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Eikoh Hosoe is one of the great names in Japanese photography. At the age of eighty-eight, the influence and mastery of this artist, whose work has never ceased to challenge and question the very soul of Japanese culture, are as fertile as ever. A friend of writer Yukio Mishima and Tatsumi Hijikata (founder of butô), he embodies the avant-garde of Japanese creation. It is around the representation of the body - and particularly nudity, a strict taboo in Japanese civilization - and its sensuality, that his art focuses and develops, in a fundamentally innovative photographic language and style where the grain of the image, its staging, its contrasts and its almost baroque aesthetic impose a vision that in many ways can be perceived as revolutionary.
Publisher Actes Sud
Release date 2018
Pages
ISBN 9782330064716
Eikoh Hosoe is one of the great names in Japanese photography. At the age of eighty-eight, the influence and mastery of this artist, whose work has never ceased to challenge and question the very soul of Japanese culture, are as fertile as ever. A friend of writer Yukio Mishima and Tatsumi Hijikata (founder of butô), he embodies the avant-garde of Japanese creation. It is around the representation of the body - and particularly nudity, a strict taboo in Japanese civilization - and its sensuality, that his art focuses and develops, in a fundamentally innovative photographic language and style where the grain of the image, its staging, its contrasts and its almost baroque aesthetic impose a vision that in many ways can be perceived as revolutionary.
Publisher Actes Sud
Release date 2018
Pages
ISBN 9782330064716
