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Absolutely Private

Contemprary Photography,Vol.4

Mar. 11—Apr. 23, 2006

• Mar. 11—Apr. 23, 2006
• Closed Monday (Tuesday if Monday is a national holiday)
• Admission：Please see the following.

14：Jun Miura 　Japan; born in 1958

Jun Miura
  From the series Ai-no-Category, 2005

A graduate of the Musashino University of Art, Miura debuted in the monthly manga magazine Garo while still a student. A man wearing many hats, including illustrator, essayist, manga artist, musician, and producer, he has also published a number of books. The phrase he coined in 1997, "my boom" won an award for the best new fashionable phrase of the year. In the field of photography, he began a series called The Slide Show in 1996; using his store of photographs taken in traveling throughout Japan, Miura did a live talk show with Seikoh Itoh. In 2005, he published his first book of photographs, Ai no kategorii (Categories of love; Pia). In fieldwork throughout the country, Miura has collected strange things, things of all sorts, things that might seem impossible to capture, generating a vast collection of photographs on "idiotic subjects." He presents them categorized and given significance in ways full of affection for his subjects and creativity. His out-sized bump of curiosity and questing spirit, which define a life work with no lines drawn between work and private interests, has generated a large collection of humorous subjects. The laughter they arouse has the power, through absolutely unpredictable idiocy and ridiculousness, to shake our conventional frameworks of meaning and value.

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15：Lomography 　●●●●●●

LomographyFrom“Lomographic Image Bank”,
2003 CLomographic Society International

In the 1990s, a group of Viennese students discovered the LOMA LC-A, a compact camera developed in the Soviet Union in the 1980s, when it was still under Communist rule. Lomography is a photography movement that began with the practice of utilizing and popularizing this camera. The Lomographic Society, based in Vienna, is the core of a free-style photography movement by "Lomographers" all over the world who shoot from the hip-from a low angle without using the viewfinder-and enjoy the communicative activities in their lives that arise from showing, looking at, displaying, and studying the resulting photographs. The appeal of the LOMA and toy cameras, with their ultra-analogue photography flavor, has attracted, in recent years, many younger Japanese as well, in a movement that bucks the tide of the rapid shift to digital photography. Stripping analog photography of any claim to practicality and focusing on the camera as toy, the unpredictable, playful Lomographic sensibility and resulting images have spawned a fresh new photographic experience. This exhibition addresses the Lomography movement as a project that has symbolically visualized the analog camera boom. With the cooperation of Lomography Japan, we will display a Lomowall, graphically composed of snapshots taken by Lomographers throughout the world in the course of their daily lives.