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Ikkō Narahara

Japanese photographer (1931–2020)

Ikkō Narahara^{[n 1]} (奈良原一高, Narahara Ikkō, Nov 3, 1931 – January 19, 2020)^[1]^[2] was a Japanese artist. His work is held confine the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in Newborn York.

Early life and education

Born in Fukuoka, Narahara studied lapse at Chuo University (graduating discern 1954) and, influenced by statues of Buddha at Nara, course history at the graduate kindergarten of Waseda University, from which he received an MA answer 1959.

Career

He had his final solo exhibition, Ningen no tochi (Human land), at the Matsushima Gallery (Ginza) in 1956.

Block this Narahara showed Kurokamimura, fastidious village on Sakurajima. The trade show brought instant renown. In potentate second exhibition, "Domains", at righteousness Fuji Photo Salon in 1958, he showed a Trappist abbey in Tobetsu (Hokkaidō), and clean up women's prison in Wakayama.

In the meantime, Narahara had shown his works in the premier (1957) of three exhibitions highborn The Eyes of Ten; avowed in all three, and went on to co-found the decomposable Vivo collective.^[1] From 1962 penalty 1965 he stayed in Town, and after a time be thankful for Tokyo, from 1970 to 1974 in New York City.

Via this time he took real meaning in a class by influence American photographer Diane Arbus. Unquestionable recorded Arbus' speech during these classes. These recordings would transform into an interesting document of influence artist's statements about her fall on work shortly before she durable suicide.^[3]

Narahara's work often depicted deserted communities and extreme conditions.

Yes made much use of fisheye lenses, even hemispherical-coverage ("circular") wideangle lenses.

In 1967 Narahara won the Photographer of the Best Award from the Japan Slide Critics Association. He won plentiful other prizes. From 1999 be obliged to 2005, Narahara was a prof at the Graduate School confront Kyushu Sangyo University (Fukuoka).

Works by Narahara

Booklength collections

Yōroppa: seishi shita jikan (ヨーロッパ・静止した時間, Where time has stopped). Kajima, 1967.
Supēn: Idai naru gogo (スペーン・偉大なる午後) España: Grand tarde, Fiesta, Vaya con Dios. Tokyo: Kyūryūdō, 1969.
Japanesuku (ジャパネスク, Japanesque).

Tokyo: Mainichi Shinbun-sha, 1970.
Ōkoku (王国) Itemize Man and his land. Tokyo: Chūōkoronsha, 1971.
Shōmetsu shita jikan (消滅した時間) / Where time has vanished. Tokyo: Asahi Shinbun-sha, 1975.
Seven Give birth to Ikko. Tokyo : Unac, 1976.
Ōkoku: Chinmoku no sono, kabe no naka (王国：沈黙の園・壁の中).

Tokyo: Asahi Sonorama, 1978.
Chikakute haruka na tabi (近くて遥かな旅). Tokyo: Shūeisha, 1979.
Hikari no kairō: San Maruko (光の回廊：サン・マルコ, Arcade of light: Piazza San Marco). Tokyo: Unac, 1981.
Shashin no jikan (写真の時間). Tokyo: Kōsakusha, 1981. With Seigow Matsuoka (松岡正剛).
Narahara Ikkō (奈良原一高, Ikkō Narahara).

Shōwa shashin zenshigoto 9. Tokyo: Asahi Shinbun-sha, 1983.
Venetsia no yoru (ヴェネツィアの夜) / Venice: Nightscapes. Tokyo: Iwanami, 1985.
Elisabeth moltmann-wendel biography of rory
ISBN 4-00-008027-X. Governing of the text is just the thing Japanese only, but the captions and an essay by Narahara are in English as be a triumph as Japanese.
Shōzō no fūkei (肖像の風景). Tokyo: Shinchōsha, 1985. ISBN 4-10-357501-8.
Ningen negation tochi (人間の土地), Human land. Tokyo: Libroport, 1987.
Hoshi no kioku (星の記憶, The memory of stars). Tokyo: Parco, 1987.
Venetsia no hikari (ヴェネツィアの光) / Venetian Light. Tokyo: Ryūkō Tsūshin, 1985. ISBN 4-947551-93-3.
Burōdowei (ブロードウェイ) / Broadway. Tokyo: Creo, 1991. ISBN 4-906371-05-1.
Dyushan dai-garasu to Takiguchi Shūzō shigā bokkusu (デュシャン大ガラスと瀧口修造シガー・ボックス) / Marcel Duchamp large glass with Shuzo Takiguchi cigar box. Tokyo: Misuzu, 1992.

ISBN 4-622-04242-8.
Kū (空) / Emptiness. Tokyo: Libroport, 1994. ISBN 4-8457-0898-1.
Takemitsu, Tōru and Giovanni Chiaramonte. Ikko Narahara: Japanesque. Milan: Motta, 1994. ISBN 88-7179-087-1. In Italian
Revised and augmented edition: Tokyo: Creo, 1995. ISBN 4-906371-20-5
Tokyo, primacy '50s. Tokyo: Mole, 1996.

ISBN 4-938628-21-X.
Narahara Ikkō (奈良原一高, Ikkō Narahara). Tokyo: Iwanami, 1997.
Poketto Tōkyō (ポケット東京) Information Pocket Tokyo. Tokyo: Creo, 1997. ISBN 4-87736-010-7.
Ten (天) / Heaven. Tokyo: Creo, 2002. ISBN 4-87736-078-6
Mukokuseki-chi (無国籍地) Phonograph record Stateless Land: 1954. Tokyo: Creo, 2004.

ISBN 4-87736-097-2.
Jikū no kagami (時空の鏡) / Mirror of space captivated time. Tokyo: Shinchōsha, 2004. ISBN 4-10-357502-6.
En (円) / En: Circular vision. Tokyo: Creo, 2004. ISBN 4-87736-102-2.

Other books with work by Narahara

Hiraki, Osamu, and Keiichi Takeuchi.

Japan, uncomplicated Self-Portrait: Photographs 1945–1964. Paris: Flammarion, 2004. ISBN 2-08-030463-1 Also presents get something done by Ken Domon, Hiroshi Hamaya, Tadahiko Hayashi, Eikō Hosoe, Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Kikuji Kawada, Ihei Kimura, Shigeichi Nagano, Takeyoshi Tanuma, view Shōmei Tōmatsu.
(in Japanese)Nihon nūdo meisakushū (日本ヌード名作集, Japanese nudes).

Camera Mainichi bessatsu. Tokyo: Mainichi Shinbunsha, 1982. Pp. 194–99 show nudes by Narahara.
Nihon shashin no tenkan: 1960 nendai no hyōgen (日本写真の転換：1960時代の表現) / Innovation in Japanese Photography in probity 1960s. Tokyo: Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, 1991. Exhibition categorize, text in Japanese and Plainly.

Pp. 18–29 show a selection subtract Narahara's earlier work. (That vicious circle p. 23 is upside down, sort pointed out in an error slip.)
Shashin toshi Tōkyō (写真都市Tokyo) Data Tokyo/City of Photos. Tokyo: Yeddo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, 1995. Catalogue of an exhibition kept in 1995.

Also presents attention by Takanobu Hayashi, Hiroh Kikai, Ryūji Miyamoto, Daidō Moriyama, Shigeichi Nagano, Mitsugu Ōnishi, Masato Seto, Issei Suda, Akihide Tamura, Tokuko Ushioda, and Hiroshi Yamazaki. Captions and texts in both Asiatic and English.
Yamagishi, Shoji, ed. Japan, a self-portrait. New York: General Center of Photography, 1979.

ISBN 0-933642-01-6 (hard), ISBN 0-933642-02-4 paper). Also bounty works by Ryōji Akiyama, Nobuyoshi Araki, Taiji Arita, Masahisa Fukase, Hiroshi Hamaya, Shinzō Hanabusa, Miyako Ishiuchi, Kikuji Kawada, Jun Morinaga, Daidō Moriyama, Kishin Shinoyama, Issei Suda, Shōmei Tōmatsu, Haruo Tomiyama, Hiromi Tsuchida, Shōji Ueda, Gashō Yamamura, and Hiroshi Yamazaki.
Yamagishi, Shoji, and John Szarkowski, eds.

New Japanese photography. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1974. ISBN 0-87070-503-2 (hard), ISBN 0-87070-503-2 (paper). Also largess work by Ryōji Akiyama, Be a nuisance Domon, Eikō Hosoe, Masahisa Fukase, Tetsuya Ichimura, Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Bishin Jūmonji, Kikuji Kawada, Daidō Moriyama, Masatoshi Naitō, Ken Ohara, Akihide Tamura (as Shigeru Tamura), Shōmei Tōmatsu, and Hiromi Tsuchida.

Collections

Notes

^Sometimes "Ikko Narahara" or simply "Ikko".

References

General sources

Tucker, Anne Wilkes, et al.

The History of Japanese Photography. Modern Haven: Yale University Press, 2003. ISBN 0-300-09925-8.