Shinjuku
Rolleiflex 2,8 GX
Photographer: Manuel van Dyck portfolio site / tumblr
Yanaka
Nikon F4E with 45mm f2.8 Nikkor-P lens
Yanaka Cemetery
Leica M2 with 90mm f4 Elmar lens and aftermarket M-grip
1. Nobuyoshi Araki, Hitomachi, 1999 (Junposha)
2. Nobuyoshi Araki, Tokyo Aruki, (Shinchosha 2009)
3. Himalayan Cedar, Yanaka, Tokyo, March 2017
If I had to give a single spot in the city that could sum up everything I love about Tokyo, it’d be here at the base of this gigantic tree in Yanaka.
Ueno Park
Olympus Pen D
Ueno Park
Nikon FM2/T with 45mm 2.8 Nikkor-P lens
Seen: 「写狂老人A」アラーキ―＠ISETAN -後期高齢書- Photo Maniac A: Arachy @ Isetan: Writings of an old man
Who: Nobuyoshi Araki
Where: Isetan Art Gallery, Shinjuku
When: April 5 - April 11, 2017
“Photo” might be technically be in the title- but there is not a single photograph in Araki’s exhibition at Isetan department store’s fifth floor gallery in Shinjuku. His unique approach to Japanese calligraphy has long been a guest-star in his work- often written directly on his photographs themselves. Here he has matched a brush with his legendary literary wit for a series of often humorous or cheeky expressions. English subtitles for each piece would have been nice- but some defy direct translation.
A table of colorful Araki-themed items for sale in the gallery will be of interest to his many fans. In addition to several photobooks there’s plates, towels, a shirt & canvas handbag, and a writing set as well.
more info & images: Fashion Snap
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This exhibition is a precursor to several major and simultaneous Araki exhibitions that are scheduled for 2017. Fans of Araki’s oeuvre are in for a very interesting summer…
Nippon Camera Office
Nikon F with 35mm f2 Nikkor lens
Seen: Spotlight
Where: Totem Pole Photo Gallery, Shinjuku
When: April 4 - April 16, 2017 / 12:00 - 7:00pm (closed Mondays)
This is Fuchikami’s fifth exhibition since joining the gallery in 2015. He works consistently with a supremely basic setup, a Pentax 67 and 105 mm lens , a heavy camera that he always has with him. The people of Tokyo comprise his subject matter and his frank, non-exploitive, and often beautiful portraits put him closer and closer with each exhibition in league (as I’ve said here before) with the great Tokyo street portraitists- Issei Suda, Seiji Kurata, Katsumi Watanabe, Haruto Hoshi,Shinya Arimoto.
Fuchikami is a fine darkroom printer, but for his previous exhibition in this series he had his negatives scanned and printed much larger as inkjet prints. Keep in mind most photographers shoulder the total cost of exhibiting work in tokyo- from prints to gallery rental to promotional postcards- and It turned out that his digital print method cost MORE than his usual darkroom process. So, he went back to silver gelatin prints for Spotlight. Good for him. His work deserves the beauty, longevity, luminescence, depth, luminosity and dignity that traditional darkroom prints inherently possess. These are traits that digital simply cannot match, much less surpass.
Photographs are NOT simply “about the image”- While it shouldn’t take precedence over the picture, the How is inseparable from the experience of viewing a piece in person. In this case, for these pictures and the people in them, he made the right choice in terms of medium.
Yanaka
Konica Hexar RF with Leica 35mm f2 Summicron V4 lens
Photographer: www.camerafilmlens.com
Nezu
Adox Golf II
Shinjuku
Pentax ME with 50mm f1.7 SMC Pentax-A lens
Ueno Park
Olympus XA2
Shinjuku
Leica M2 with 50mm f2 Summicron DR lens with Cub & Co. strap
Photographer: azrie.jp / instagram 1 / instagram 2
Nishi-Nippori
Leica M2 with 50mm f2 Rigid Summicron lens
Photographer: lili_chong_06
Minowa
Fujifilm Klasse W
Shinjuku meetup
Leica MP, Nikon FE, Pentax 67, Contax T3D, Contax T3, Olympus Pen Fv, Konica Recorder
muju:
Model shooting session.
Japan, place and date unknown.
More Japanese found photography from muju’s collection
