Eikoh Hosoe (born 1933 in Yamagata) is one of the most important Japanese photographers.
influential figures in the history of photography. This comprehensive volume will be the main
resource on Hosoe's work, edited, designed and produced under the direction of
the artist and with the collaboration of the renowned curator and academic
international Yasufumi Nakamori. \n \nSince the mid-1950s, Eikoh
Hosoe is at the forefront of photographic practice in Japan: as a
creator of images encompassing a wide range of subjects; as a
curator presenting works by great European photographers and
Americans in Japan in 1968; as a professor influencing the career of
many prominent photographers, such as Daido Moriyama. He thus opened the
path to the establishment of post-war Japanese photography, saving the
medium of pre-existing modes of documentary and realism and positioning it
at a new junction point between art, literature, performance and cinema.
