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    Japanese Photography and the Performative
  • Brumen, Matija
The presented authors, Eikõ Hosoe, Yasumasa Morimura, Tomoko Sawada, Daidõ Moriyama, Masashi Asada, Miyako Ishiuchi and Miwa Yanagi use their own bodies or bodies of others for their work with photography and perform predetermined or spontaneous acts of shooting scenarios in public or private spaces.
Robert Capa, Leon Trotski, Kopenhagen / Leon Trotsky, Copenhagen, 8 7/8 x 13 7/16 '', srebro želatinasta fotografija, gelatin silver print, 1931. V / in: Robert Hirsch, Seizing the Light, A Social History of Photography, (ur. Michael Ryan), McGraw Hill 2009, str. 278.
Masashi Asada, iz serije Družina Asada / from the series The Asada Familiy (Asadake), 2007. V / in: Photoworks, Autumn/ Winter, October– April 2009/10, (ur. Gordon MacDonald), The Depot, 100 North Road Brighton bn1 1ye, str.: 31. © Photoworks in / and AKAAKA Art Publishing.
Yasumasa Morimura, Rekviem: Vladimir ponoči, 1920 / A Requiem: Vladimir at Night, 1920, 150 x 187,5 cm, laserski tisk, barvna fotografija / dibond / laserjet / dubond, colour, 2007. V / in: Yasumasa Morimura, Requiem for the XX Century Twilight of The Turbulent Gods, Skira Photography 2007, str. 63.
Bob Jackson, Jack Ruby ustreli Lee Harvey Oswalda / Jack Ruby Shoots Lee Harvey Oswald, Dallas, November 24, 1963, Associated Press. V / in: Michel Frizot, The New History of Photography, (ur. Colin Harding), Könemann 1998, str. 609.
Eikoh Hosoe, Kamaitachi, Aperture 2009.
Miwa Yanagi: Metka / Gretel, iz serije Pravljica / from the series Fairy Tale, 2004. V / in: Christopher Phillips, Noriko Fuku, Heavy Light, Recent photography and video from Japan, International Center of Photography, New York Steidl 2008. str. 222.
Yasumasa Morimura, Rekviem: Levova nebula, 1932 / A Requiem: Nebula of Lev, 1932, 150 x 120 cm, srebro želatinasta fotografija na aluminijasti kompozirni plošči, črno bela fotografija / gelatine silver print mounted on alpolic, black and white, 2007. V / in: Yasumasa Morimura, Requiem for the XX Century Twilight of The Turbulent Gods, Skira Photography 2007, str. 53.
Yasumasa Morimura, Rekviem: Vladimir ponoči, 1920 / A Requiem: Vladimir at Night, 1920, 150 x 187,5 cm, laserski tisk, barvna fotografija / dibond / laserjet / dubond, colour, 2007. V / in: Yasumasa Morimura, Requiem for the XX Century Twilight of The Turbulent Gods, Skira Photography 2007, str. 63.
Yasumasa Morimura, Rekviem: Vladimir ob mraku, 1920 / A Requiem: Vladimir at Dusk, 1920, 150 x 120 cm, srebro želatinasta fotografija na aluminijasti kompozitni plošči, črno bela fotografija / gelatine silver print mounted on alpolic , black and white, 2007. V / in: Yasumasa Morimura, Requiem for the XX Century Twilight of The Turbulent Gods, Skira Photography 2007, str. 61.

The article deals with works of photographers who make their own photographic work using the body, either their own body or body of others, which they dress, undress, manicure, expose to the landscape and society or otherwise explore its boundaries and meanings. The presented authors, Eikõ Hosoe, Yasumasa Morimura, Tomoko Sawada, Daidõ Moriyama, Masashi Asada, Miyako Ishiuchi and Miwa Yanagi use their own bodies or bodies of others for their work with photography and perform predetermined or spontaneous acts of shooting scenarios in public or private spaces. Through these acts they talk about the world and the society in which they live and express their relationship towards it and their position in it. Since they actively approach the topics which are related to the society their approach to photography is socially active.


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