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TOP Collection Memento Mori and Photography
Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
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Mario Giacomelli, Robert Capa, Kyoichi Sawada, Sebastião Salgado, Walker Evans, William Eugene Smith, Lee Friedlander, Robert Frank, Shigeo Gocho, William Eggleston, Diane Arbus, Nobuyoshi Araki, Jean-Eugène Atget, Josef Sudek, Ichiro Kojima, Shomei Tomatsu et al.
The TOP Collection Exhibition is an exhibition introducing masterpieces from the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography's collection of approximately 36,000 works. Under the theme of "Memento Mori," this exhibition explores how people have lived robustly while facing death through approximately 150 photographic works, stimulating the imagination to live positively through difficult times. "Memento Mori," which means "Think of Death" in Latin, was an alarming phrase that indicated that people's daily lives were always fraught with death. In the medieval Christian world of the 14th to 17th centuries, when the plague was rampant, this phrase was combined with the image of the "Dance of Death," which depicted skeletons and humans dancing, and spread widely as the subject of paintings, music, and other works of art. On the other hand, photography has also been frequently mentioned in numerous photographic treatises as a medium that evokes the idea of death.
This exhibition will reconsider the close relationship between "Memento Mori" and "photography" through the work of Jean-Eugène Atget, W. Eugene Smith, Robert Frank, Mario Giacomelli, and others who represent the 19th century to the present.
This exhibition will reconsider the close relationship between "Memento Mori" and "photography" through the work of Jean-Eugène Atget, W. Eugene Smith, Robert Frank, Mario Giacomelli, and others who represent the 19th century to the present.
Schedule | Jun 17 (Fri) 2022-Sep 25 (Sun) 2022 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Adults ¥700; University Students ¥560; High School and Junior High School Students, Seniors 65 & Over ¥350; Persons with Disability Certificates + 2 Companion free. | ||||
| Website | http://topmuseum.jp/contents/exhibition/index-4278.html | ||||
| Venue | Tokyo Photographic Art Museum http://topmuseum.jp/e/contents/index.html | ||||
| Location | Yebisu Garden Place, 1-13-3 Mita, Meguro-ku, 153-0062 Tokyo | ||||
| Access | 7 minute walk from the East exit of Ebisu Station on the JR Yamanote and Saikyo lines, 11 minute walk from exit 1 at Ebisu Station on the Hibiya line. | ||||
| Phone | 03-3280-0099 | ||||
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