Eikoh Hosoe: Pioneering Post-1945 Japanese Photography

This comprehensive volume, published to coincide with a major retrospective exhibition in Japan, will be the primary resource on Hosoe's oeuvre, edited, designed, and produced under the artist's direction and with the collaboration of internationally renowned curator and scholar Yasufumi Nakamori. This career‑defining publication not only features Hosoe's major photographic series but also reveals his lesser‑known collaborative works with writers, critics, dancers, and artists, including Yayoi Kusama, in portraiture and beyond. Additionally, the volume includes two newly‑commissioned essays offering new perspectives on Hosoe's oeuvre, alongside reprints of a selection of previously‑published seminal essays on Hosoe by a range of Japanese writers, including the novelist Yukio Mishima and the art critic Shuzo Takiguchi. As well as serving as a survey of Hosoe's work, this book uncovers the essential protagonists of Japanese art, photography, dance, and literature across the post‑1945 era. 

Details

Personalities

Hosoe Eikōh

Type

Book

Place of publication

London

Publisher

Mack

Year

2021

Number of pages

400 pages

Language

English

ISBN

9781913620240

Open stacks or available on request

Available on request

Illustrations

Yes

Bibliography

Yes

UDC code and author sign

770.9 Hos

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