Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Historical Photographer: Eikoh Hosoe

http://www.401projects.com/index.php?mode=gallery&section_id=153

Eikoh Hosoe was born in Yonezawa, Yamagata in 1933 and graduated from Tokyo College of Photography in 1951. He has established himself as an internationally acclaimed photographer after his first solo exhibition in 1956. Hosoe's figures have a Surrealist quality that is intimate, while also abtract and strange.  His approach to photography is philosophical. Hosoe believes that photography can be a record and a mirror of self-expression.
To describe Hosoe's work, Yukio Mishima said, "God is dead, and naked human beings face the world shamelessly and without pride."

A Private Landscape, 1971

Ordeal by Roses, 1961

Butoh Dancer, 1972

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