いつも小社の写真集に関心を寄せていただき、ありがとうございます。

3月6日(日)の読売新聞朝刊の文化面に、朝海陽子写真集「sight」の書評を載せて頂きました。

読売新聞様、ありがとうございます。

以下、記事の転載です。



　  変わった手法のポートレートだ。映画を選んでもらい、自宅のビデオで一緒に見ながら撮影する。ベルリンの女性は暗い部屋で「時の翼にのって」に見入っている。ニューヨークの男性2人は横になって「サンセット大通り」を楽しむ。東京の子供たちは「ホーム・アローン」をにらみ、妙に真剣な表情だ＝写真＝。
　  被写体は６か国９都市に及ぶ。　どんな人が何の映画をチョイスしたのか、ちょっと意外に思ったり、納得したり。考現学風の興味を持たせるところがある。
　  ただ、誰もが画面に集中している。いわゆる没入の状態が要所なのだろう。映画の時間が静かに流れ、彼や彼女の内面に堆積していく。物思いに沈む人の肖像に似て、見られているという意識は入り込まない。そんな充足した世界へ、見る者は引き込まれていく。
　  朝海陽子は１９７４年生まれ。最近、注目を集まるが、これが初作品集。(赤々舎、3300円)　(前)

昨年、AKAAKAでも「The Night Is Still Young」展を開催した
畑智章さんがアメリカ、ニューヨークが個展を
MIYAKO YOSHINAGA art prospectsで行います。


Tomoaki Hata "The Night is Still Young"

会場
MIYAKO YOSHINAGA art prospects
547 West 27th Street, 2nd Floor, NYC 10001 
info@miyakoyoshinaga.com
miyakoyoshinaga.com

日時
2011年3月10日(木)　〜　4月9日(土)　　11時　〜　18時
（閉廊：日曜、月曜）
The exhibition will run from March 10 to April 9, 2011.

イベント
オープニングパーティー
2011年3月10日(木)　18時〜20時
The opening and book-launching party will be held Thurdsday, March 10, 6-8PM

Diana Extravaganza, 2001, Osaka, archival pigment print

Tomoaki Hata "The Night is Still Young"

March 10- April 9, 2011

MIYAKO YOSHINAGA art prospects is pleased to present The Night Is Still Young, an exhibition by Tokyo- and Los Angeles-based photography artist Tomoaki Hata. The exhibition will run from March 10 to April 9, 2011.  The opening and book-launching party will be held Thurdsday, March 10, 6-8PM.

In recent news headlines, Japan, once Asia's economic superpower, has been portrayed as having lost its edge. Meanwhile, from the late 1990s to the early 2000s it became home to a vigorous burst of self-expression by one of the most secretive subcultures of Japanese society. Gender-bending men and women, who in their day-to-day lives conform to societal norms, began to gather weekly at small nightclubs in the gay district of Osaka to cut loose and be themselves.  The epicenter of this phenomenon was a bar called Explosion, where radically creative, smart, and witty drag queens combined art and activism in a talent show format.

In 1996, Hata, then a college student, began documenting these exuberant late-night parties and continued to do so until 2004.  Now considered a rare chronicle of the nation's first drag queen movement, these photographs were edited as a monograph entitled The Night is Still Young and published both in Japanese (Akaakasha) and English (powerHouse Books) with an essay by Eric C. Shiner, Acting Director of the Andy Warhol Museum in 2010.  Our exhibition follows on the heel of its Tokyo debut last October and presents a selection of 25 images that highlight the movement's heyday in the early 2000s.  

The glamour and self-assurance of Hata's drag queens, both on and off-stage, come to life in these color photographs, but along with the glitter, Hata also shows the seedy side of the life and explores moments of loneliness and despair. Like Boogie, a street photographer he admires, Hata gives himself up to the stream of happenings, observing the outrageous, out-of-control crowd with calm affection. Interspersed with the high-energy photographs of partiers and onlookers, Hata zeros in on an intimate portrayal of a male couple (originally shot for the City of Osaka's safe-sex campaign). The Night Is Still Young provides an ardent testimony of the time, through which we may glimpse not only the make-believe extravaganza but also the poignant humanity und


Ichi and Mi-kun, 2004, Osaka (for Safer Sex Guide)

Born in 1974, Tomoaki Hata works primarily in Los Angeles and Tokyo. After more than ten years of education in law, sociology, media studies, cultural studies, and art criticism in Japan, Hata began his career as a photographer, shooting Japan's groundbreaking HIV/AIDS benefit dance parties as well as for Japan's gay porn industry. Hata's photography is part of the Collection Lambert in Avignon, France and is included in other private collections worldwide.

For more information and photo request, please contact the gallery  
MIYAKO YOSHINAGA art prospects
547 West 27th Street, 2nd Floor, NYC 10001
Tue. - Sat. 11-6  212 268 7132 
info@miyakoyoshinaga.com
www.miyakoyoshinaga.com

澁谷征司「DANCE」の作品を、河出文庫刊「家族写真」(著：辻原登)の表紙に使って頂きました。

宜しければ、書店で「家族写真」を手に取ってください。

青森県は八戸ポータルミュージアムはっちで、
2011年2月26日(土)〜3月16日(水)の日程で行われております
「八戸レビュウ」の浅田政志の展示風景をお届けします。

浅田政志の展示は写真だけに留まらない会場作りをし、来場者に楽しんで頂いております。

今回の写真で、その雰囲気が少しでも感じ取って頂ければ幸いです。