Kikuji Kawada

Kikuji Kawada (川田 喜久治, Kawada Kikuji, born 1933) is a Japanese photographer.[1][2] He co-founded the Vivo photographic collective in 1959 with Akira Sato, Eikoh Hosoe, Ikko Narahara, Akira Tanno and Shomei Tomatsu.[3] He was one of the fifteen artists selected for the “New Japanese Photography” exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York in 1974.[4] He was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Photographic Society of Japan in 2011.[5]

Life and work

Kawada's book Chizu (The Map) has been praised by critics. Brett Rogers, director of The Photographers' Gallery, London, has said it is a "deeply moving and highly original investigation into a seminal moment in Japanese history."[6] In The Photobook: A History, Vol. 1, Martin Parr and Gerry Badger describe Chizu (The Map) as being amongst four books that "constitute photography's most significant memorials to the defining event in twentieth-century Japanese history" and that it is "the ultimate photobook-as-object, combining a typical Japanese attention to the art of refined packaging with hard-hitting photography, text and typography – a true photo-text piece. No photobook has been more successful in combining graphic design with complex photographic narrative."[7] Sean O'Hagan, writing in The Guardian, said it is "perhaps the most intricately designed and powerfully evocative Japanese photobook ever [ . . . ] By turns impressionistic and surreal, the book demands a degree of patient, silent contemplation that echoes the act of remembering."[6]

Publications
  • Chizu (地図) = The Map.
    • Tokyo: Bijutsu Shuppan-sha, 1965. Text by Kenzaburō Ōe.
    • Tōkyō-to Chōfu-shi: Getsuyōsha, 2005. ISBN 9784901477161. Text in Japanese and English.
    • Tucson, AZ: Nazraeli Press, 2005. ISBN 9781590051238. Text in Japanese and English. Edition of 500 copies.
    • Chizu (Reprint Edition). Tokyo: Akio Nagasawa, 2014. OCLC 951442394. With texts in English by Ōe, "Map," and Kawada, "On the re-reprint of "Chizu" (1965)". Edition of 600 copies.
  • ''ラスト・コスモロジー = The Last Cosmology.
    • ラスト・コスモロジー : 川田喜久治写真集 = The Last Cosmology : Photographs. Tōkyō: 491, 1995. OCLC 213343192
    • The Last Cosmology. London: Mack, 2015. ISBN 9781910164235.
  • Cosmos of the Dream King. Tokyo: Asahi Sonorama, 1995.
  • Kikuji Kawada. Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, 1998. ISBN 9784000083737. Text in Japanese.
  • Japan, 1951-1960. Nazraeli Press Six by Six, set 5 v. 3. Portland, OR: Nazraeli, 2014. ISBN 9781590054024. Edition of 100 copies.
  • Remote Past A Memoir 1951-1966. Tokyo: Case, 2016. With an afterword by Rei Matsuda, in Japanese and English. Edition of 1000 copies.

Awards

Solo exhibitions
  • Kikuji Kawada - The Last Cosmology, Michael Hoppen Gallery, London, 1 December 2014 – 23 January 2015.[8]
  • Kukuji Kawada: Last Cosmology, L. Parker Stephenson Photographs, New York, November 2014 - January 2015.[9]
  • Kikuji Kawada: Los Caprichos-Instagraphy-2017, P.G.I Gallery, Tokyo, 12 January - March 2, 2018.[10]
  • Kikuji Kawada: Then & Now, L. Parker Stephenson Photographs, New York, 19 February – 30 April 2016.[11]
  • Kikuji Kawada: 100 Illusions, Cannon Gallery S, Tokyo, 31 August – 11 October 2018.[12]

Exhibitions with others
  • 1957: Jūnin no me (10人の眼, Eyes of ten), Konishiroku Photo Gallery, Tokyo, May 1957.[13] Organised by Tatsuo Fukushima.
  • 1974: New Japanese Photography, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 27 March – 19 May 1974. Directed by John Szarkowski and Shoji Yamagishi.[4]
  • 2014: Chizu = The Map book, and The Map 1959–1965 installation of 90 photographs, were included in Conflict, Time, Photography, Tate Modern, London, 26 November 2014 – 15 March 2015;[14] Museum Folkwang, Essen, 10 April – 5 July 2015;[15] Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Dresden, Germany, 31 July – 25 October 2015.[16]

References
  1. O'Hagan, Sean (19 March 2015). "Dark night rising: the photographer who captured the mystery of the eclipse". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 April 2015.
  2. (in Japanese) Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, editor. 328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers (『日本写真家事典』, Nihon shashinka jiten). Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000. ISBN 4-473-01750-8
  3. Kōtarō Iizawa, "The evolution of postwar photography" (chapter of Tucker et al., The History of Japanese Photography), pp. 217, 210.
  4. "New Japanese Photography", Museum of Modern Art. Accessed 5 January 2015.
  5. "Photographic Society of Japan Awards", Photographic Society of Japan. Accessed 5 January 2015.
  6. O'Hagan, Sean (19 October 2014). "Top of the shots: photographers' favourite photobooks". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 January 2015.
  7. Martin Parr; Gerry Badger (2004). The Photobook: A History, Volume I. London: Phaidon. p. 274,286. ISBN 978-0-7148-4285-1.
  8. "Kikuji Kawada - The Last Cosmology", Michael Hoppen Gallery. Accessed 5 January 2015.
  9. Kikuji Kawada: Last Cosmology", L. Parker Stephenson Photographs, New York
  10. https://www.pgi.ac/en/exhibitions/status/past/], P.G.I. Gallery, Tokyo
  11. Kikuji Kawada- Then & Now, L. Parker Stephenson Photographs, New York
  12. "Kikuji Kawada - 100 Illusions"
  13. "Case 2: Eyes of Ten and VIVO", Art Institute of Chicago. Accessed 6 January 2015.
  14. "Conflict, Time, Photography". Tate Modern. Retrieved 19 October 2015.
  15. "Conflict, Time, Photography". Museum Folkwang. Retrieved 19 October 2015.
  16. "Conflict, Time, Photography". Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden. Archived from the original on 25 September 2015. Retrieved 19 October 2015.
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