Exploring the Canon of Japanese Women Photographers
Aperture Conversations
Exploring the Canon of Japanese Women Photographers
Friday, November 22
6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. EST
Join Aperture at Leica Gallery New York for a conversation delving into the recent publication I’m So Happy You Are Here: Japanese Women Photographers from the 1950s to Now (Aperture, 2024). Panelists Lesley A. Martin, former creative director at Aperture and editor of this title, Pauline Vermare, Phillip and Edith Leonian Curator of Photography at the Brooklyn Museum and coeditor of this title, and Carrie Cushman, a photo-historian and contributor to this title, will discuss significant Japanese women photographers and integral artworks that have shaped Japanese photography as a whole.
This program is presented in partnership with Leica Gallery. RSVP is required. Please email education@aperture.org to reserve a seat.
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Lesley A. Martin is executive director of Printed Matter, New York, and editor of I’m So Happy You Are Here: Japanese Women Photographers from the 1950s to Now. Previously, she was the creative director of Aperture, where she served as editor on more than one hundred fifty books, and was the founding publisher of The PhotoBook Review.
Pauline Vermare is the Phillip and Edith Leonian Curator of Photography at the Brooklyn Museum, and the coeditor of I’m So Happy You Are Here: Japanese Women Photographers from the 1950s to Now. She was previously the cultural director of Magnum Photos, New York, and a curator at the International Center of Photography in New York, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation, Paris.
Carrie Cushman is the Edith Dale Monson Gallery Director and Curator at the Hartford Art School. She holds a PhD in art history from Columbia University and is a specialist in postwar and contemporary art and photography from Japan. She contributed “The Japanese Women Who Transformed Photography” to I’m So Happy You Are Here: Japanese Women Photographers from the 1950s to Now.
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Image: Ishikawa Mao, Kin, Koza (present-day Okinawa City), Okinawa Prefecture, 1975–77; from the series Akabanaa (Red flower). Courtesy Nap Gallery, Tokyo, and Aperture
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