Fwd: H-Japan (E): History of Japanese Photography symposium and exhibit

[Aaron Gerow]

This does not necessarily concern moving images, but photography is of 
course very important to cinema. There are some good people involved in 
this, especially Kaneko Ryuichi, with whom I've worked before.
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From: Sarah Thal <thal at rice.edu>
Subject: History of Japanese Photography symposium and exhibit

This coming spring, on March 1, 2003, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,
will be hosting a symposium on Japanese photography, in conjunction with
the groundbreaking exhibit, The History of Japanese Photography, on
display at the museum from March 2 until April 27th. Below is appended the
schedule of the symposium. I suggest that anyone interested in attending
the symposium make hotel reservations as soon as possible. (The Houston
Rodeo and Livestock Show is also in town that weekend, so hotel rooms sell
out early.) For more information, call the museum at 713-639-7300.
Symposium: Japanese Photography: A Distinctive Aesthetic Saturday, March
1, 2003 1:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.


The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Brown Auditorium Theater

The Caroline Wiess Law Building

1001 Bissonnet

(713) 639-7300

lectures at mfah.org

www.mfah.org



The symposium is open to the public and free with general museum
admission.

Nearly a decade in the making, the landmark exhibition The History of
Japanese Photography, at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston presents the
first survey of Japanese photography by Japanese photographers in the West
from the medium's introduction in 1854 to the present. The Japan revealed
and preserved by Japanese photographers is often not only the Japan that
western audiences might expect to see-for example, such stereotypical
images as delicate geisha in kimonos, fierce samurai, fanatical
militarists of World War II, or the crowded cityscapes of contemporary
Japan. In addition, the photographs in this exhibition underscore the
complex changes that have occurred in Japanese society over the last 150
years, and the particular way Japanese photographers adapted Western
aesthetics.

This afternoon symposium brings together five distinguished scholars,
curators, and artists who have contributed to The History of Japanese
Photography for an examination of the themes that inform the research for
this project.

The History of Japanese Photography has been co-organized by the Japan
Foundation and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The exhibition is on view
at the MHAF through April 27, 2003.


Program

Welcome and Introductory Remarks

Anne Wilkes Tucker, The Gus and Lyndall Wortham Curator of Photography, 
MFAH

Presentations

The Origins and Development of Japanese Art Photography

Kaneko Ryuichi, Guest Curator, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography


The Age of Modernism: From Visualization to Socialization
Takeba Joe, Curator, Nagoya City Art Museum

Japanese Photography Since 1980: Internationalization, Individualism, and
the Institutionalization of Photography.

Dana Friis-Hansen, The Dr. and Mrs. Ernest C. Butler Executive Director,
Austin Museum of Art


Short Refreshment Break


On My Work
Hatakeyama Naoya, Renowned Japanese Photographer

Japanese Photography in the Context of Western Imagery

Anne Wilkes Tucker, The Gus and Lyndall Wortham Curator of Photography,
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Questions and Answers

The symposium concludes with a reception and viewing of the exhibition.


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Yokohama National University
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