Kamaitachi : photographs Eikoh Hosoe, performance Tatsumi Hijikata
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Published: 2009
Total Pages: 120
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKText by Donald Keene, Shuzo Takiguchi.
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An Empty Room
Author: Michael Sakamoto
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 2022-05-15
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 081958066X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn Empty Room is a transformative journey through butoh, an avant-garde form of performance art that originated in Japan in the late 1950's and is now a global phenomenon. This is the first book about butoh authored by a scholar-practitioner who combines personal experience with ethnographic and historical accounts alongside over twenty photos. Author Michael Sakamoto traverses butoh dance history from its roots in post-World War II Japan to its diaspora in the West in the 1970s and 1980s. An Empty Room delves into the archive of butoh dance, gathering testimony from multiple generations of artists active in Japan, the US, and Europe. The book also creatively highlights seminal visual and written texts, especially Hosoe Eikoh's photo essay, "Kamaitachi," and Hijikata Tatsumi's early essays. Sakamoto ultimately fashions an original view of what butoh has been, is and, more importantly, can be through the lens of literary criticism, photo studies, folklore, political theory, and his experience performing, photographing, teaching, and lecturing in 15 countries worldwide.
Performing for the Camera
Author: Simon Baker
Publisher: Tate
Published: 2016-09-20
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781849764001
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'Performing for the camera' examines how the photograph has both documented and developed our understanding of performance since the invention of the photographic medium. It engages with both the serious business of art and performance and the humour and improvisation of posing for the camera. Featuring many of the most compelling and experimental photographers in history, it explores the works by artists such as Yves Klein, Yayoi Kusama, Nadar, Merce Cunningham, Charles Ray, Boris Mikhailov, Samuel Fosso, Cindy Sherman, Keith Arnatt and Masahisa Fukase. Edited by curator Simon Baker, this book provides fresh insight into the inter-relationship between performance and photography. With over 300 illustrations, this is the definitive publication on two of the most popular and intriguing art forms of our time. Exhibition: Tate Modern, London, UK (18.02-12.06.2016).
The Night is Still Young
Author: Eric C. Shiner
Publisher: powerHouse Books
Published: 2010-11-02
Total Pages: 109
ISBN-13: 1576875520
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith The Night Is Still Young, Los Angeles-based, Japanese photographer Tomoaki Hata returns to his roots-the underground club scene of Osaka's gay, nightlife district. Filled with intimate images of the radically-creative drag queens who performed at various venues in the city from the late 1990s through the present, this book is a peek into the underbelly of modern Japan. Hata occupies a much-deserved place in the ranks of the great Japanese photographers-on par with the likes of Daido Moriyama and Nobuyoshi Araki-yet he achieved this rank not by following the example of these greats, but via the presentation of his own unique view of a slice of Japanese culture that otherwise remains largely undocumented. Gay life and culture in Japan remains mostly secretive, and tends to take place within the safe confines of gay bars and gay districts that are many times hidden in plain view within the entertainment districts of major urban centers. A passionate and intimate portrayal of the gender-bending performers as they cavort, both on and off the stage, Hata exposes this elusive subculture for the entire world to see. The results are campy and combustible images of drag performers going full tilt. Glitter, glamour, sequins, and seediness are all on display, up-close and unrestrained. Including an essay on Hata's photographs-and the world they examine-The Night Is Still Young captures and contextualizes drag culture in Japan at the turn of the century, and is the ultimate primary-source document of this otherwise obscure scene.
Tokyo, 1955-1970
Author: Doryun Chong
Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 0870708341
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCatalog of an exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Nov. 18, 2012-Feb. 25, 2013.
Butoh
Author: Mark Holborn
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Aperture
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 136
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Butoh Ethan Hoffman creates virtually a new genre of photographic theater and gives us an invaluable contribution to the literature of contemporary dance and theater. 100 full-color photographs.
Perspective of Nudes
Author: Bill Brandt
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Published: 1961
Total Pages: 128
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKHijikata
Author: Stephen Barber
Publisher: Solar East
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780982046432
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHijikita: Revolt of the Body examines the life and work of Tatsumi Hijikata (1928-86), who invented a revolutionary performance art and dance known as Ankoku Butoh, or "Dance of Darkness." The Butoh style of performance and movement premiered in Japan in 1959 and developed in subsequent years in response to the student riots and the 1960s protest movement. Hijikata is the supreme figure in the last half-century of Japan's experimental culture, and he remains a seminal and inspirational presence for Japanese artists, choreographers, film-makers, musicians, and writers. Based on extended interviews with Hijikata's family and all of his surviving collaborators, this is the only book to focus exclusively on Hijikata and his work, including his interest in European art and figures such as Genet, Artaud, Sade, and Lautréamont, as well as the Japanese Surrealist movement. It also provides a unique, in-depth analysis of Japanese avant-garde culture of the 1960s--including film, visual art, and literature--in direct relation to Hijikata's performance pieces. Butoh and Hijikata's performance art continue to grow in popularity and appreciation around the world, and this text is the definitive study of Hijikata and his radical art. "A brilliant and illuminating study of Hijikata and the Japanese avant-garde"--Donald Richie
Japanese Photobooks of the 1960s and '70s
Author: 金子隆一
Publisher: Aperture Direct
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 334
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring the 1960s and 70s in Japan, the photobookthrough a combination of excellence in design, printing, and materialsovertook prints as a popular mode of artistic dissemination. This process has expanded to an extent where any discussion of Japanese photography now has to include the book work. Today, the most famous workssuch as Nobuyoshi Arakis Sentimental Journey and Eikoh Hosoes Man and Womancontinue to inspire artists internationally. Japanese Photobooks of the 1960s and 70s presents forty definitive publications from the era, piecing together an otherwise invisible history that has played out in tandem with photography as a medium. Included are some of the most influential works along with forgotten gems, placed within a larger historical and sociological context. Each book, beautifully reproduced through numerous spreads, is accompanied by an in-depth explanatory text and sidebars highlighting important editors, designers, themes, and periodicals. Lavishly produced, this unique publication is an ode to the distinct character and influence of the Japanese photobook.
