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Eikoh Hosoe is one of the leading figures in Japanese photography. At eighty-eight years old, the influence and mastery of this artist—whose work has continually challenged and explored the very soul of Japanese culture—remain as vibrant as ever. A friend of the writer Yukio Mishima and Tatsumi Hijikata (founder of butoh), he embodies the avant-garde of Japanese creativity. His art centers on and develops around the representation of the body—and particularly of nudity, a strict taboo in Japanese civilization—and its sensuality, expressed through a fundamentally innovative photographic language and style in which the grain of the image, its staging, its contrasts, and its quasi-baroque aesthetic impose a vision that in many respects can be perceived as revolutionary.
Publisher Actes Sud
Release date 2018
Pages
ISBN 9782330064716
Eikoh Hosoe is one of the leading figures in Japanese photography. At eighty-eight years old, the influence and mastery of this artist—whose work has continually challenged and explored the very soul of Japanese culture—remain as vibrant as ever. A friend of the writer Yukio Mishima and Tatsumi Hijikata (founder of butoh), he embodies the avant-garde of Japanese creativity. His art centers on and develops around the representation of the body—and particularly of nudity, a strict taboo in Japanese civilization—and its sensuality, expressed through a fundamentally innovative photographic language and style in which the grain of the image, its staging, its contrasts, and its quasi-baroque aesthetic impose a vision that in many respects can be perceived as revolutionary.
Publisher Actes Sud
Release date 2018
Pages
ISBN 9782330064716
