Eikō Hosoe

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Eikō Hosoe (1989)

Eikō Hosoe or Eikoh Hosoe ( Japanese 細 江 英 公 , Hosoe Eikō ; born March 18, 1933 in Yonezawa , Yamagata Prefecture , Japanese Empire ) is a Japanese photographer and film producer .

Life

Hosoe's real first name is Toshihiro ( 敏 廣 ). After the Second World War , however, he took the stage name Eikō to symbolize a new Japan. He spent the war and his school days in Tokyo . At the age of 17 he decided to study at Tokyo College of Photography , which he left in 1951 after successfully completing his degree. In 1956 he had his first solo exhibition. Since the early 1950s he was a member of the avant-garde artist group Demokrato , which was led by the artist Ei-Q . During this time, Hosoe founded the Jazz Film Laboratory with Shūji Terayama , Shintarō Ishihara and others , in which expressive and impressive films were to be created in a multidisciplinary, artistic environment. An example from this period is his short film in black and white Navel and the Atomic Bomb

Hosoe's photographic career has been heavily influenced by surrealism , while showing a tendency to show intimate images of the naked human body. With the writer Yukio Mishima as a model, he created the photo book Barakei: Killed by Roses in 1961/1962 , which was published in Tokyo in 1963 and which was later published again with the changed subtitle Ordeal by Roses . His picture series Kamaitachi about a forest spirit from the fairy tale world of his youth was printed in book form in 1969.

Hosoe was since its founding in 1995, the director of the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts in Kiyosato in the municipality Hokuto of Yamanashi Prefecture and taught since 1975 at the Tokyo Institute of Polytechnics .

honors and awards

Publications

  • 1959: Otoko to onna ( お と こ と 女 , "Man and Woman").
  • 1963: with Yukio Mishima as a model: Barakei: Killed by Roses ( 薔薇 刑 , "Rosenstrafe"). Shueisha, Tokyo.
    • 1971: New edition with the English title Ba-ra-kei: Ordeal by Roses . Shueisha, Tokyo.
    • 1984: New edition, ISBN 4-08-532019-X
    • 1985: New edition in English with an afterword by Mark Holborn. Aperture, New York City, USA, ISBN 0-89381-169-6 .
  • 1969: Kamaitachi ( 鎌 鼬 ). Gendai Shichosha, Tokyo.
  • 1969: with photographs by Hosoe: Betty Jean Lifton: A Dog's Guide to Tokyo . WW Norton, New York City, USA.
  • 1970: with photographs by Hosoe: Betty Jean Lifton: Return to Hiroshima . Atheneum, New York City, USA.
  • 1971: Hōyō ( 抱擁 ; "hug"). Asahi Sonorama, Tokyo (new edition 1977).
  • 1971: Barakei .
  • 1972: Hosoe Eikōshū , portfolio.
  • 1986: Gaudi no Uchū ( ガ ウ デ ィ の 宇宙 ; "Gaudi's universe"). Shueisha, Tokyo, ISBN 4-08-532020-3 .
  • 1986: Author Mark Holborn: Eikoh Hosoe . Friends of Photography, Carmel, California, USA, ISBN 0-933286-46-5 .
  • 1992: Gaudi no Uchū 2 ( ガ ウ デ ィ の 宇宙 2 ; "Gaudi's Universe 2"). Shueisha, Tokyo, ISBN 4-08-532042-4 .
  • 1999: Eikō Hosoe , de. / En. / Fr. Könemann, Koln, ISBN 3-8290-2889-X .
  • 2006: with Kazuo Onoh : Butterfly Dream . Seigensha, Tokyo, ISBN 4-86152-092-4 .
  • 2006: Photographs and epilogue to: Les Fleurs du mal . Poems by Charles Baudelaire . Translated and introduced by John Wood. Steven Albahari, 21st Century, South Dennis, Massachusetts, USA.
  • 2007: Shi no Hai: Deadly Ashes: Pompeii, Auschwitz, Trinity Site, Hiroshima ( 死 の 灰 ~). Madosha, Tokyo, ISBN 978-4-89625-086-2 .

Exhibitions

Lexical entry

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 平 成 22 年度 文化 功 労 者 . MEXT , November 3, 2010, accessed June 6, 2013 (Japanese).
  2. ^ The photographer of the darkness in FAZ of March 18, 2013, page 32
personal data
SURNAME Hosoe, Eikō
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 細 江英公 (Japanese, stage name); Hosoe Eikoh (alternative transcription, stage name); Hosoe, Toshihiro (real name); 細 江 細 江 (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese photographer and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Yonezawa , Yamagata Prefecture , Japanese Empire