Eikoh HOSOE Photo Exhibition -Embrace-

September 11 Wed. - September 21 Sat. 2013
OPEN ALL DAYS DURING EXHIBITION.


This exhibition introduces you to Eikoh HOSOE's ex-large photo series "Embrace".
Works which can be regarded as a sequel of Hosoe's "Man and Woman", they capture simple beauty of a human body, with a contrast of a black male body and a white female body.

Eikoh HOSOE (1933-)
Photographer, the director of Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Art

1933- Born in Yonezawa, Yamagata prefecture (real name Toshiro Hosoe).
1952- His photograph, "Padie-Chan" won the first prize in the student group of Fuji Photo Contest. The award encouraged him to pursue photography seriously and later enrolled at Tokyo College of photography.
1953- Joined the artist's group "Demokrato".
1954- Graduated from Tokyo College of Photography.
1956- First solo exhibition. "An American girl in Tokyo".
1963- Publishes the book "Barakei (Ordeal by Roses)" which features Yukio Mishima.
1969- Published the book "Kamaitachi" featuring Tatsumi Hijikata, Butoh dancer.
1971- Published newly designed version of Barakei (Ordeal by Roses).
1975- Offered a professorship at Tokyo College of Photography.
1998- Awarded the Purple Ribbon Medal.

<Eikoh HOSOE Photo Exhibition -Embrace-> works list 
September 11 Wed. - September 21 Sat. 2013

No.
Image
Title Date Medium Measurement
Ed.
Sign
1
"Embrace #3, 1970" 1970
Printed later
Digital pigment print S size
125×100cm
10
Signed
2
"Embrace #7, 1969" 1969
Printed later
Digital pigment print S size
125×100cm
10
Signed
3
"Embrace #11, 1969" 1969
Printed later
Digital pigment print S size
100×125cm
10
Signed
4
"Embrace #31, 1969" 1969
Printed later
Digital pigment print S size
100×100cm
10
Signed
5
"Embrace #43, 1970" 1970
Printed later
Digital pigment print S size
125×100cm
10
Signed
6
"Embrace #48, 1970" 1970
Printed later
Digital pigment print Lサイズ
150×188cm
3
Signed
7
"Embrace #59, 1970" 1970
Printed later
Digital pigment print S size
125×100cm
10
Signed

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