Traveling in No One’s Footsteps

The Shirakawa Yoshikazu Exhibition: From the Alps to the World’s 100 Greatest Mountains

Jul. 29—Sep. 3, 2003

• Jul. 29—Sep. 3, 2003
• Closed Monday(if Monday is a national holiday or a substitute holiday, it is the next day)
• Admission：Adults ￥600／College Students ￥500／High School and Junior High School Students,Over 65 ￥300

Shirakawa Yoshikazu has an Everest-class reputation as a photographer, world wide, and has produced a dazzling body of work, particularly as a photographer of mountains, since beginning his career as a freelance photographer in 1962. In following his chosen theme of “recovering our humanity through rediscovering the earth,” he has sought to photograph sublime, mystical landscapes. The resulting books include The Alps, The Himalayas, Eternal America, The Land of the Bible, Mainland China, Timeless Splendors: The Changing Face of Planet Earth, The Way of Buddhism, and Antarctica.
Last year, surmounting untold difficulties, he brought his great compilation of mountain photographs, The World’s Hundred Greatest Mountains, to completion. His enormous achievements, unmatched by anyone before him, capture on film the drama of nature, harsh and magnificent. His works move us and at the same time speak to us of the importance of reverence for nature and the natural environment.
This exhibition presents Shirakawa’s latest opus, The World’s Hundred Greatest Mountains, plus a selection of other images by Shirakawa from the museum’s collection, to introduce the magnificent, sublime world of Shirakawa’s photography and explore its fascination.

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(c) 白井義員『世界百名山』より＜デナリ赤変＞1997年

(c) 白井義員『世界百名山』より＜サガルマータ東壁＞1997年