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.
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19th Japan Association of Photography Artists Exhibition/6th JPA Open Call Exhibition
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 (...)
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"Still/Motion: Liquid Crystal Painting" Exhibition
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 (...)
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Edward Burtynsky "Manufactured Landscapes"
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 (...)
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Mitsuhiko Imamori "Insects: A 4 Billion Year Journey"
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, (...)
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"World Press Photography Exhibition 2008"
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 (...)
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33rd Japan Photographic Society (JPS) Exhibition
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 (...)
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Daido Moriyama "I. Retrospective 1965-2005" & "II. Hawaii"
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." (...)
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"Forbidden City" Exhibition
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 (...)
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Mario Giacomelli Exhibition
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 (...)
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"Surrealism and Photography: Beauty Convulsed" Exhibition
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, (...)
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"36th Public Exhibition of the Japan Advertising Photographers' Association (APA)"
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 (...)
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"Seven Nights, Seven Lights" Exhibition
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 (...)
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"Hafez" Film Screening
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 (...)
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"Contemporary Art & Photography in Japan: Still / Alive" Exhibition
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 (...)
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"Haptic Literature" Exhibition
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 (...)
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"Hiromi Tuchida's Nippon" Exhibition
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 (...)
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"Magnum Photos" Exhibition
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 (...)
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The 3rd Reminders Showcase “View Opportunities”
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 (...)
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8th Hikoma Ueno Award - Kyushu Sangyo University Photo Contest Winning Works Exhibition
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 (...)
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New Cosmos of Photography Exhibition 2007
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, (...)
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Shomei Tomatsu "Tokyo Mandala"
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 (...)
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Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia 2007
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 (...)
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20th Tokyo International Film Festival Event: 2007 Tokyo-China Film Week
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. (...)
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"Showa: Photography 1945-1989 - Part.4 'From the Oil Shock to the Bubble Era' (1975-)" Exhibition
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 (...)
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18th Japan Photographers Association Exhibition + 5th JPA Open Submissions Exhibition
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 (...)
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Risaku Suzuki "Kumano, Yuki, Sakura"
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 (...)
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"Showa: Photography 1945-1989 - Part.3 'The Period of Rapid Growth' (1955-1964 Part.II)" Exhibition
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 (...)
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Curator's Choice 07 "Conversing Museum"
Many staff members are involved in Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography's diverse operations. Specialty researchers, librarians, preservation specialists, preservation science researchers are involved (...)
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Martin Parr "Fashion Magazine"
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, (...)
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"Showa Photography from 1945 to 1989 - Part 2: The Age of Heroes & Heroines" Exhibition
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 (...)
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World Press Photography Exhibition 2007
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 (...)
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32nd Japan Professional Photographers Society Exhibition
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 (...)
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"Showa Photography from 1945 to 1989 - Part 1: 1945-1954" Exhibition
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 (...)
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Takeshi Mizukoshi "Memories of Mother Earth"
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 (...)
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Takashi Amano Exhibition
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 (...)
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"Tokyo seen by Magnum Photographers" Exhibition
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 (...)
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"History of Pioneers in Japanese Photography [Kanto District]" Exhibition
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", (...)
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"Hikoma Ueno Prize" Exhibition
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 (...)
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10th Japan Media Arts Festival
- 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 (...)
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New Collection Exhibition "Welcome to the Museum of Photography!!"
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 (...)
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"Emerging Japanese Artists Vol.5 - Travelers of the Earth and Stars" Exhibition
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 (...)
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"First Encounters with Light in Photographic Art" Exhibition
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 (...)
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"Spherical Dualism of Photography: The World of Eikoh Hosoe" Exhibition
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 (...)
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4th Japan Photographers' Association Public Works Exhibition
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 (...)
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New Cosmos of Photography Exhibition 2006
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 (...)
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"Collage and Photomontage" Exhibition
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 (...)
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"Parallel Japan" Contemporary Japanese Architecture 1996-2006
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 (...)
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Film screening: Henri Cartier-Bresson "Memories of Moments"
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 (...)
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Miyako Ishiuchi "Mother's"
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: (...)
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Hashi (Yasuomi Hashimura) "An Instant of Eternity" & "Primitive Landscapes of the Future"
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 (...)
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"Post Digi-Graphy" Exhibition
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. (...)
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Ikuo Nakamura "27,000 hour Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea"
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.
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"Half a Century of Despair and Hope" Celebrating 50 Years of World Press Photography
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. (...)
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"Isabelle Huppert - Woman of Many Faces" Exhibition
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 (...)
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Curators' Choice Exhibition
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.
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"Goya Champuru - Island of Light"
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 (...)
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World Press Photography Exhibition 2006
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 (...)
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Higashikawacho International Photography Prize Collection Exhibition
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 (...)
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Michael Kenna "In Japan"
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 (...)
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34th Japan Advertising Photographers' Association Exhibition
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 (...)
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Guy Bourdin Photo Exhibition
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 (...)
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Destiny Deacon "Walk and Don't Look Blak"
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 (...)
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Absolutely Private Contemporary Photography Vol.4 - On Photography in the Zero Decade
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 (...)
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Wo Ai Ni (I Love You)
"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 (...)
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Japan Media Arts Festival
- 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 (...)
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The 6th Hikoma Ueno Prize Winners' Exhibition
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 (...)
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Vietnam 1954-1975: Excavated Records of War
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 (...)
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Through the Eyes of Taro Okamoto
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 (...)
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Japanese Children in the Past 60 Years - 21,900 Days of Drama
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 (...)
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Shoji Ueda Exhibition
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, (...)
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Noriaki Yokosuka - Photographic Magic "Light and Demons"
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 (...)
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New Cosmos Of Photography Exhibition 2005
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 (...)
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Japanese Contemporary Dance Media 2005
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 (...)
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Rosas XXV 1980-2005
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, (...)
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How has Photography Changed Our Way of Looking at Things ? Part Four - "Chaos" Present and Future
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 (...)
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Japan Photographers Association's 16th Exhibition
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 (...)
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The Pride of Japan
360 pictures from all over Japan, celebrating its landscape, climate, people and culture.
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Brassai Photo Exhibition
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. (...)
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How has Photography Changed Our Way of Looking at Things ? Part Three - Reconstruction
"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 (...)
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World Heritage Photo Exhibition: "Living with Angkor"
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 (...)
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World Press Photo 2005
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 (...)
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How has Photography Changed Our Way of Looking at Things ? Part 2 - Creation
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 (...)
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Visualize - The History and Futurescape of Visual Media
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 (...)
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Natural Enchantments: The World of Tabuchi Yukio
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. (...)
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