Attractive Signage
My image of Manhattan was a big busy, crowded city. Many neon signs in Times Square might have brought me that idea of crowdedness. In fact, the street was full of people, and they were shouting and cars were honking all night. On the other hand, very early in the morning there was a short time of silence. I felt kind of awkward going to bed with lots of noise and waking up to almost no sounds…Read the rest of this article
Parsons The New School for Design
“Parsons The New School for Design” people know the name, but others don’t know it. Before, I was the latter. On the second day of our trip in NY, we visited the school. The people welcomed us warmly, and showed us around the school. Of course, the school buildings were larger than our school, and they were fully equipped, but the contents of study and form of class work was the same as…Read the rest of this article
New Museum is Hell... Yes?
New Museum is literally a new museum located in Bowery, which is supposed to be one of the new cool hip neighborhoods in New York city. I imagined New Museum to be sub-cultural, much more modern than the MoMA. I was expecting this trip to New Museum would be something exciting and inspiring. However, it turned out rather gloomy and distant, besides the fact that it was unlike a museum, but a…Read the rest of this article
Change the World
Sometimes we need fellows to confront hardship, but it can be a special opportunity to meet people who have a same determination. They make the group stronger and give us the chance to overcome hardship even those which are impossible for one person to solve. The power of company makes a person strong and makes impossible things to possible, even changing the world. Magnum Photos is the most…Read the rest of this article
Jacques-Henri-Lartigue
Jacques-Henri was a French photographer who is known as a genius in photograph in France. He was born in 1894 and was brought up in a wealthy family. When he was eight years old, his father gave him a camera. He was fascinated with it that was valuable at that time. He began to keep a photo diary and created photo albums. He continued to do it for his entire life. He liked taking pictures…Read the rest of this article
Photographer - Yoshikazu Shirakawa
Yoshikazu Shirakawa was born in Ehime in 1935. He is known to the world as a photographer who challenges nature such as the Alps and Himalayas. Especially, taking a picture of the waterfall is important for him because he feels “water” is the source of all lives. He graduated The Photography Section of Department of Art at Japan University. He worked as Art and Literature producer…Read the rest of this article
The Man Behind and In Front; Introducing Terry Richardson
Terry Richardson is a famous American fashion photographer. He was born in Southern California in 1965 and now lives in New York. He is influenced by his fashion photographer father, Bob Richardson, and combined a passion for fashion with a sense of 70’s cinematic realism. He captures real people. People are his fashion as he believes “photographs are more about people than…Read the rest of this article
Michael Kenna
Michael Kenna, The landscape photographer, was born in England in 1953. Michael created dream-like scenes by combining innovative and traditional photographic techniques. He traveles around the world to countrues such as Brazil, Mexico, China, India, and Japan to take that beautiful and attractive photos.
Kenna’s works are characterized by their attractive composition and beautiful…Read the rest of this article
Man Ray
Man Ray was an American Dada and Surrealist artist. He born Emmanuel Radnizky in 1890 Philadelphia. When he was seven years old, he moved to New York, and there he was influenced by important modern art movement in “291” gallery Stieglitz. He learned drawing in high school, and then he worked as a merchant artist but he continued painting pictures. In 1915, he inaugurated the New York Dada…Read the rest of this article
August Sander
August Sander was a Germany photographer famous for his mastery of document photography. Born in 1876, his career started as an assistant of commercial photographer, later he founded his studio. He got many prizes for his picturesque farmer’s pictures. However, in 1918, he met many modern artists of Marxism. Later that he thought of big project “People of 20 century” under the influence…Read the rest of this article
Takashi Murakami
Murakami Takashi is the one of famous Japanese pop artist. His works are inspired by ukiyoe print and otaku culture. It is the Japanese original culture. He mixed them and flat element like Japanese paint. Especially the animation and figure of pretty girl are famous as his work. He is accepted Japanese people now. However, when he published his first work, they did not receive. They said the…Read the rest of this article
Toy Camera
Digital Camera, which uses no film, has recently gained popularity. Ironically, just when film cameras are beginning to disappear cheap Toy cameras have gained great popularity among teenagers in Japan. Most of the Toy cameras are made in Russia or China and are very inexpensive.
They are manufactured cheaply and most of them are defective, so you have to prepare yourself for…Read the rest of this article
Destiny Deacon
Destiny Deacon is a leading Australian Indigenous (aboriginal) contemporary artist /photographer. She was born in Queensland as the child of former inhabitant family of Erub-Mer tribe, and raised in Melbourne. Since she is an Aborigine, she shows harsh reality through her photography; how the native people are criticized and discriminated by the society and culture. She just had her exhibition in…Read the rest of this article
Mika Ninagawa
Mika Ninagawa is one of the famous photographer, born in Tokyo. In 2001, she got a prize is the most worth. At present, she set out in fashion magazine and CD jacket, advertisement etc. she also hold her exhibition actively. She has a high popularity among young people by the vivid color called “ninagawa color” and her own world is like being between practical and impractical. Her father is a…Read the rest of this article
Ogawa Kazumasa
Ogawa Kazumasa was a successful Japanese photographer in Meiji period. He was said as the starter in the improvemnet of Japanese photography and photomechanical printing. He was born in Saitama, under the Matsudaira Samurai clan. At the age of fifteen, he started learning English and photography. In 1882, he went to Boston for getting skills of portrait photography and dry plate process. He also…Read the rest of this article
Daido Moriyama, Photographer
Daido Moriyama is the one of the most influential photographers in Japan known for his dynamic style of photograph. He was born in 1938 in Osaka and first he started his career as an industrial designer when he was 20 years old. But one year later, he began to take photos. He was a camera assistant for a few years after joining a photo workshop, he became a freelance photographer in 1963.
He…Read the rest of this article
Araki Nobuyoshi
Nobuyoshi Araki is famous photographer from Japan who takes many glamour and nude. He was born in 1940 in Tokyo. He majored photography in Chiba university and graduated 1963. After that, he entered an advertising agency in 1963, but he quit there in 1972 and to be freelance now. In1988, he set up a company with Nobuhiko Anzai and Shiro Tamiya called “AaT ROOM”
When a photographer takes…Read the rest of this article
Shigeo Gocho
Shigeo Gocho was a Japanese photographer who focused on people throughout his life. He was born in Niigata, a small town in Japan. He suffered from thoracic vertebra caries as a child and was told he wouldn’t live beyond 20. Though he lived until the age of 38, the disease handicapped him physically so he had to walk with a stick even when he went out for taking pictures.His journey to being a…Read the rest of this article
Nalu Ola, Hawaii - Pipeline
Denjiro Sato is a famous Japanese photographer of surfing. He was born in 1952. He became interested in surfing, when he was 20. And visited California for sightseeing. He decided to move to Hawaii. And lived in Owafu Island, where he took many pictures. His picture appeared in a book. Called “Big Wave”. Denjiro Sato discovered earth’s power, when he began surfing. Specially, he felt the…Read the rest of this article
Hosoe Eikou
Man and Woman #24, 1960
Hosoe Eikou is a Japanese photographer first famous for his book of photographs named “Man and Women ”. His father gave him a camera when he was fifteen years old in 1950 At that time Japan was under US occupation, so people doesn’t have freedom of expression he started his career from this year.“Man and Woman” was published in 1960 year of the US-Japan…Read the rest of this article
Oliver Wasow
Photographer Oliver Wasow was born in Madison,Wisconsin in 1960. Now, he is 46 years old and living in New York City. He is teaching for student to Digital Imaging and Photo Critique at School of Visual Arts of Bard College in NY. Before that, he was also teaching at some university. At the same time, He is taking pictures that are magazines, CD covers, and book covers. In 2000, he produced an…Read the rest of this article
At the Time of the Louisville Flood: 1937
Margaret Bourke-White was an American photographer and photo journalist. She was born in the Bronx, New York in 1906. She studied at Columbia University, and while there she was interested in photograph. After switching colleges several times, she started her career as an industrial photographer at the Otis Steel Company. In 1930, she became the first Western photographer allowed into the Soviet…Read the rest of this article
Jonas Bendiksen
Jonas Bendiksen is a Norwegian photographer born in 1977, famous for his beautiful works. In 1996 when he was 19, he moved to Russia and he started his career as a journalist. He worked for several years there and he moved to New York.He is famous for his photos which have hidden messages. He usually works at dangerous places adversely affected by dangers such as war or pollution. He always…Read the rest of this article