Open lecture: Japan, ambiguous photography, and myself
Lecture
Date and time
23 November 2011 at 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM
Place and route
Svarta havet
Konstfack, LM Ericssons väg 14, Stockholm (Look at a map)
Underground station: Telefonplan
Tokyo and My Daughter (Photo: Takashi Homma)
Open lecture: Takashi Homma "Japan, ambiguous photography, and myself" - recent history of Japanese photography.
Takashi Homma, one of the most internationally recognized Japanese photographers in the front lines of contemporary photography give a lecture at Konstfack on Japanese photography and his works.
His lecture is based on personal experience and from his perspective as a professional photographer. He will talk about his series of exhibitions, "New Documentary" - highly successful in Japan - that are being presented this year. He will also provide a historical survey of the paths that Japan has followed in pursuit of unique and ambiguous impressions. He will describe the breakout from Pictorialism made by Nobuo Ina around 1932 and continue up to the present day, describing the situation of those photographers in the 1990's, equally at home in the fields of media and the fine arts, including Rinko Kawauchi, Masafumi Sanai and Homma himself; also the trend that emerged around 2000 and is now followed by young talents such as Tomoko Yoneda, Yumiko Utsu, Kozue Takagi, Taisuke Koyaman and, again, by Takashi Homma himself.
Organizer
Department of Fine Art, Registrar's Office
About Takashi Homma
Born and based in Tokyo Homma's photography has a distinctive style that rejects any sentimentality and portrays the subject with a characteristic sense of distance and tonality.
In 1999 he received the 24th Kimura Ihei Photography Award for his series "Tokyo Suburbia", in which he focused on suburban residential areas in and around Tokyo.
In 2004 he released a documentary film on the legendary photographer, Takuma Nakahira, called "Kiwamete Yoi Fuukei: Short Hope" together with the photobook under the same title.
Two years later the Swiss publisher Nieves brought out the short and intimate "Tokyo and my Daughter", a photobook with 32 colour images of a young girl from birth to the age of six, intertwined with images from the city.
In 2008, Homma's monograph was released internationally for the first time outside of Japan. He has become the first Japanese contemporary artist to be published by Aperture.
His first traveling exhibition New Documentary started from Kanazawa 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanzawa in January 2011 and travel to Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery and MIMOCA Museum in Kagawa until September 2012.