Curator's Choice '07

Museum Dialogues

Aug. 11—Oct. 8, 2007

• Aug. 11—Oct. 8, 2007
• Closed Monday (Tuesday if Monday is a national holiday)
• Admission：Adults ￥500(400)／College Students ￥400(320)／High School and Junior School Students, Over 65 ￥250(200)

The staff of the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography consists of curators, specialist researchers, librarians and specialists in conservation science, who organize exhibitions, acquire works and source material on photography or imagery, carry out educational activities, run the library and undertake scientific research into the conservation of photographic materials.

These specialist staff members have developed individualistic views on photography during the course of their careers as can be seen in the upcoming “Curators’ Choice '07” exhibition. They have selected works from the Museum’s collection, on the theme of ‘Museum Dialogues’, using their specialist insights into the work to present dialogues with the artists or the works but more especially with the visitors to the exhibition, thereby demonstrating the great attraction of the Museum of Photography.

Selecting works from a total of over twenty-three thousand photographs and approximately fifty-four thousand publications and books concerning photography or imagery, the staff will present little-known masterpieces and astounding, rare works. These works are not the type that are likely to be seen at ordinary exhibitions, they are unknown masterpieces that the Museum’s specialist staff feel deserve greater exposure. (Approximately 180 works will be shown)