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 144
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 144
ISBN: 9782330064716
