Seen: Place M Collection
Who: Daido Moriyama, Issei Suda, Keizo Kitajima, Aya Fujioka, W. Eugene Smith, Robert Frank, Hiroh Kikai, Hajime Sawatari, Masato Seto
Where: Place M, Shinjuku
When: July 6 - 12, 2020
This is an exhibition of select prints from Masato Seto’s print collection- and what a collection it is! Original silver gelatin prints by Daido Moriyama, Issei Suda, Keizo Kitajima, Aya Fujioka, W. Eugene Smith, Hiroh Kikai, Hajime Sawatari, Masato Seto.
This kind of unassuming show is what Tokyo does so well- no fanfare, no Curatorial Message or text- just pure prints (absolute masterpieces) for you to experience. I was pleased to see one Suda print in particular- it is from the last frame on the last roll of film in his Leica, found after he died. His final photograph. And what a picture. I’m not sharing it here because I don’t want a small square on your smartphone or laptop to be your first view of it. Go see it in person, or wait for the upcoming Issei Suda book that Place M is publishing this fall- I’ve been invited to translate the text and am really looking forward to seeing the book when it’s complete.
Anyway- Place M in Shinjuku.
Photography.
This is the real deal.