When you're in a country as beautiful as Japan, you'll want to document as much as you can. You'll want to take photos of every meal, every temple, every cherry blossom, every vending machine. The ...
NEW YORK — “The Incomplete Araki” is a knowingly redundant title for an exhibition of Japan’s most prolific, most controversial and most disobedient photographer. For more than 50 years, Nobuyoshi ...
Jean-Vincent Simonet's frenetic photos of Japan aren't your average tourist shots. There are no flowering cherry trees, misty shrines, or snowy peaks—instead, an acid-washed whirl of neon lights, ...
Takeuchi’s meditation on dissident women is at the center of I’m So Happy You Are Here: Japanese Women Photographers from the 1950s to Now, which references these three historical examples, though is ...
Edutainment games are a constant, and the good ones can really leave an impression on you. This is largely due to them being genuinely enjoyable in their own right, so you get an urge to play even if ...
When two U.S. Army photographers set off on a photo-centric journey across Japan, it wasn’t for a deployment or to cover a training exercise — it was a spontaneous adventure born out of friendship, ...
A pair of Japanese schoolgirls primp their hair before a long mirror, preparing for the perfect shot. But they are not taking a smartphone selfie, they are using a "purikura" photo booth. Old-style ...
Photography has evolved immeasurably since its inception in the 1800s. Images can now be snapped on smart phones and shared instantly on social media. This transition has undermined the existence of ...
“The Yamamoto family values were forged in small spaces,” the Japanese photographer Masaki Yamamoto told me recently. For eighteen years, his family of seven coexisted in a one-room apartment in Kobe.
An elongated, lumpy form seems suspended, like a flayed body twisting in the wind. One fears to find a head dangling at its tip, but the form ends in a gnarled, blackened mass instead. “Nagasaki, ...