Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Photography and Fashion Since the 1990s at Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, 3 March–5 October, 2020, including photographers Anders Edström, Kyoji Takashi, Elein Fleiss, Yukinori Maeda, PUGMENT and Takashi Homma.

The 1990s saw the emergence of photographers who went beyond the conventional framework for communicating the appeal of fashion items to create images that appeal to people. Moreover, fashion magazines appeared that took an independent stance in transmitting information. Images created from new points of view influenced people’s thinking and lifestyles. Those images have been referred to repeatedly by subsequent generations.

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Produced on the occasion of Kazuna Taguchi’s exhibition I’ll never ask you at MUMOK, Wien, 13 June–16 November, 2025.

Taguchi’s meticulously composed monochrome photographs convey body fragments, gestures, and gazes that resonate with the surrealist tradition concerning the questioning of the photographic representation of the female body. This can be moments of the phantomic or Yūgen*-like, images that capture a figure in a state between appearance and disappearance.

*According to the Japanese poet Kamo no Chōmei (1155–1216), yūgen is a feeling that is not openly expressed in words, but symbolically indicated by images.

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Jochen Lempert brings his signature blend of scientific sensitivity and poetic vision to the remote Greek island of Kastellorizo. Known for his black-and-white photographs and background in biology, Lempert turns his lens to the subtle presences of animal, vegetal, and mineral life on this isolated Mediterranean outpost. Through a series of quietly observational images, Lempert documents the island’s micro-ecologies with a field biologist’s care and an artist’s attunement to form and chance. As always, he eschews dramatic framing and post-production, relying on natural light, analog processes, and an acute sense of timing.

A contemplative photographic series by Jochen Lempert, created during a residency at the Moulin des Ribes in Grasse, a former mill nestled in the Provençal landscape. Known for his background in biology and his distinctive analogue black-and-white photography, Lempert brings a scientific sensitivity and poetic restraint to his exploration of the site’s immediate environment. Shot entirely on location, the images focus on subtle interactions between natural forms and their surroundings. Rather than constructing grand ecological narratives, Lempert observes everyday life in and around the mill, drawing attention to the interdependencies and ephemeral presences that define a place.

Rayograph is term invented by Man Ray, in which he merged his name with the word “photograph” to describe his particular approach to the technique of making photograms. As old as photography itself, photograms are photographic prints made by placing objects and other elements on photosensitive paper and exposing it to light, without the use of a camera.

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Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Photo Avant-garde Nagoya at the Nagoya City Museum of Art in 1989.

Emerging in the 1930s from the influence of overseas modernism and alongside other groups such as the Naniwa Photo Club in Kansai (Kiyoshi Koishi, Hanawa Ginware, etc.), Ashiya Photo Club (Iwata Nakayama, etc.), and Tampei Photo Club (Nakaji Yasui, etc.), Nagoya Photo Avant-Garde included photographers such as Minoru Sakata, who is known for “modeling photography”, Yoshio Shimozato, a painter who is famous for Mesemu Zoku: Chogenjitsushugi Shashi-shu, Kansuke Yamamoto, who was also active in VOU, and Tsugio Tajima.

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