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 ...

Pioneering Japanese photographer, filmmaker, and professor Eikoh Hosoe passed away on September 16, in Tokyo at the age of 91. Renowned for his striking high-contrast black-and-white images, Hosoe is ...

Most photographs of real-life events tend to be documentary by nature, but the kind of photographic image-making that makes a point of approaching its subjects with an “objective” viewpoint and a ...

There's no way you can really reduce the photographic history of a place to just a few artists, let alone two. But the curators at an L.A. museum... There's no way you can really reduce the ...

Mitchell and Abby got to experience the (overwhelming) magic of a Yodobashi camera store for the first time on their trip to ...

For a New World to Come: Experiments in Japanese Art and Photography, 1968–1979 offers an ambitious social and art history of a decade ignited by protest, shaped by global power dynamics, and ...

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 ...

Ishimoto Yasuhiro (b. 1921), trained by Harry Callahan at the Institute of Design (or “New Bauhaus”) in Chicago and widely acknowledged as one of the most influential Japanese photographers of his ...

Last summer New York-based photographer Hiroyuki Ito set out on a five-week trip with his wife, traveling through Japan on a JR Pass. The discounted train pass, which is sold through the Japan ...

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 ...

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 ...