007-08-25 - 2007-10-14
Having been told, "It is no longer the postwar era," Japanese people had reached the period of rapid growth. On the one hand their lives were characterized by the gaiety of modernization, but on the other...More »
Curator's Choice 07 "Conversing Museum"
[83][16]- Media: Photography
- 2007-08-11 - 2007-10-08
Many staff members are involved in Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography's diverse operations. Specialty researchers, librarians, preservation specialists, preservation science researchers are involved...More »
Martin Parr "Fashion Magazine"
[90][12]- Media: Photography
- 2007-07-07 - 2007-08-26
This exhibition is the first large-scale solo show of renowned English photographer Martin Parr's work to be held in Japan. Known for his uniquely conceptualized and designed photography compilations,...More »
"Showa Photography from 1945 to 1989 - Part 2: The Age of Heroes & Heroines" Exhibition
[25][9]- Media: Photography
- 2007-06-30 - 2007-08-19
The mid 1950s to mid 1970s were defined by heroes and heroines from the sporting, acting, singing and political fields - perhaps it was the last era in which the Japanese were able to share their love...More »
World Press Photography Exhibition 2007
[40][12]- Media: Photography
- 2007-06-16 - 2007-08-05
Set up in Holland in 1955 to spread the freedom of press, the World Press Photography Foundation holds a yearly competition of images taken by press photographers over the past year. Composed of ten categories...More »
32nd Japan Professional Photographers Society Exhibition
[11][2]- Media: Photography
- 2007-05-26 - 2007-06-10
With the aim of promoting the spread of photography, the Japanese Professional Photographers Society, established in 1950, holds an annual call for submissions from photography lovers. Now in its 32nd...More »
"Showa Photography from 1945 to 1989 - Part 1: 1945-1954" Exhibition
[28][9]- Media: Photography
- 2007-05-12 - 2007-06-24
It has already been nearly 20 years since the Showa period (1926-1989) turned into the Heisei period. Japan underwent many changes following the Second World War. Th country arose from the ashes and people's...More »
Takeshi Mizukoshi "Memories of Mother Earth"
[4][0]- Media: Photography
- 2007-05-12 - 2007-07-01
Taking "the Earth seen from the ecosystem" as his theme, Takeshi Mizukoshi has continued to photograph tall mountains and breathtaking scenery all over the world. This exhibition presents 200 works, both...More »
Takashi Amano Exhibition
[3][2]- Media: Photography
- 2007-04-21 - 2007-05-20
Sado Island is located almost in the middle of the Japanese archipelago, at the meeting point between warm and cold ocean currents, creating a climate that allows for the growth of a variety of plants...More »
"Tokyo seen by Magnum Photographers" Exhibition
[96][28]- Media: Photography
- 2007-03-10 - 2007-05-06
Magnum Photos is a group of photojournalists that was founded in 1947 by Robert Capa (Hungary), Henri Cartier-Bresson (France), George Roger (Great Britain), David Seymour "Chim" (Poland) based on Capa's...More »
"History of Pioneers in Japanese Photography [Kanto District]" Exhibition
[10][8]- Media: Photography - Art Talk
- 2007-03-10 - 2007-05-06
This exhibition is a survey of all the Bakumatsu era photography (1853-1967) from photography museum and literary institutions from all over the country. Part one will focus on the themes of "encounter",...More »
"Hikoma Ueno Prize" Exhibition
[2][1]- Media: Photography - Art Competition
- 2007-03-10 - 2007-03-18
The Hikoma Ueno Prize / Kyushu Industrial University Photo Contest aims to foster talent among young photographers starting out in the 21st century. Now in its 7th year, it is showing the most works in...More »
10th Japan Media Arts Festival
[54][18]- Media: Graphics - Illustration - Digital - Art Talk - Art Competition
- 2007-02-24 - 2007-03-04
A celebration of Art, Entertainment, Animation and Manga, in which artists from 36 countries around the world are participating. There are several events taking place where you can experience the excitement...More »
New Collection Exhibition "Welcome to the Museum of Photography!!"
[25][5]- Media: Photography
- 2007-02-03 - 2007-02-18
Since 1989, the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography has continued to collect outstanding works of photography produced in Japan and overseas. The collection contains approximately 23,000 works, covering...More »
"Emerging Japanese Artists Vol.5 - Travelers of the Earth and Stars" Exhibition
[19][7]- Media: Photography
- 2007-01-02 - 2007-01-28
With its mission to support artists who explore the creative possibilities of photography, this exhibition of up and coming nature photographers is being held. Following the 20th century, in which industrial...More »
"First Encounters with Light in Photographic Art" Exhibition
[92][24]- Media: Photography - Art Talk
- 2006-12-23 - 2007-02-18
With "light and shade" - one the starting points for photographic art - as its theme, this exhibition takes a look at photographic expression from a variety of points of view, in light of diversification...More »
"Spherical Dualism of Photography: The World of Eikoh Hosoe" Exhibition
[44][13]- Media: Photography - Art Talk
- 2006-12-14 - 2007-01-28
Eikoh Hosoe, a photographer who searches for the essence of storytelling in his work, was born in Yonezawa City in Yamagata Prefecture in 1933 and was brought up in Tokyo. Since he was inspired by his...More »
4th Japan Photographers' Association Public Works Exhibition
[0][0]- Media: Photography
- 2006-12-09 - 2006-12-24
For the 17th Japanese Photographers' Association exhibition, 200 works by its members will be on display. This is also the fourth time that there has been a nationwide call for photo submissions, out of...More »
New Cosmos of Photography Exhibition 2006
[40][14]- Media: Photography
- 2006-11-11 - 2006-12-03
The "New Cosmos of Photography" exhibition is one of Canon's ways of giving support to cultural activities by discovering, elevating and supporting new talented photographers from Japan and abroad. In...More »
"Collage and Photomontage" Exhibition
[59][16]- Media: Photography - Art Talk
- 2006-11-03 - 2006-12-17
Everybody has had the experience of cutting out their favourite photographs and sticking them onto a piece of paper. Since the 17th century, people have been sticking feathers and animal skins onto other...More »
"Parallel Japan" Contemporary Japanese Architecture 1996-2006
[90][21]- Media: Photography - Architecture
- 2006-10-21 - 2006-12-03
With the cooperation of the Japan Foundation and the Architectural Institute of Japan, the museum is holding an exhibition that looks at 110 works of contemporary architecture while comparing them to the...More »
Film screening: Henri Cartier-Bresson "Memories of Moments"
[4][1]- Media: Film
- 2006-09-23 - 2006-09-29
In August 2004, the news of Henri Cartier-Bresson's death at the age of 95 shot around the world. Together with Robert Kappa, he was one of the founders of the photographers' group "Magnum", and was the...More »
Miyako Ishiuchi "Mother's"
[46][15]- Media: Photography - Film
- 2006-09-23 - 2006-11-05
In celebration of Miyako Ishiuchi's exhibition held in the Japanese Pavilion of the 51st Venice Biennale last year, the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography is holding this exhibition "Miyako Ishiuchi:...More »
Hashi (Yasuomi Hashimura) "An Instant of Eternity" & "Primitive Landscapes of the Future"
[29][9]- Media: Photography
- 2006-09-16 - 2006-10-29
New York based photographer Yasuomi Hashimura is known as "Hashi" in America and thanks to that the artist has been able to establish his status in the world of American advertising photography. With Hashi's...More »
"Post Digi-Graphy" Exhibition
[91][16]- Media: Photography - Art Talk
- 2006-08-12 - 2006-10-15
This exhibition is being held under the theme of "film and digital". Today, computer graphics have flourished and featured in film and television, they have become a regular part of our everyday lives....More »
Ikuo Nakamura "27,000 hour Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea"
[41][8]- Media: Photography
- 2006-08-05 - 2006-09-18
This exhibition presents the photographic work of Ikuo Nakamura, who has been photographing the beauty and drama of the sea and the creatures that live in it for over 40 years. More »
"Half a Century of Despair and Hope" Celebrating 50 Years of World Press Photography
[13][3]- Media: Photography
- 2006-07-22 - 2006-09-10
This exhibition marks 50 years since the World Press Photography Association in Amsterdam, Holland. It was held in Amsterdam from October to November last year and is currently travelling around the world....More »
"Isabelle Huppert - Woman of Many Faces" Exhibition
[58][11]- Media: Photography - Film
- 2006-07-01 - 2006-08-06
This exhibition brings together the work of 72 photographers from around the world who have made portraits of the famous French actress Isabelle Huppert. Born in 1955 in Paris, she was interested in theatre...More »
Curators' Choice Exhibition
[12][4]- Media: Photography
- 2006-06-24 - 2006-07-17
This exhibition presents works from the museum's collection of over 23,000 photographs, video works and library materials, as chosen by one of the museum's curators. More »
"Goya Champuru - Island of Light"
[1][2]- Media: Film
- 2006-06-24 - 2006-07-14
Due to the combination of bullying at school and the death of her father, Hiromi Suzuki stops going to school and locks herself away in a darkened room where she connects with the world only through the...More »
World Press Photography Exhibition 2006
[39][16]- Media: Photography
- 2006-06-17 - 2006-07-30
Set up in Holland in 1955 to spread the freedom of press, the World Press Photography Foundation holds a yearly competition of images taken by press photographers over the past year. Composed of ten categories...More »
Higashikawacho International Photography Prize Collection Exhibition
[3][3]- Media: Photography
- 2006-06-01 - 2006-06-18
In 1985, Higashikawacho, which sits at the top of Hokkaido, became known throughout Japan as the "town of photography", as it had just launched an international photography festival taking place every...More »
Michael Kenna "In Japan"
[50][13]- Media: Photography
- 2006-05-20 - 2006-06-25
The world's most important landscape photographer, Michael Kenna, was born in 1953 and raised in the industrial area of Lancashire, in northern England. After studying at the London School of Art, in 1976...More »
34th Japan Advertising Photographers' Association Exhibition
[2][1]- Media: Photography
- 2006-04-29 - 2006-05-14
This is an exhibition of advertising photography in which visitors can find something which will stir the emotions, something which makes itself understood even with just one glance. When that something...More »
Guy Bourdin Photo Exhibition
[31][7]- Media: Photography
- 2006-04-29 - 2006-05-27
Guy Bourdin is one of the most influential fashion photographers of the 20th century. Following his passing in 1991, interest in reviving his lifetime work rose. In 2001, ten years after his death, a...More »
Destiny Deacon "Walk and Don't Look Blak"
[26][9]- Media: Photography - Sculpture - Installation - Video installation
- 2006-04-29 - 2006-06-11
This show, Deacon's first solo exhibition, which was first held at the Sydney Museum of Contemporary Art and then travelled to New Zealand, was arranged so that it could travel to Japan. Deacon, who is...More »
Absolutely Private Contemporary Photography Vol.4 - On Photography in the Zero Decade
[64][28]- Media: Photography
- 2006-03-11 - 2006-04-23
This exhibition addresses today's photography scene-so often hived off into contemporary photography and contemporary art or into high culture and subcultures-as a continuous whole in an effort to present...More »
Wo Ai Ni (I Love You)
[3][1]- Media: Film
- 2006-03-11 - 2006-04-14
"Xiao Ju, who has lost her love in an accident, right before their wedding, falls in love with his best friend Wang Yi while he is looking after her, and they quickly get married. While she has at last...More »
Japan Media Arts Festival
[54][19]- Media: Illustration - Photography - Digital - Art Talk - Art Competition
- 2006-02-24 - 2006-03-05
The Japan Media Arts Festival is a celebration of Art, Entertainment, Animation and Manga, in which artists and designers from 44 countries around the world are participating. There are several events...More »
The 6th Hikoma Ueno Prize Winners' Exhibition
[0][0]- Media: Photography
- 2006-02-11 - 2006-02-18
Aimed at revealing the next generation of photographers of the 21st century, and named after one of Japan's first professional photographers, the Hikoma Ueno prize winners' exhibition features, in its...More »
Vietnam 1954-1975: Excavated Records of War
[12][2]- Media: Photography
- 2006-01-14 - 2006-02-19
Vietnam went through a bloody tragedy from the beginning of the struggle against the French colony in 1954, the armed conflict with the US, to the eventual reunification of North and South in 1975. This...More »
Through the Eyes of Taro Okamoto
[50][16]- Media: Photography
- 2005-12-24 - 2006-02-18
As the last exhibition of its 10th anniversary year, the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography presents an exhibition of photographs by Taro Okamoto. Often associated with the words "Showa era", "rapid...More »
Japanese Children in the Past 60 Years - 21,900 Days of Drama
[3][1]- Media: Photography
- 2005-12-17 - 2006-01-09
This exhibition, organised by the Japan Professional Photographers Society, will tell the story of sixty years, or 21900 days, of Japanese children. The story begins in Hiroshima on August 6th 1945, going...More »
Shoji Ueda Exhibition
[39][23]- Media: Photography
- 2005-12-17 - 2006-02-05
This is the first memorial exhibition to be held in Japan since the death of Shoji Ueda. The exhibition will explore his world by covering photographs from his whole career. Born in Tottori Prefecture,...More »
Noriaki Yokosuka - Photographic Magic "Light and Demons"
[5][4]- Media: Photography
- 2005-11-19 - 2005-12-18
Noriaki Yokosuka died suddenly at the young age of 65 on January 14, 2003. He left us numerous excellent advertising pictures with which he earned his spurs as a commercial photographer. During his photography...More »
New Cosmos Of Photography Exhibition 2005
[6][3]- Media: Photography
- 2005-11-12 - 2005-12-11
This is the 14th edition of the "New Cosmos Of Photography Exhibition", which is part of Canon's Cultural Aid Project. The purpose of this exhibition is to scout, train and support young and promising...More »
Japanese Contemporary Dance Media 2005
[17][4]- Media: Installation
- 2005-10-01 - 2005-11-13
On the occasion of Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography's tenth anniversary, the "Contemporary Dance Media" exhibition examines the body, that most familiar medium, and contemplates its expressive...More »
Rosas XXV 1980-2005
[1][1]- Media: Photography - Video installation
- 2005-10-01 - 2005-10-30
An exhibition celebrating the 25 years of Belgian choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and her contemporary dance company "Rosas". Tracing their activities through photographs and video installations,...More »
How has Photography Changed Our Way of Looking at Things ? Part Four - "Chaos" Present and Future
[41][9]- Media: Photography
- 2005-09-17 - 2005-11-06
The theme of Part Four is the relationship between museums and photographs. By focusing on artistic expression through photographs after 1970, this event contemplates the present state of chaos in the...More »
Japan Photographers Association's 16th Exhibition
[0][1]- Media: Photography
- 2005-09-10 - 2005-09-25
260 photographs by the members of the Japan Photographers Association will be displayed at the 16th JPA Exhibition. 100 awarded works that were selected from photographs submitted by the public will also...More »
The Pride of Japan
[1][2]- Media: Photography
- 2005-08-20 - 2005-09-04
360 pictures from all over Japan, celebrating its landscape, climate, people and culture.More »
Brassai Photo Exhibition
[18][7]- Media: Photography
- 2005-08-06 - 2005-09-25
Brassai was born Gyula Halasz in Brasov, Hungary (now a province of Romania) in 1988. He studied in Hungary and Germany to become an artist until moving to Paris in 1924, where he worked as a journalist....More »
How has Photography Changed Our Way of Looking at Things ? Part Three - Reconstruction
[10][16]- Media: Photography
- 2005-07-23 - 2005-09-11
"Twelve Photographers and War": with this theme, the 3rd part of the series of exhibtions looks at how photographers have lived through different ages and societies, with a focus on the period from the...More »
World Heritage Photo Exhibition: "Living with Angkor"
[2][3]- Media: Photography
- 2005-07-16 - 2005-08-14
The Empire of the Khmer flourished on the Indo-Chinese peninsula between the 8th and 15th centuries. They developed their own culture, which was strongly influenced by Hinduism and Buddhism, and is especially...More »
World Press Photo 2005
[7][7]- Media: Photography
- 2005-06-18 - 2005-07-31
Every year this photojournalism contest is held for professionals from all over the world. The photo of an indian woman crying her lost parents after the tsunami in Sumatra won the Grand Prize of this...More »
How has Photography Changed Our Way of Looking at Things ? Part 2 - Creation
[14][10]- Media: Drawing - Photography
- 2005-05-28 - 2005-07-18
Part two of this exhibition series will feature photographic expression from the latter 19th century to the 1930s. This was an era where photography developed its own unique artistic and expressive styles. As...More »
Visualize - The History and Futurescape of Visual Media
[22][21]- Media: Film - Video installation - Digital
- 2005-04-30 - 2005-07-10
Celebrating the museum's 10th anniversary, "Visualize - The History and Futurescape of Visual Media" will exhibit 4000 works in 5 categories, spanning the whole history of photographic and video art. A...More »
Natural Enchantments: The World of Tabuchi Yukio
[4][1]- Media: Photography
- 2005-04-23 - 2005-06-12
Yukio Tabuchi is not only well known for his mountain photography but he is also one of the leading photographers of nature. He has extensively researched insects and snow formations through his camera....More »
How Photography Has Changed Our Way Of Looking At Things ? Part 1 - Birth
[7][7]- Media: Photography
- 2005-04-02 - 2005-05-22
For its 10th anniversary, the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography has selected, within its formidable collection, pictures that highlight the role of photography and its influence on our lives.More »
10 Views of Spain
[3][1]- Media: Photography
- 2005-03-19 - 2005-04-24
This is an exhibition on the transformation which Spain went through during its 25 years of democracy. Works by 10 spanish photographers, including Christina Garcia Rodero, will be on display. (Photo...More »
Shinichiro Kobayashi: Building the Chanel Lumiere Tower
[2][2]- Media: Photography
- 2005-03-12 - 2005-04-17
Shinichiro Kobayashi captures the ambiguous world of things left behind by our time - Mines, factories, schools and hospitals in ruin; buildings, highways, dams, tunnels, and bridges in construction....More »
The 33th APA exhibition
[0][0]- Media: Photography - Art Competition
- 2005-03-12 - 2005-03-27
100+ awarded works, selected from submissions made from throughout Japan. These images provide an outlook at the future of advertising photography.More »
8th Japan Media Arts Festival
[1][5]- Media: Film - Digital - Art Competition
- 2005-02-25 - 2005-03-06
The festival celebrates Art, Entertainment, Animation and Manga and there have been entries from 43 nations across the globe. For 10 days only, you will be able to catch the display and screening of about...More »
Global Media 2005 - Otaku: persona=space=city
[3][3]- Media: Photography - Film - Video installation
- 2005-02-05 - 2005-03-13
Exhibition of the 3rd "Global Media 2005", displaying the works of many Japanese media artists, some like "Otaku: persona=space=city" were shown at the Venezia Triennale last year.More »
Heian - Masatoshi Toda Exhibition
[0][2]- Media: Photography
- 2005-01-21 - 2005-02-19
Exhibition featuring Japanese photographer Masatoshi Toda, who shoots images expressing "light", "colors", "humidity" , "air" and "kindness".More »
On Flowering Images; Contemporary Japanese Photographic Art
[1][0]- Media: Photography
- 2004-12-25 - 2005-02-06
Exhibition of contemporary japanese photographic art featuring "flowers". They are so attractive!More »
Clare Langan A Film Trilogy
[0][0]- Media: Photography
- 2004-12-18 - 2005-01-30
Exhibition featuring the beautiful and fantastic movie "A Film Trilogy" by Irish artist Clare Langan. More »
New Cosmos Of Photography Exhibition 2004
[0][2]- Media: Photography
- 2004-11-27 - 2004-12-19
New Cosmos Of Photography Exhibition is famed as a gateway to success for young photographers. This exhibition has produced a lot of famous photographers such as Masafumi Sanai, Yuki Onodera, Mika Ninagawa...More »
Dreaming of Tomorrow
[0][2]- Media: Photography
- 2004-11-27 - 2005-01-16
Exibition featuring documentary photography about the social instability in the United States of the second half of the 19th century and early 20th century. The works exhibited are very powerful and in...More »
Mission: Frontier - deep space of our perception
[0][1]- Media: Photography
- 2004-11-09 - 2004-12-15
Exhibition featuring "deep space" such as universe, deep water or space within our brain, which is the last frontier for human-beings to explore - figuratively or literally.More »
Dutch Light
[0][4]- Media: Photography - Film
- 2004-11-03 - 2004-12-17
There’s an ancient myth that the light in Holland is different from anywhere else, but it has never been put to the test. It’s the legendary light we see in paintings. The German artist Joseph Beuys, however,...More »
Short Shorts Film Festival
[0][0]- Media: Film - Digital
- 2004-10-29 - 2004-10-31
Asian films-- from Japan, Korea, India--have captured the world’s interest with their unique sensibilities. It is important that new Asian talents be able to share their work with film fans around the...More »
SSF World Sports Photo Contest 2004
[0][0]- Media: Photography
- 2004-10-21 - 2004-11-03
Exhibition featuring sports photographs of "the moment of humanity" like concentration, tension, releasing, smiles, beauty and emotion.More »
Mario Testino Portraits
[1][2]- Media: Photography - Fashion
- 2004-10-16 - 2004-11-21
Exhibition featuring celebrity portraits taken by world-famous fashion photographer Mario Testino.More »
40th Anniversary Exhibition of Tokyo Olympic Games
[0][0]- Media: Photography
- 2004-09-11 - 2004-10-17
This is a photo exhibition of the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games to celebrate its 40th aniversary this year with the Athens Olympic Games.More »
Piercing the Sky
[0][0]- Media: Photography
- 2004-09-04 - 2004-10-11
This is the photo exhibition of Eiichiro Sakata, the famous portrait photographer who used to work as an assistant of Mr. Richrd Avedon in 1970. Here he showed about 100 photos taken to this exhibition...More »
Photo Exhibition 「PARIS+KLEIN」： William klein
[0][1]- Media: Photography
- 2004-08-24 - 2004-10-06
In 2002, William Klein did "Paris+Klein" in the exhibition at the same time in the photo album, and it gained great appreciation. This is the circuit exhibition after the one in the European Museum of...More »
