In the years following the Second World War in Japan, photography played an important role in the development of a new national identity. From the shock of the atomic bomb to the country's re-emergence at the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo, important photographers documented the birth of a new Japanese nation. This exhibition includes 123 photographs, as well as book...

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For over fifty years, internationally acclaimed photographer Eikoh Hosoe has been producing cutting edge works demonstrating a unique mastery of the photographic medium. Early on in his career he abandoned the documentary style prevalent in the post-war years and produced work that breathed a sense of experimentation and freedom into photography. By calling on my...

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«The camera is generally assumed to be unable to depict that which is not visible to the eye. And yet the photographer who wields it well can depict what lies unseen in his memory.» — Eikoh Hosoe

For over fifty years, internationally acclaimed Japanese photographer Eikoh Hosoe has been producing cutting ed...

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Eikoh Hosoe (Japan, 1933) is undoubtedly among the most important masters of photography since World War II. He is known for his psychologically charged images, often exploring subjects such as death, erotic obsession and irrationality.

Kahmann Gallery is proud to present a retrospective of 25 beautiful black and white silv...

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Over more than fifty years, photographer Eikoh Hosoe has built up a body of work that shows a unique mastery of photographic techniques.

Early in his career, he abandoned the predominant post-war documentary style in favour of an approach underpinned by a sense of experimentation and freedom. Making use of mythology, met...

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Depuis plus de cinquante ans, le photographe Eikoh Hosoe a crée une oeuvre qui démontre une maîtrise unique de la technique photographique. Au début de sa carrière, il a abandonné le style documentaire dominant de l’après-guerre pour une photographie imprégnée d’u...

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"To me photography can be simultaneously a record and a 'mirror' or 'window' of self-expression. The camera is generally assumed to be unable to depict that which is not visible to the eye. And yet the photographer who wields it well can depict what lies unseen in his memory." —Eikoh Hosoe

Eikoh Hosoe is an integral part of the history of modern Japanese photograp...

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Concept

On August 15th, 1945 the Pacific War came to an end and with it fourteen years of bombings, of deprivation and of great sacrifice for the Japanese people. With the collapse of Japanese militaristic rule and the arrival of the US occupation forces, the nation suddenly found itself thrust into a new and uncertain era. The myth of the Emperor's divinity, which was born durin...

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Carolina Nitsch is pleased to present FOR A LANGUAGE TO COME - Provoking Change in Japanese Postwar Photography at Carolina Nitsch Project Room in Chelsea. This exhibition of photographers and their seminal books in postwar Japan surveys a highpoint in the history of photography books. On display are vintage editions of some 35 rare Japanese photobooks from the late 1950s to the early 1990s and...

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