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Daido Moriyama on the Unending Newness of Photographs

The legendary artist speaks about why photography never reaches a state of completion.

How Yurie Nagashima’s Self-Portraits Interrogate the Male Gaze

In her latest photobook, the Japanese photographer discusses self-portraiture as a radical feminist gesture.

Minimal, Messy, or Melancholic?

The many faces of “home” in Japanese photography.

Father Figure

Masahisa Fukase transformed the ritual of the family portrait into a source of play—and a memento mori.

A Japanese Photographer’s Encounters with Natural Disasters

Eight years after a devastating tsunami, Lieko Shiga investigates Japan’s haunted landscapes.

A Japanese Photographer’s Gleefully Chaotic Family Life

At home in Japan, Motoyuki Daifu captures his family with gleeful candor.

Can a Feminist Embrace Araki?

At the Museum of Sex, a new look at the prolific—and provocative—Japanese photographer.

Delirious Tokyo

In a new exhibition, Daido Moriyama returns to his icons and obsessions.

The Endless Outer World

Daido Moriyama speaks about his Provoke days and capturing the streets of Tokyo.

Tokyo Reimagined

As Japan’s capital transformed, Yutaka Takanashi deployed a radical style to picture urban change.

A Witness to Resistance

From student demonstrations to farmers in revolt, Kazuo Kitai captured the social tumult of 1960s Japan.

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.

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.

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.

Tomatsu on the Americans (Video)

A panel discussion on Japanese photographer Shomei Tomatsu at Aperture gallery.

Rupture, Reconnection: The Photography of Eikoh Hosoe (Video)

A panel discussion on the career and influence of Japanese Photographer Eikoh Hosoe.
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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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