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Against Occupation

Japanese curator Rei Masuda discusses how postwar Japanese photographers adapted to a new era.

Behind the Barricades

Student protests shook late-1960s Japan. Hitomi Watanabe bore witness from inside the movement.

The Provoke Moment

In the first of an ongoing series of interviews about Japanese photography with Tsuyoshi Ito, Curator Simon Baker discusses the radical new vision of the 1960s.

Erotic Voyeurs of Japanese Photography

Three celebrated photographers push the limits of sexuality and surveillance.

The PhotoBook Review: Photobooks After 3/11

The destruction the Great Tohoku Earthquake and tsunami waves created have profoundly impacted the way art is both made and received in Japan.

Tokyo's Spaces

Journalist Kenji Takazawa provides an essential guide for your next photographic tour of Japan’s capital.

The PhotoBook Review: Collecting the Japanese Photobook, Part Two

A conversation with Manfred Heiting from The PhotoBook Review 008.

Magazine Work

In the new issue of Aperture magazine, Tokyo-based curator Ivan Vartanian offers a look through the pages of the popular magazines of the ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s.

Collecting the Japanese Photobook

Ivan Vartanian spoke to Ryuichi Kaneko about how he became one of the first and most enduring champions of the Japanese photobook.

Interview with Hans Gremmen, designer of Rinko Kawauchi's Ametsuchi

Interview with designer Hans Gremmen about Rinko Kawauchi’s new book, Ametsuchi.

Colin Greenwood on Cuny Janssen, Yoshino

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Rinko Kawauchi On Press – Ametsuchi

Images from the production of Ametsuchi, Rinko Kawauchi’s latest monograph.
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Aperture Magazine No. 261, “The Craft Issue” Cover
Aperture Magazine

Aperture No. 261

Aperture’s issue on craft features photographers who make pictures the slow way—building camera obscuras, creating photograms, and laboring in traditional darkrooms to make handmade, unrepeatable forms.

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