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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Japan’s iconic sites such as Itsukushima Shrine, Kyoto’s Philosopher’s Path, and Tokyo Skytree, along with China’s spiritual Mount Fanjingshan, are emerging as standout draws in Asia’s growing ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A photograph can reveal a lot about people and the places where they live. But, as Emiko Jozuka writes for Motherboard, it can also deceive. Photographs from 19th-century Japan portray an "exoticised" ...

“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.