Eikoh Hosoe

Eikoh Hosoe is a Photographe Japan board, born the March 18th 1933.

Artistic biography

The documentary style seems to be the only manner of tackling the subject of the atomic bomb. However Eikoh Hosoe evoked to him personal memories in its work, by a theatrical and mythical style. This visual language being really different from what one could see in a culture considered for his authority.

In the Années 1950, when it was still student, Eikoh Hosoe photographed the male prostitutes as all that touched with the small glaucous streets and other equivocal bars of Tokyo. The goal being to show a company in full evolution, it adopted a certain documentary point of view which it gave up quickly. In 1959 its meeting with Tatsumi Hijikata (a young dancer), made him take a way definitely more theatrical than the documentary traditional one. Allured by the spectacle considered to be scandalous of Hijikata (an adaptation of a novel of Mishima approaching topics like the erotism and homosexuality), Eikoh Hosoe succeeds in convincing Hijikata to work with him on its film Navel and Atomic bomb , a mythical and démoniaque ballet. The physical presence of Tatsumi Hijikata was attractive almost divine, unthinkable thing in a culture where the naked one does not exist.

The body thus became an obsession for Eikoh Hosoe and the work of the writer Yukio Mishima a major project in its work. Of its first book, " Man and Woman" who is built as a spectacle where its naked sensual would be a repairing place in a destroyed company, or " The Cosmos off Gaudi" where the architecture of Barcelona is seen like the curves of an human body whose bodies are constructions of Gaudí, to the settings in narcissistic scenes of Mishima in " Ordeal by Roses" or spell-bindings of Tatsumi Hijikata in " Kamaitachi" , Eikoh Hosoe wants to show the gasoline of the things through the settings in theatrical scenes which it works out.

Inspired by its contemporaries such as Bill Brandt, Ansel Adams or Edward Weston as well as the Buddhist religion and shintoïste, Eikoh Hosoe becomes the Master of an imperturbable and crowned search Beau. Photographer, realizer of film, professor, writer or director of the museum KMoPa, Eikoh Hosoe are one of Large contemporary Japanese photography. And in spite of Japanese mentality, the magnifiée presence of the naked body was for him not only one visual research, but also a reflection on the identity and ego.

Biography

1933 : birth of Toshihiro Hosoe in Yonezawa the March 18th
1933-45: schooling with Tokyo during the bomberdements where it is evacuated
1952: its photograph poddie-Chan is worth to him the price of the contest of photographs Fuji, section students. It will be registered shortly after at the school of photography of Tokyo
1953: adhere to the artistic group Demokrato
1954: becomes independent Photographe after his studies
1956: great success for its first exposure " Year american girl in Tokyo" , a fictionalized photographic account
1960: Hosoe founds with Kawada, Sato, Tanno, Narahara and Tamatsu agency VIVO. It carries out also " navel and atomic bombe"
1961: rewarded by the price for the most promising photographer decreed by association for criticisms for photo Japanese.
1961-63: Hosoe carries out portraits of Mishima, works " killed by roses" is réconpensé by the price of the company of photographic criticism
1964: carry out a film with Kon Ichikawa for the Olympic Games of Tokyo
1970-71: collaborate with Mishima for a new edition of " Barakei". But Mishima commits suicide before the publication of the book
1972: teach and directs workshops in the universities of Phoenix, Columbia and Yosemite.
1974: take part with Nobuyoshi Araki, and Daido Moriyama with the installation of the " photograph worskhop school" from Tokyo
1975: sees itself offering a place to the school of photography of Tokyo.
1976-84: create a series of photographs on the architecture of Gaudi, published in " The comos off Gaudi" and accompanied by drawings of Miro
1987: goes to New York for an intensive workshop on pulling platinizes and returns to Japan with an apparatus 20x 24 qu ' it manufactured.
1991-98: represented by Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York City; its exposure " Eikoh Hosoe: META" who will be itinerant until the year 2000, is inaugurated in Internetional Center off Photography.

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