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.
15:Lomography ●●●●●●
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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.