<div dir="ltr">HI Lorenzo, <div><br></div><div>Claire is spot on. TOP is tops. One of my favorite museums in Japan. Their collection for photography is seriously amazing. The thing is, last time I looked it was very difficult to do extensive research there unless you are in Tokyo for an extended period of time. See the entry in Aaron and my Research Guide for details. This was years ago, so maybe they have relaxed their rules. </div><div><br></div><div>Best, </div><div><br></div><div>Markus</div><div><br></div><div>==========================================</div><div>Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography Library<br></div><div>Tokyo-to Shashin Bijutsukan<br>1-13-3 Mita<br>Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-0062 Japan<br>Phone: 03-3280-0099<br>Fax: 03-3280-0033<br>Webpage: <a href="http://www.syabi.com">www.syabi.com</a><br>The Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography has a small reading room interfacing with its collection, which is bifurcated into two sections that do not interact well. One half is the library, which has a relatively small collection of books and magazines. These include some publications on cinema but, not surprisingly, most are on still photography. There is an online catalog for these printed materials. The other half is the museum’s extensive collection of still photography. There is a visual database for this collection in the library, and while they do not seem to be collecting publicity stills and other cinema-related genres of still photography, they do have fine examples of zoetropes, phenakistoscopes, and other pre-cinema toys, as well as original prints from Muybridge and Marey. Unfortunately, the rules they have set up for looking at their archival materials make the collection virtually impossible to use for researchers not residing in Japan. The database is not online, so one must conduct searches of their holdings in the library; only a few items can be ordered at a time, and this must be done two weeks ahead of time. Do the math and you can see the problem. There is also a charge for viewing objects.<br><br>Excerpt From: Abé Mark Nornes and Aaron Gerow. “Research Guide to Japanese Film Studies.” Apple Books. <br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">--- </span></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small"><font face="courier new, monospace" color="#274e13"><b><img src="https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1YYQZdrswh1HD_xCKXSzMs3lLalKxLVgs&revid=0By9QGX7UmiKRSEdLZ0xoVDNEM2xLclB3R0pDbk93ek8yeEtVPQ" width="55" height="96"><br></b></font></div><div style="font-size:small"><font face="courier new, monospace" color="#274e13"><b>Markus Nornes</b></font></div><div style="font-size:small"><span style="font-family:"courier new",monospace"><font color="#38761d"><b>Professor of Asian Cinema</b></font></span></div><div style="font-size:small"><b style="color:rgb(56,118,29);font-family:"courier new",monospace">Interim Chair, Dept. of Asian Languages and Culture</b><span style="font-family:"courier new",monospace"><font color="#38761d"><b><br></b></font></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><font size="1" color="#38761d"><font face="courier new, monospace">Department of Film, Television and Media</font><span style="font-family:"courier new",monospace">, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, Penny Stamps </span><span style="font-family:"courier new",monospace">School of Art & Design</span></font></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> </blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="1"><b><u><span style="background-color:rgb(182,215,168)">Homepage: <a href="http://www-personal.umich.edu/~nornes/" target="_blank"><font color="#ffffff">http://www-personal.umich.edu/~nornes/</font></a></span><font color="#6aa84f"><br></font></u></b></font><font face="courier new, monospace" size="1" color="#93c47d"><b>Department of Film, Television and Media<br></b></font><font face="courier new, monospace" size="1" color="#93c47d"><b>6348 North Quad<br></b></font><font face="courier new, monospace" size="1" color="#93c47d"><b>105 S. State Street<br></b></font><font face="courier new, monospace" size="1" color="#93c47d"><b>Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1285</b></font></blockquote></blockquote><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Nov 13, 2021 at 12:59 PM Claire-Akiko Brisset via KineJapan <<a href="mailto:kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu">kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<b>Envoyé :</b> samedi 13 novembre 2021 18:52:58<br>
<b>À :</b> Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum<br>
<b>Cc :</b> Lorenzo Javier Torres Hortelano<br>
<b>Objet :</b> [KineJapan] Best Contemporary Japan Photography Centre</font>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:ibarraReal,serif">I’m trying to figure out which would be the best centres in Japan on contemporary Japanese photography, a museum, archive, or research centre about the
different flows in current photography, maybe with funds or work of relevant photographers, etc.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:ibarraReal,serif">The goal is to get an idea of the best of contemporary Japanese photography in order to organize an exhibition that provides a wide vision, with an edited
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:ibarraReal,serif">Thanks in advance and Best regards,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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