Title & Author:

Setting sun : writings by Japanese photographers / introduction by Anne Wilkes Tucker ; edited by Ivan Vartanian, Akihiro Hatanaka, Yutaka Kanbayashi.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

New York : Aperture ; London : Thames & Hudson [distributor], 2006.

Description:

224 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Why So Personal? / Anne Wilkes Tucker -- Realism 20 -- Photographic Realism and the Salon Picture / Ken Domon 22 -- The Man Who Said: "I Saw It! I Saw It!" and Passed It By / Shomei Tomatsu 28 -- Toward a Chaotic Sea / Shomei Tomatsu 30 -- The Decision to Shoot / Daido Moriyama 34 -- Camp Story Playback / Seiji Kurata 37 -- Landscapes 41 -- Squinting Landscape Discourse: Photographing the San'in Region, 40 Years / Shoji Ueda 43 -- The "Landscape" Appears / Yutaka Takanashi 46 -- Temporary Ruins / Ryuji Miyamoto 50 -- Photography as Another Reality / Shigeo Gocho 52 -- Memory and Time 54 -- Adieu-Wiedersehen / Seiichi Furuya 56 -- Family / Masahisa Fukase 65 -- Time's Fossil / Daido Moriyama 72 -- The Silence of Photographs / Ryuji Miyamoto 77 -- Bleached Journal / Hiroshi Sugimoto 79 -- Media 83 -- Self-Change in the Act of Shooting / Takuma Nakahira 86 -- From Postwar Japan to Travels West / Ihei Kimura 89 -- From Document to Memory / Daido Moriyama 95 -- Photo Log 105 -- Lime Works / Naoya Hatakeyama 108 -- Highway / Daido Moriyama 115 -- Excerpt from "Why an Illustrated Botanical Dictionary?" / Takuma Nakahira 125 -- Notes on Photographing Barakei / Eikoh Hosoe 132 -- Man/Woman 141 -- The Photo Apparatus Between Man and Woman / Nobuyoshi Araki 143 -- Photographic Discourse as Strip Show / Nobuyoshi Araki 147 -- Not six / Yurie Nagashima 154 -- A Connection Called Looking / Miyako Ishiuchi 159 -- Sentimentalism 162 -- My Mother's Death, or, An Introduction to Family Photography / Nobuyoshi Araki 165 -- My Father's Lover, or, An Introduction to Portrait Photography / Nobuyoshi Araki 175 -- Ravens: The End / Masahisa Fukase 188 -- Car of Mine / Masafumi Sanai 193 -- Something Like a Sunset / Takashi Homma.

Summary:

Japanese photographers have a very different tradition from that of their Western counterparts. Their work is based on ideas, rules, and aesthetics that are specific to Japanese culture. This is an anthology of key texts written from the 1950s to the present by leading Japanese photographers.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents only

ISBN:

1931788839
9781931788830

Subject:

Araki, Nobuyoshi, 1940-
Moriyama, Daido, 1938-
Tomatsu, Shomei.
Photography, Artistic.
Photography Japan.
Photographers Japan Biography.
Photographie artistique.
Photographes Japon Biographies.
art photography.
Photographers
Photography
Fotografie
Fotografia artística Século 20 Japão.
Japan

Form/genre:

Biographies

Added entries:

Vartanian, Ivan, 1972-
Hatanaka, Akihiro.
Kambayashi, Yutaka.

Writings by Japanese photographers

Holdings:

Location: Library main 318718
Call No.: 318718
Status: Available