Until 10 August 2008
Room 3
Admission free
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Photograph by Hosoe Eikoh: Kamaitachi #6, 1965. © Hosoe Eikoh
Photograph by Hosoe Eikoh: Kamaitachi #6, 1965. © Hosoe Eikoh
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Photograph by Hosoe Eikoh: Kamaitachi #5, 1965. © Hosoe Eikoh
Photograph by Hosoe Eikoh: Kamaitachi #5, 1965. © Hosoe Eikoh
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Photograph by Hosoe Eikoh: Kamaitachi #8, 1965. © Hosoe Eikoh
Photograph by Hosoe Eikoh: Kamaitachi #8, 1965. © Hosoe Eikoh
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Photograph by Hosoe Eikoh: Kamaitachi #12, 1968. © Hosoe Eikoh
Photograph by Hosoe Eikoh: Kamaitachi #12, 1968. © Hosoe Eikoh
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Photograph by Hosoe Eikoh: Kamaitachi #13, 1965. © Hosoe Eikoh
Photograph by Hosoe Eikoh: Kamaitachi #13, 1965. © Hosoe Eikoh
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Photograph by Hosoe Eikoh: Kamaitachi #17, 1965. © Hosoe Eikoh
Photograph by Hosoe Eikoh: Kamaitachi #17, 1965. © Hosoe Eikoh
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Photograph by Hosoe Eikoh: Kamaitachi #32, 1965. © Hosoe Eikoh
Photograph by Hosoe Eikoh: Kamaitachi #32, 1965. © Hosoe Eikoh
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Photograph by Hosoe Eikoh: Kamaitachi #37, 1965. © Hosoe Eikoh
Photograph by Hosoe Eikoh: Kamaitachi #37, 1965. © Hosoe Eikoh
The images featured in the slideshow
are all taken from Hosoe Eikoh's
photobook Kamaitachi, just one of the featured books
in the display.
The display focuses on three recently acquired photobooks by
leading Japanese photographers of the post-war period: Tōmatsu
Shōmei (born 1930), Hosoe Eikoh (born 1933) and Homma Takashi (born
1962).
Photobooks are sequences of pictures bound together to tell a
story. The three featured in this display are shown together with
contextual images from the archives of The Asahi Shimbun, Japan’s
leading newspaper. Each pair of images explores a key theme of
everyday life in post-war and contemporary Japan.