Yoko Ikeda
Toshio Shibata
Nikko City, Tochigi Prefecture, 2013
Type-c print
40 x 50"
Toshio Shibata
Juocho, Hitachi City, Ibaraki Prefecture, 2008
Type-c print
40 x 50"
Miyako Ishiuchi
Untitled, 2007
Inkjet print on archival watercolor paper
39 x 26"
Yasuhiro Ishimoto
Katsura Villa-The Old Shoin viewed from the North - East, 1982
ektacolor print
50 x 40"
Yoko Ikeda
Kanichi, 2011
Type-C print
16 x 20"
Toshio Shibata
Okawa Village, Tosa County, Kochi Prefecture 2007
Type-c print
32 x 40"
Shomei Tomatsu
Time Stopped at 11:02 AM, 1961
silver gelatin print
25 x 23"
Daidō Moriyama
School Girl from the series Hunter, circa 1972
vintage silver gelatin print
11 x 14"
Masahisa Fukase
Sakotan Peninsula, 1977
gelatin silver print
12 x 16"
DoDo Jin Ming
Burnt Water Melting VI, 2003
archival pigment print on rice paper
44 x 57"
Kary Ka-che Kwok
Self-Portrait, c. 1996
vintage cibachrome print
23 x 16"
Jun Morinaga
Sea, on the Waves, 1975
silver gelatin print
24 x 30"
Kazuo Sumida
Notes from the the Underground, circa 1984-1990
silver gelatin print
11 x 14"
Hiroshi Sugimoto
Polar Bear, 1976
silver gelatin print
20 x 24"
Yasumasa Morimura
Comedian (Dance 2), 2005
unique Polaroid print
5 x 4"
DoDo Jin Ming
Early Spring II, 2000
archival pigment print
20 x 24"
Xinhua News Agency Archive, Beijing
circa 1970
silver gelatin print
5 x 8"
Xinhua News Agency Archive, Beijing
circa 1970
silver gelatin print
Tseng Kwong Chi
New York, New York, 1979
silver gelatin print
Tseng Kkong Chi
Lake Ninevah, Vermont, 1986
silver gelatin print
12 X 15"
Reagan Louie
Shanghai, China, 1987
c-print
24 x 20"
Magdalen Wong
Love Arrangement, 2013
Assemblage of greeting cards expressing love
approx. 25 x 32"
Magdalen Wong
Condolence Arrangement, 2013
Assemblage of greeting cards expressing condolences
approx. 25 x 32"
Magdalen Wong
Milk Collection, 2010
collage of milk splashes cut from cereal boxes
30 x 24"
Yoshihiko Ito
Yamagata Prefecture, 1987
silver gelatin print
16 x 20"
Min Byung Hun
Deep Fog Nº4, South Korea, 1998
gelatin silver print on Luminos paper
24 x 20"
Yuji Hamada
C/M/Y Waterfall , 2014
Polaroid emulsion on rag board
4 x 3"
Sendai Sashin Kai Collective
Untitled (Japan), 1920s
vintage silver gelatin print
8.75 x 11.5"
Laurence Miller Gallery, since 1984 a pioneer in presenting Asian photographers, is pleased to announce its participation in ASIA WEEK NEW YORK, a city-wide event founded in 2009 to celebrate and promote Asian art. This will be the first time that a photography gallery has participated in this annual event. ASIA WEEK brings together art specialists, museums, auction houses, and galleries, with an itinerary of exhibitions and special events focused on Chinese, Indian, Japanese, Korean, Himalayan, and Southeast Asian art.
Contemporary Photography Asian Perspectives features over 50 works from six decades by more than 20 Asian photographers. The underlying theme of the exhibition is memory. Miyako Ishiuchi’s recent large-scale color images of charred clothing from the aftermath of Hiroshima is juxtaposed with Shomei Tomatsu’s classic image of a watch frozen at 11:02 A.M., the exact moment of the atom bomb over Nagasaki. China’s Cultural Revolution and the strict rule of conformity under Chairman Mao, exemplified by earlier propaganda photos from the Xinhua News Agency, were an inspiration for Tseng Kwong Chi’s self-portraits in his "Mao suit." Reagan Louie’s street portraits of stylish Shanghai residents in European-influenced dress further emphasize the recent rebellion against conformity, and the embrace of capitalism.
The revisiting of tradition through a modern lens is evident in Fan Ho’s cinematic interpretations of mid-century Hong Kong and in Yasuhiro Ishimoto’s modernist pictures of the 17th Century Japanese villa Katsura.
Traditional reverence for the splendors of nature has been challenged by the highly abstract color landscapes of Toshio Shibata, which embrace man-made infrastructure in harmony with natural surroundings, as well as in Hiroshi Sugimoto’s view of a polar bear in the snow, actually taken within our city’s Museum of Natural History.
Other photographers in the show include: Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Masahisa Fukase, Fan Ho, Daido Moriyama, Yoko Ikeda, Yoshihiko Itō, Byung-Hun Min, Dodo Jin Ming, Masumasa Morimura, Yuji Hamada, Kazuo Sumida, and Magdalen Wong.
New York times staff writer Martha Schwendener enumerates her top picks from Asia Week New York and it's "10-day parade of exhibitions". She singles out Laurence Miller Gallery's presentation of Toshio Shibata's "quiet environmental-abstractions" as a highlight.
Toshio Shibata talks to Guardian writer Sian Cain about what went into the making of his iconic picture of the Okawa Village bridge.
The Japanese photographer Toshio Shibata is fascinated by water — in particular, the way it interacts with man-made structures. For the later half of his almost-40-year career in photography, he has explored this relationship in novel ways, hiding horizon lines and taking the perspective of the water itself with his camera, visually evoking its rushing sound.
