BnF Explores Eighty Years of Japanese Photography in 300 Works
From 30 September 2026 to 31 January 2027, the Bibliothèque nationale de France will host "Photographies japonaises de la Bibliothèque nationale de France. Scènes, signes, sensations" at its François-Mitterrand location in Paris. This exhibition showcases 300 pieces, comprising 250 photographic prints and around fifty rare books, representing eighty years of Japanese photography. Curators Héloïse Conésa, Dominique Versavel, and Yoshiaki Kai have included nearly one hundred photographers in the display. The BnF's collection of modern Japanese photography began in the late 1960s and now encompasses almost 4,000 prints. The exhibition delves into themes ranging from postwar trauma to cultural interactions with France, highlighting various styles and providing a comprehensive overview of Japanese photography's history.
Fatti principali
- The exhibition runs from 30 September 2026 to 31 January 2027 at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, François-Mitterrand site, Galerie 2, Quai François Mauriac, Paris.
- It presents 300 works, including about 250 photographic prints — largely black and white — and roughly fifty rare books and publications.
- Curators are BnF chief curators Héloïse Conésa and Dominique Versavel, with Yoshiaki Kai, professor of photography history at Niigata University.
- Around one hundred photographers are featured, spanning eighty years of Japanese photographic production.
- The BnF's Département des Estampes et de la photographie holds nearly 4,000 prints by about 200 photographers and reporters, plus around one hundred magazines and books on Japanese photography from 1945 onward.
- The BnF began systematically collecting modern and contemporary Japanese photography in the late 1960s, when few Western institutions did so.
- Hiroshi Hamaya was the first Japanese photographer to join Magnum, in 1960.
- Tokuko Ushioda's series "Ice Box" was made between 1978 and 1985 by photographing the inside of her home-studio refrigerator.
Entità
Artisti
- Héloïse Conésa
- Dominique Versavel
- Yoshiaki Kai
- Mami Kiyoshi
- Hiromi Tsuchida
- Yukari Chikura
- Satoru Kondo
- Hiroshi Hamaya
- Shigeo Gochō
- Tokuko Ushioda
- Shōji Ueda
- Eikō Hosoe
- Yuki Onodera
- Ihei Kimura
- Yoshi Takata
- Keiichi Tahara
- Mamoru Sakamoto
- Jun Shiraoka
- Ken Domon
- Toshio Shibata
- Takehiko Nakafuji
- Shōmei Tōmatsu
- Yasuhiro Ishimoto
- Sayuri Ichida
- Jean-Claude Lemagny
- Daidō Moriyama
- Takuma Nakahira
- Yutaka Takanashi
- Kazuto Miura
- Masao Sekiguchi
- William Klein
- Tanizaki
- Foujita
- Ozu
- Pierre Cardin
- Rinko Kawauchi
- Chieko Shiraishi
- Aaron Siskind
- Harry Callahan
- Lee Friedlander
- Garry Winogrand
- Diane Arbus
- Eriko Koga
- Robert Doisneau
- Kikuji Kawada
- Christine Coste
- Éva Hameau
- Élisabeth Santacreu
- Arthur Jafa
- Claude Monet
- Auguste Bartholdi
- Yoko Yamamoto
- Shoji Ueda
- Hiroto Fujimoto
- Kazuo Amemiya
- Koichiro Kurita
- Sayuki Inoue
- Toshiko Hashimoto
Istituzioni
- Bibliothèque nationale de France
- BnF Département des Estampes et de la photographie
- Magnum
- Niigata University
- InsideArt
- Beaux Arts Magazine
- Provoke
- Konpora Shashin
- Nikon
- Canon
- Maison européenne de la photographie
- Institute of Design
- Mrac – Musée régional d'art contemporain Occitanie / Pyrénées Méditerranée
- Jeu de Paume
- Le Journal des Arts
- Frac
- New Museum
- Musée Marmottan Monet
- Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF)
- MEM (Tokyo)
- BnF François-Mitterrand
Luoghi
- Paris
- France
- Japan
- Tokyo
- Miyazaki Prefecture
- Nishimera Village
- Asakusa
- Roppongi
- Niigata
- Okinawa
- Hiroshima
- Chicago
- United States
- New York
- Lorraine
- Quai François-Mauriac
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