The Hosoe Project - RIT Scholar Works
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The Hosoe Project - RIT Scholar Works
Rochester Institute of Technology RIT Scholar Works Theses Thesis/Dissertation Collections 5-10-1982 The Hosoe Project Susan Poulakis Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarworks.rit.edu/theses Recommended Citation Poulakis, Susan, "The Hosoe Project" (1982). Thesis. Rochester Institute of Technology. Accessed from This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Thesis/Dissertation Collections at RIT Scholar Works. It has been accepted for inclusion in Theses by an authorized administrator of RIT Scholar Works. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY A Thesis The College in to submitted of Fine Candidacy for the and Faculty Applied Arts the Degree MASTER OF FINE ARTS THE HOSOE PROJECT by Susan Poulakis May 10, 1982 of of Thesis Committee Professor R. Professor James Professor Joseph Additional Heintz Roger VerHague Watson Faculty Klinkon Bernadette Remington Merkel Assistance Table 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 5 6 7 Contents of Thesis List Appendixes of 3 4 Design 7 Process Grid Typeface . 1 Introduction The . Committee 9 Selection 11 Paper . 8. The 9 Conclusion 15 Postscript 17 Appendixes 18 . 10 11 . Controversial 12 Cover Photograph 13 List of Appendixes I The Data Sheet 19 II Design Process 22 III Typeface Selection 23 IV The Grid 24 V Photograph Sizes 25 VI Imposition Layout 26 VII The Exhibition 27 VIII Hosoe's Visit 28 29 IX The X The Second Cover 38 XI The Poster 39 Catalog Introduction In the fall Museum of and organizing of a be an as a of ambitious would and be to an the and of exhibition Ms. effective a She if catalogue to images. We an lecture to the the work depended largely Such in a people to Visual holding photographic did work the George at and it Studies concurrent books exhibitions and Hosoe's see work. on retrospective this country, in These would success interest Hosoe's This experience Photography expressed of chosen valuable his on involve exhibition event. for opportunity would of that I at the in modest some would would thesis her included which kept probably be a such in her her give project's thesis Eikoh Hosoe. before been held never announce enthusiastic the would Photography a shows, smaller take place, and received. if it asked thesis retrospective which photographs. felt publication a Her MFA an International Museum of well McCabe own sponsor here also respectively very had him Eastman House were to excellent bring Workshop of project work concerning her Japanese photographer, willingness Hosoe's by Practices. Naturally curator. approached was curating world-famous RIT's I Constance McCabe, student, field 98 1 1 of experience experience serve as interested and accompany prospect mind, affair of of in the designing at that that with the point be even and of a such the event. poster I and was beautiful catalogue no more producing Naturally show. working course, since in editing documentation a be would would budget existed it and would Photography be would method it became to way better In a with matte the best With the could we could At this set about maxumum a I point approval. decisions could be seemed worthwhile mean third a extra expense press our the was After some inquiry the best be Hosoe's of the cover duotones the intensify run better made would to that so be image therefore and justified was that for characteristic are further to coat to and set School extra it since clear to for have the final dealing with to a and Photographic Arts could we poster would present my say consult the photographer the If catalog. the catalogue. sheet thus administration problems on Sciences the people as the project. if and detailed data benefit own in to the book publication and produce fairly of how the information and all budgetary who cost producing a work outlined, about of budget, in the project, I the requirements $2000 for both of that to printing estimate budget both would already that The within work involved blacks structure general I duotones any results. included that the be financed. offered were would but I felt settled, it to of of images, exchange photographs. double-black deep the decision preliminary the immediately to in pages School production agreed justice fewer have varnish This give far the addition darkness. cost, to that clear We the with the course printed reproducing produce work. Of do Another of negotiation expensive. to was quality. best some obtain. fairly concern primary image to is publication it require well, for whose In this way we Since we arose. other side of the world, there communicating was with invaluable in making already our our some client, tasks as complexity so clear that to us the as involved data sheet possible. in was DESIGN PROCESS After consultion with page, self -cover catalogue format. Since it less paper I have chosen the images in cramped are a Hosoe's were that so writings, a and authors, exhibitions. of pages Mr. sent to worked from Also it would As there logical to have which had of Hosoe's in of appear were than each nature of which series to occupy two other. include each of six series face to because photographs The introductory series biography, more all the of each would explanation for because books. text, and fairly soon, series be were us include wanted all they by various publications and twenty-four typewritten manuscript. Hosoe keep that several series section There and each summary a would I felt that but cost save developed from could pages remaining produced seemed pair a to dramatic was photographic it be represented, it plates, (See imposition diagram). cost. limitation page as published pages the book He has work. and economical most and two onto twenty-four a book. smaller twenty-four fit format smaller large of be that decided the best be would printing a so The basic layout its and I printers, all could require could the the this a preliminary and but in made photographs seemed logical what to order some in draft one he section, the the wanted changes separate of in photographs he them arranged. I format. I decided uninterrupted biography section to by text. from the other text, would not be placed This left us with and photographs text one into extra the avoid images the place use of in the pairs, to use Futura that as text, with page of possible. of each of an so it each since Since to sense was be only series also to as in was place occupying used both each as I its own upper unobtrusive left and me to preferred to by the pair separately commentaries column. corner as place possible. identify individual an from to explained these extra and permitted determined was to the series, This image, two logical was opposite. or the When transition abrupt to begin side texts commentary numbers would with the photograph a pairs. one were free from text interference made light type they photographs images. it there me, right-hand as arranged idea The please captions arrangement arrangement not that so section cover. Japan, from. the of keep the images The from did on list back twelve photographs, choose image the at the back on arrived to photographs it place in I decided photographs. position, so find as easy to The I Grid reviewed design process layout. Most image that without they particular that he disliked tight I thing the images book So of I varied small such I photographs. size find to worked also a by far the most common but felt I called that for vertical more and a arrangement upper in At first I reasons. unusual grid and it To as the a on type the on the each of white a this space the same were also along which work where together was areas, a image is an pages area page in place Hosoe's of were one is appropriate, cases large the on center a boredom. them center dynamism Also gave position margins to in many and to position photograph since For of possibility position. approach. horizontal no whether eccentricity superior pairs. tried grid left approach, Thus their left and arranged strict was them. between the a horizontal flush be one felt I me to advantages that proportion good decide the out at started the disadvantages. would a them all of told photographer that there to give One photographs in much so their by to be laid appeared all. decided my their design the kind in outweighed had to or page the and images of at beginning impressed not Some with. where this considered was reflect structure books arrangement not dealing were I general them did of any height. in and before catalogues photographic many to the size of found this didn't determine structure, First, every but I photograph was each photograph work different in well by a for two proportion and 10 so their counted vertical on photographs into to images and conform faced account and each their relative horizontal edges to same grid lines. the page it the other on relationship sizes. to each not could was possibly Also since necessary other, based to on be the take their 11 The One Type the of space of to have be a After in its cramped small for enough looking light weights and in me at to and Futura to do this. and Futura light its rounded forms fluidity that is a has and tall enough that ascenders reminiscent of twenty-four pages were I to chose had to line. use Futura, difference between darks lights in the and typeweight variations provided complements it chose per characters give each on texts extrabold also the that the longest drastic dramatic Futura delicacy a was used commentary typeface I typefaces wanted Also, there to fit many the mimic meant whatever many I the wanted all, Therefore x-height the typeface to be this In space. carefully order I column, extrabold. photographs, enable Since own typewritten text. have determining consideration. series would in problems a the kind Japanese calligraphy. a strength images, of to and feminine 12 The Paper In choosing finish. matte on gravure country to closest to a a some the with decided brittle, a like whiteness permits it. and to find for my a common It it does higher work on not its of Also a printed matte a this in come would matte paper tried hard since manufactured white its and feeling. the best paper revised very high basis the with catalog by matte weight However it has high-quality afford quality the also a contrast. substantial not on available, Frostbrite, was hoped I on method duotone surface cost. is I the blacks. because more usually printing that effect whitest use are with stock the blackest blacks darken to Inc., books double-black reasonable catalogue a the a the to Papers, its not was dull-coated a Hosoe's increases the page disadvantages. somewhat would and is coat for affords Japan, effect the Consolidated gives in varnish I paper surface is paper of whiteness it gravure this matte find The it looked because was since press, as I paper This Since surface. with the it is ink holdout. I paper, the if same our matte budget 13 The The choice in were the cover of possession those had We Cover Controversial to be photograph of limited a off paired was somewhat since we most of and photograph another with images, of number limited, to represent series. both abstract appropriate to seem me several one did, figurative qualities, and to be any and Hosoe's of example faculty real in were but if see favor they the of to because series because and Its work. problem, to members all "Embrace" from the photograph a on agreed found image did an not it to inappropriate. No safe it seemed content erotic be it its of over I showed the choice of another. When the appeared catalogue objection to it. The Photography faculty much later. objectionable was RIT I then had to quickly removed cost the and the books school references Naturally I a to RIT that was it the there a from success. cover was The no the immediate School problems photograph was of arose deemed administration. the replace recovered, the press consensus was credit surprised and cover. The restapled sum considerable on the general Evidently by the from page upset of and money. were original retrimmed. RIT's logo ordered by this, cover as was This and the everyone who removed. was 14 involved was to Yoshimura to opposite Yukio is a elegant those and who the on and the faculty by any publicity, Mr. Hosoe and he 1. made no Embrace, 1970). as was so protest . of nude the and . .More creates is is an pathetic, apt photographs nature of beauty. who "To states, Embrace Embrace of completely to make stagger. represents the camera." insensitive to the difference between McCabe could frustrating that was placed not gracious Hosoe, Embrace creature a mechanism most about . Nobuya Japanese author, athletic form. ordinary have been we as Preface, spirit a famous and dignity the The usual Eikoh about the were for Ms. hard nobility of art. is seeing true would The occurred seriously his In the book to with being .. censors and pornography myself to yearnings Apparently the for filled it never "in working preface human used expresses everlasting his powerful. are as pornography." else the had objectionable. Hosoe of series of was of in anything awareness It that Mishima, this than speaks It catalogue. that the image us me the with the our in an protest. in aspect of sponsors the and situation supporters uncomfortable We were his response position fortunate that to the situation, issue. (Tokyo: Shashin Hyoronsha Publishing, 15 Conclusion My thesis project Certainly I learned printed I soon of art to the must of artist's in artist's intentions Another enhance benefit the of aspects information are the in experience respects. many designing about the and role a in any is that those producing a to this area The challenge. as true designer must respect The and consistent the with design decisions that word. opportunity production specific possible. effecting artist's to be learned as design a in the was problems unaltered piece creating and many designer's be course original care most deal great make exercise will valuable that there that photographs a a catalog. realised design was process. There for this from being involved in of an is much aspiring some invaluable professional designer. final However a being the in When they to able added meet and beginning arrived from months polite day and with of them of It for was at they Niagara a project seeing my time March long-distance charming in spend Japan lectures on his work. many reward with 1982 the Mr. the Falls were. which and in his wife. mounted, for Mr. Hosoe's and to communication. both Hosoe was exhibition was opening pleasure complete Ms. they speak I person after impressed by how was McCabe were in and both I spent most the anxious 16 to see, and we had a fun and memorable excursion, 17 Postscript Just before Mr. Spiritus her interest show California continue in changes a I fall. the project, satisfy my currently designing RIT same and thousand and to revise those an us of her for catalogues for happy was the Susan informed She travel to opportunity to would which exhibition, by aspects the of work expectations. involved poster contacted were California. two puchasing the we arrival, Long Beach, the of in with that didn't am in Gallery upcoming I Hosoe's in the catalog announcement revisions, for the show. and also Some of in the include: 1. New 2. Some 3. Reshooting 4. Use of Hosoe's 5. Use of a choice text photographs of for the catalog cover and poster. additions those duotones of gloss signature varnish which were too dark in the horizontal form instead of matte, which gives a richer, darker black 6. Possible use the design of a color, package. perhaps silver, to enhance the look of Appendixes 18 Data Sheet October Title: 8, 198 1 Hosoe Project Description: 1. A of catalog photographic 2. A To design the about Eikoh a Hosoe presented at that form will RIT in March of a 1982. show. integrated publicity To design Objectives: viewer to be exhibit an of works announcing the poster Goal: the catalog and exhibition and program poster present about that Hosoe's the inform the will work show. clearly and attractively. Strategies The and Processes: following practicality A and 1. Cover: 2. Paper Weight: have decisions been made A 100-pound 3. Paper Type: A dull-finish 4. Catalog 5. Number 6. Number of duotones: 7. Colors: 8 pages: black basis of catalog. has stock been opacity of the economy: self-cover size: on on 1/2" x clay-coated paper. 10" 24 15 catalog, black 1 poster. selected for maximum 19 Budget: We are which presently be will working provided within by the budgetary ceiling a School of Photographic of $2000, Arts and Sciences. In-kind Assistance: 1. Duotone work: 2. Duotone and 3. Type 4. Paper: 5. Stripping: 6. Printing: David Cohn materials :GARC stripping :Dona ted by Donated Setronics at Stanley 10% above cost by Ailing and Cory. Rosen Not definite Target Audience: 1. College and the and graduate visual 2. Faculty 3. General public, least students, well trained in photography arts. some sufficiently of whom motivated will to be visually oriented, make the trip out to RIT. or at 20 Hosoe Project: Administrative: Academic: Russell Elliot Kraus, Rubenstein, Director SPAS Chairman Thesis Committee, Gallery Director Project Coordinator/Curator: Constance McCabe Publications Designer: Susan Poulakis Publication All of proof the approval required of: above Eikoh Hosoe David Brown, Light Gallery, N.Y. TIMELINE: October 25 Set of reproduction November Copies of quality prints arrive from Japan 31 mechanicals sent out for proof-reading 21 December 12 Publication Graphics January complete 12 All exhibition prints March 17 Exhibition opens ready for display . Eikoh Ho T *! oh Hosoe: lal Studies Photographs Eikoh Hoeoe of March 12 -May 5, The Hal lag Photographic Bochester ait. lbl tion ; of llkob Hoaoe Photographs 1982 of Institute Technology : 1960-1861 Slide Presentation. Eikoh Hoaoe discusses his Books to be Presented by Roc 1981 iort-abop Books (data - The Photographic tbitlon: ture: 1960 Photographs determined) ebb Auditorium . Monday, March IS, B :00pm Film Screening: n Maval z and Iliob Hosoe's Atomic Bomb ebb Auditorium Thursday, I tto klM .. 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Box 9887 Rochester, New York 14623 Dark Sun Press Library Congress of Catalog Card Number: 81-86077 ISBN 0-937968-01-3 Dark Sun Press is students of No written or a non-profit organization composed of MFA photography the program at photographic material written consent of Eikoh Hosoe is may be faculty and RIT. reproduced without the Eikoh Hosoe. represented in the United States and Canada by Light New York. Gallery, Susan Poulakis Catalogue designed by Printed by Ayer Streb, Rochester, New York Reproductions and printed with a with spot varnish on Duotones Typeset 200-line screen, black-on-black Frostbrite dull-coated duotone stock. by David Cohn by Setronics, Rochester, New York Cover Photograph: Embrace, #48, 1 970 Nobuya Yoshimura is known in Japan for his critic of Yukio Mishima for internationally reknowned Japanese writer noted The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea and was an such works as Confessions of a Mask. Eikoh Hosoe: Photographs 1960-1980 is by work as a publisher and photography Rochester Institute Sciences in of cooperation with International Museum of a presentation made possible Technology's School Visual Studies Photography at of Photographic Arts Workshop and the George Eastman House. and Eikoh Hosoe: Ftoograriis 1960-1980 Introduction and Acknowledgments 1960-1980" "Eikoh Hosoe: Photographs accompany three master k exhibitions in the contemporary presented Studies concurrently Workshop and at has been representing the published photographic community. These exhibitions, Technology, Visual Museum of Photography at Rochester Institute the International to visual evolution of a of George Eastman House, were conceived and produced as a thesis project for my master of fine arts degree at Rochester Institute of Technology. Mr. Hosoe graciously consented to participate in this project, entrusting to me the details of exhibition and catalogue preparation. He has my warmest gratitude for his generous and enthusiastic time, thought and energy. Thanks are especially due to Dr. Russell Kraus, director of RIT's School of Photographic Arts and Sciences, for his support and understanding. In addition, I am deeply contributions of grateful to Professor as well as Elliott Rubenstein for his Catherine Lord. Sincere individuals valuable to my advisors, Professor Charles A. appreciation must without whose assistance and have been be time Arnold, Jr. expressed and counsel and to the following patience this project would not realized: David Brown, Helen Brunner, Hope Carson, David Cohn, Robert Cooper, Dana Davis, Edie Freedman, Ronald J. Gregory, Rick Hock, Nora Kennedy, Jeff Love, James E. Lyle, Nathan Lyons, Jan Markels, John Massey, Mary K. McCabe, Neal McCabe, Steven and Deborah Mosch, Toshihiro Nakajima, Susan Poulakis, Barbara Power, Leigh Privitere, James and Linda Reilly, Stanley Rosen, Caroline RudeZaft, Donald Russell, Wendy Snyder-Nakajima and Dr. Richard Zakia. Constance McCabe, Editor and Curator Preface Nobuya Yoshimura Some during people thunder then and scene made of are seen away though they by the been And it may be On a certain resulted includes both the This type "Satori" by the Zen priest of All is Dali seen as or the invisible, the European a experience has philosopher. the Orient. 1960, Eikoh Hosoe had such an inspiration which and Woman, a work made in a spirit in to that opposite of pornography. In other monumental photographic masterpiece shows a women with After Man Man of were a in the masterpiece, Man completely Hosoe by visible and by of called day scene. hallucinatory of Cognizance" the "Dawn called desert an arid space, exactly like a picture word all loud clap Things both very near and very far detail with a serene perspective as calmly observing metaphysical. a them as though it world around them in minute panoramic D'Arbo. Here the physical and the transparent glass. were extraordinary lifetime have suddenly heard their seen every trace and of Woman, it pornography was but fastidiously a small words, this of nude men and group removed. step to Embrace. Actually, photographing for Embrace immediately after completing Woman, but Embrace wasn't published until 10 years later, in started and 1971. According to Hosoe, "Around the time I started photographing Embrace, Bill Brandt's Perspective of Nudes was imported to Japan. I was greatly book photographing, so was pure he to find that shocked quite resembled accident, I stopped perhaps working it the photographs in the Brandt one of those in Embrace was I had been which on it for time." a something Hosoe Although this couldn't bear since places such great emphasis on originality. During this time, Hosoe published a photographic collection called Killed by Roses in 1 963. The title was later changed to Ordeal by Roses. Kamaitachi All of was published these works, high-voltage in 1 969. including Embrace, are near products of passion and genius. surely brought a fresh new shockwavethat has stagnant standard of artistic appreciation and Hosoe is one of the few produces masterpieces. photographers without doubt, shine ever works rippled open have in the bigoted feelings in Japan And in the future the flash madness" will, mad, extremely Hosoe's brighter. who of of value. continuously his "creative MOn My and Woman Eikoh Hosoe 1960 first Man and Woman was an attempt to catch the human Woman" its secret rites and to bring sun. held in darkness. In my next "Man it into the light of the sky and earth and Ordeal by Roses from drama, One day, without I intend bodily to warning, kind to world I which the was abducted under gently through its there It was, in a sense, the reverse of the foul, filthy to was escorted was a was a strange the map of city to land, any a I which city was taken of awesome Eros frolicked wantonly in broad daylight . is the .This repellent city in its yet flowed, inexhaustibly, and Unlike surface. a pellucid stream of feeling. unsullied . weird, cruel and overdecorative there underground channels winding beneath the sewers I which naked, comic, wretched, it lyricism murmuring live in, where our for public morality world we create on was and was a clear undercurrent of hygiene Yes, this of civilization. unseen conduits. of social appearances and our concern world the not so his lens spell of worship ours, the to opposed abnormal, warped, sarcastic, grotesque, savage, promiscuous... yet is work sorcery; it is the use of mechanical instrument for purposes utterly civilized precision transported me seen some of the camera, but Hosoe's magical work produced with The Yukio Mishima 1 963 appeared and Even before this, I had a strange world. much simple magic as a by preface Eikoh Hosoe record of our a ... city Death and the squares... on stay [in that city], found to be not where silences, Hosoe's by told as camera. Before that camera, I as soon realized, my own spirit and psychology became totally redundant. It was an exhilarating experience, a state of affairs I had long dreamed of. Hosoe merely explored via the medium of his camera the sounds' much as the the novelist uses words and in various combinations the which objects composer to be be placed, and the light and shadow which made For him, in short, the objects correspond to The objects are stripped of their various meanings, photographed could those combinations possible. words and sounds. flung which are into a meaningless arrangement where meaningless reflection of each other to the light he which and shadow. It is only eventually by such means composes can acquire an abstract their restores a certain order that the elements similar quality to that with of words and sounds. A first requirement for this process, have photographed should stripped spirit . . the ..If in the to flesh camera, I Yet I not. on From his reversion genres, he must first It until it my eye were was in the same for same it completely. If the on both treated simply as he to peered overtake a position where Hosoe, too, as be successfully as he did the into the viewfinder, he the objects he saw there. at a state of affairs betrayed, primary images already achieved no supply exactly the meant to end, his operations were aimed of for his having . one who was placed own eyes might be . turned my back a metamorphosis to the kind world would be can there be to looking? Quite obviously, beginning . trained or retina of own eyes. waiting for where the the only his photographer. was and what sense could was not rely was into the lens stared my back of externals, other instead abstraction Before Hosoe's I they of which create works that will stand abstract components such as words and sounds ready-made, whether in as artists way course, is that the objects of meaning is to photographer same other means some where a successful seen in his subconscious Kamaitachi Eikoh Hosoe 1969 Kamaitachi, is "Weasel's or a record of the memory I was the was twelve literally from the Japanese, during World War II when I translated experienced in 1944 years old Most worst. the of communally. did, to live from our mother and Those had to be then three father who firebombing had to the years in the country, relatives be could not old, I as sisters, but my or The piercing beauty of Eikoh Hosoe's series of photographs entitled Embrace has deeply moved me since I first saw it published in a magazine. The viscosity odors and temperatures about One separated I liked the landscapes and feeling the due to the between the country boys and the were very good to me, but when I villages, It was from kids we children hard for big around playing would go out was not My to the towns Other me. only "city relatives or kids/' children were They thought city children were laughing plump, to the Kamaitachi were on Kamaitachi, a the on small, invisible very sharp knife, but and springtime. legs arms or ilachi means sharp teeth like just body weasel. he A where his flesh sliced as if cut by a blood. In Japanese, kama means sickle So Kamaitachi is an invisible weasel with very But no one has appears, only that feeling, though, strange my him. No ever seen that he I attacks people should never born. If I hated it, I mother was feeling would then," days in the to all a the his record photographer. complex directly memory. wanted To do a good so friend feelings of my love one knows in the fields. hate my own and One hate from those I In In writing? express In painting? needed a catalyst. God is dead, humans portrays time. Tatsumi Hijikata. At the same was a I found it in Tatsumi time, Kamaitachi is, my background in Japan. an and of close the skillfully the human being Yet I hestitate to is would as a creature who call it a song This an undercurrent of gloominess. art and can to be apparent best be emancipated. expressed as The in his humorous same and cruel human beings face the and naked world feeling of pathos which Embrace creates is being tightly driven into a corner, capable of only by means of hard and willful tension. The rapture brilliant suddenly, and between them. The in vanish seem as lyrical white whiteness of a moment, but if they flesh this are fighting each other. Then like lingering snow appears flesh is not a fluid whiteness a whiteness of utmost elegance to awe-inspiring fading. dignity of Embrace is apt to make those nude photographs stagger. nature and represents an intimate friend journey one which It who are used expresses the everlasting yearnings to seeing the true nobility of the of mechanism of by one. of the of the Eikoh Hosoe, I have followed him on the creation of Embrace. I have always respected led to the as a master of Embrace, was inner document as in the photographs models him singing? dancer. He images camera. a photographer it in photography because I Moving place. unique down from the hills moves which refuses undercurrent expressing their The memory from my But Hosoe has done, it time and these than own other the reasons for the of that it own mother. Photography expresses the subjects themselves Outwardly, this is a documentary of the dancer, to my ideas. in their myself and of to as by changed its farmyard. throughout Hosoe's isolation of hate the land express one's memory. of mine and a great sympathetic own personal record of very fox a snatches elegant and powerful. Kamaitachi As cannot Photography? I Hijikata, from country. Photography wants is within a certain skillfully as a shrewd corresponding ordinary Kamaitachi, boyhood, with light camera be shameless and wihout pride. walking in the rice is attacked by Kamaitachi man who the flesh brilliancy original and cannot it into sections, to mankind, for it also has and never I had the by dividing yet, gloominess runs a Kamaitachi is awful. something very into it. The no characteristic of creates an awareness of is pathetic, as rather romantic. or some other part of with no a sickle. where or when was The flesh has animal which attacks good people field lanes in the late finds his hand, other realm of make an abstract work of flesh is irreplaceable snatches a chicken Embrace dark. Yuki-onna, or "Snow among them. I pictured the snow the contrary, organs but would catch us when we went outside after terrible but internal wandering into the as like him to expressions were The dark, snowy country seemed to be full of ghosts. In fact, there were ghosts. We children were always frightened that something terrible and the flesh, his of praise woman not as by brilliancy, this awful. Woman," intimately formed other meanings releases more natural Farmers' different from country kids. from the city were thin from hunger. Their were Hosoe of not mode of expression. corner watched me with cold eyes. were called think It is then intertwine possessed poor communication neighborhood children. the to join them. It me like Tokyo. We cities the country, but I hated environment of was those earthy associated with sex of soft and was alone. and the country itself. This is which form. should not abstractionism. had jobs in Tokyo. I Yukio Mishima 1 970 by has been meticulously removed from these photographs. To me this is a series filled with hard and athletic beauty. More than anything else, it is to the evacuated no relatives were sent who mother was my the American Some had brothers them. brother, younger had who country to live only village where when school children Those remote countryside. were sent Embrace From the Preface from Tokyo to the country was evacuated born. I Sickles," self-discipline, conquering Despite the each obstacle obstacles encountered on plateau reached is a remarkable one, the road even he meets to for Hosoe. Gaudi' Ansel Adams Gallery Workshop, Eikoh Hosoe 1974 In 1974 Ansel Adams invited Eikoh Hosoe to Yosemite was workshops. directed Clergue, while Landscape," "Nude in the and it by Robert Heinecken, Judy Dater, and Jack Welpott. One day, photographing in the forest, all participants, including the instructors, removed their clothing. experience: brought "In upon falling forced to take nature nude. Hosoe The off to nature. into my I was a waterfall clothes. following account of environment, being nude gives such a magnificent natural evleryone closer dressed. But was was Eikoh Hosoe 1977 Eikoh Hosoe first his Norman Locks. Also participating in the workshop photographers Imogen Cunningham, Wynn Bullock, Lucien were his The theme co-feach one of one who remained pool, along Then I too became camera was soaked and with my camera, I by Photography" "International Conference Hosoe to Gaudi. Hosoe "Thirteen to shock Don of Antonio moved I in Barcelona I first Barcelona, Gaudi visited could not expose even one negative be destroyed if I would brought again recalls: years ago, when me. Quixote, should attempt a strange-looking monster without knowledge This giant would never fade away. was a great for fear to that I, like approach such and spiritual preparation. one with the film inside absorbed "The second spirit." nature's neo-baroque architecture of while the the only the encountered visiting Barcelona in 1 964. Hosoe was profoundly the experience, but it was not until 1 977 that the second Gaudi chance "International Conference to see Gaudi again, After to Barcelona. I returned ready to was Photography' study confront and I preparation, Gaudi. After the photographing Gaud! concentration centered on conference, my the gave me of careful Sagrada Familia, Guell Park, Casa Calvet, Palacio Guell, Casa Vicens, Bellesguard, Crypt of the Guell Colony Church one week passed as if it day. I photographed quite a lot, but it was difficult to Gaudi. I knew I must return again. I exhibited my were one approach photographs upon so haunted "I returned began to by Gaudf. later that on a path walking to Park, I in his life pursue kind was of Zen me at of on I, first to introduce the about was the been written the opposite side my the the must earth. must prove in have Is this this A telegram was a good to for the book. Who to write the passed Kamaitachi, was the to talk to him used project after each visit "Mr. Takiguchi even a short one? that attitude of round stones photograph. Gaud! to Japan. I preface taking any Oh! of photographer, the preface for who wrote a more appropriate person much. While suspect possibly be Zen. His the formations to Barcelona to passed without Gaudi very to the Ritz Hotel: "Mr. Shuzo Takiguchi work of progress of to have might Gaudi. This time I essence. came suddenly life, as a away.' Mr. Takiguchi, am work. again returned waiting for response was the entrance to Casa Mila... Gaudi extravagant? hypothesis through my "In 1979, I of Gaudf's outline of in the Guell the garden, the design hypothesis too the interpretation. I a superficial photograph more of toward nature, toward his way created another and although only Why? year Gaudi tried to what was clearly the see more Tokyo, to return my good, I knew my first shooting Barcelona, else could he and have Three days preface? photographs. friend Why of should I Mird, whom not ask I knew Mird to Would it be too impolite, too respected write a preface unreasonable? Never mind, just try! "While I was in assistant about letter came poems. Barcelona, Mird my idea. Two from Barcelona. Mird One is in homage to was on vacation, so I spoke with months passed without answer. made Gaudi, the two drawings other with is to Mr. his Finally, beautiful Takiguchi." a Plates Cover Photograph: Embrace, #48, 1 970 Plate 1 Man and Plate 2 Man and Plate 3 Man and Plate 4 Ordeal Plate 5 Ordeal Plate 6 Kamaitachi, #8, 1 969 Kamaitachi, #23, 1 969 Plate 7 Plate 8 Plate 9 Woman, #20, 1960 Woman, #1 9, 1 960 Woman, #24, 1960 by Roses, #32, by Roses, #1 6, Embrace, #46, Embrace, #62, Plate 10 Man Plate 1 1 On on the 1 962 1 962 1 970 1 970 Rock, 1 975 the Great Plain Rock ot Yosemite, 1 974 Plate 1 2 Gaudi's Ceiling, Barcelona, 1 979 Plate 13 Gaudi's Ceiling, Barcelona, 1980 JftilHi ''SB * dsl I ^f "JJM .. sH r " Tsi .^E: ^ n>3 5 ats^^^ J i ^sl % - 10 12 13 Biographical Notes Eikoh Hosoe 1933 Born March 1 Son remains 1944 8, in Yonezawa Shinto priest; his home. of a During City, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan. in raised a Shinto evacuation, Hosoe wartime lives shrine 1975 in Tokyo. Tokyo with relatives by Ansel Adams to teach workshop, Hosoe is by his family. Accepts professorship at Tokyo College of Photography (presently Tokyo Institute of Polytechnics) where he establishes a photographic gallery and Again invited accompanied in program of Yonezawa the end until World War II. of internationally collecting important photographs a for educational purposes. 1951 Decides to become Prize in the Fuji Photo 1954 winning the Grand division. a photographer after Contest, student Graduates from Tokyo College of Photography. Unlike many firm; he 1976 First book, 35mm Photography. 1956 First one-person 1977 Participates in Tokyo." 1978 1959 Founds photographic group, 1960 One-person following film, 1961 Naval 1962 Woman," and published in book form. Produces 1 6mm black and the Killed- by Marries Misako Imai. for Mishima nearly begin. of publication 1963 Barakei, 1964 Travels -67 Lyons in Rochester, New York. Directs Judo and Modern Pentathlon, segments of Kon Ichikawa's documentary film, Tokyo Killed around Ofympics. First by Roses, the world; 1968 Organizes the with the cooperation of Publishes Kamaitachi, 1970 Reediting by by Roses) and of Killed 1971 1972 friendship of with Photographers" George Eastman House. by Shuzo Takiguchi. republication with new completely life. new and extensively. Judy Dater, Cole Weston, who gives who title book design. Yukio by Roses is published. Embrace is published by Yukio Mishima. Second daughter, Kumiko, born. Tours United States Nathan Gaudi in Barcelona Ordeal Welpotf with preface Meets Allen Dutton, Jack become important friends. Meets Hosoe permission Weston's Daybooks into Japanese. This to translate Edward project remains one of Hosoe's continuing lifeworks. 1973 Teaches first Arizona and exhibition. 1 974 workshops in the United States: Phoenix College, Columbia College, Chicago. First Light one-person Gallery, New York. Co-teaches Ansel Adams exhibition, 1981 First stage of and Gallery Workshop, Yosemite. of Gibson, and Miyatake," Technology seminar Photographs." of is presented Technology. Concurrent photographs and books held at Photography at and by exhibitions of Rochester Institute Technology, Visual Studies Workshop of Toyo of 1960-1980" of Museum Ralph with project complete. Rochester Institute this of Austria. "The World Restoration Gaudi of the International George Eastman House, for which publication serves as a supplement. Major 1 960 retrospective film, Naval is the and second "Mois de la Photo Atomic Bomb, travels United States in American Federation Experimental Films "The World's Great preface own Son, Kenji, born. the architecture Roses tor (Ordeal Mishima takes his published. Kanako, born 1965. exhibition 1969 is establishes encounters (1964). First daughter, Organizes the 1982 "Eikoh Hosoe: Photographs Photographing France, Salzburg College, "Conservation begins photographing him for the later and Teaches workshop in Aries, Tokyo. Participates in Rochester Institute and white Roses. complete, preparations or 1980 Majorca, Spain. First group exhibition of Art, California. Santa Barbara Museum another at Atomic Bomb. Meets Yukio Mishima publication "Man exhibition: year 1979 the Gaudi. a corporation of six Kikuji Kawada, Ikko Narahara, Akira Sato, Akira Tanno, Shomei Tomatsu, and Hosoe himself. photographers: of of Barcelona, Spain. Begins photographing Meets Joan Mird in "VIVO," "VIVO," "International Conference second Photography," Architecture "An American Girl in exhibition, II," Photography," of his classmates, Hosoe is not hired by a photographic decides to become a free-lance photographer. 1955 "History of Japanese Photography After World University of Arizona. Teaches workshop at the "International Meeting of Aries, France. Delivers lecture, War 1960-1980." of Art Paris." a throughout the series: "Japanese Selected One-Person Exhibitions 1956 "An American Girl in 1960 "Man Tokyo," Woman," Konishiroku Konishiroku and 1968 "An Extravagantly Tragic Osaka 1977 "Neue Fotografie Aus Gallery, Tokyo Museum Gallery, Tokyo Comedy," Eyes Nikon Salon, Tokyo Gallery Shunju, Tokyo 1972 Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, New York 1973 Light 1974 International Culture Selected Books City Center, Antwerp, Belgium Fotogalerie Fiolet, Amsterdam, Holland Gallery, New York City Gallery, Barcelona, Spain Friends of and Barakei, 1971 Susan Spiritus Gallery, Newport Beach, California 1979 Salzburg College, Salzburg, 1980 1963 Osaka 1978 Portfolio Man 1969 Photography, Carmel, California Nikon Salon, Tokyo 1961 1965 FN AC Forum, Paris, Toulouse, France Pia Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium 1971 Group 1957 "Eyes -59 Technology, Rochester, New York of Ten 1960 "You Live '1962 Exhibitions Photographers," Tatsuo Fukushima, by organized Konishiroku Gallery, Tokyo Here," organized "NON," organized by J.P.S., Tokyo by Tatsuo Fukushima, Matsuya Department Store Gallery, Tokyo 1961-1962," 1963 "Japanese Contemporary Photography of 1966 Museum Modern Art, Tokyo <Sf}i Photographers," Ten Japanese Modern Contemporary Art, Tokyo 1967 "Photography in the Twentieth Lyons, National 1974 "New Japanese and Gallery of Museum Century," organized by of Nathan Canada, Ottawa Photography," organized Shoji Yamagishi, Museum of Modern by John Szarkowski Art, New York 1945-70," 1975 "History of organized Japanese by New edition of Barakei Shueisha Publishing Embrace, or Gendai Shichosha Publishing with new Publishing title, Ordeal by House). Roses (Tokyo: Incorporated). Hoyo (Tokyo: Shashin Hyoronsha Publishing). Contemporary Photography J.P.S., Tokyo, Nagoya Why, Mother, Why? and and Osaka I with Return to Hiroshima Anthenium) Susan Spiritus Gallery, Newport Beach, California Selected by Roses (Tokyo: Kamaitachi (Tokyo: Gendai Shichosha Takachan FNAC Forum, Lille, Grenoble, France of Killed with Miyuki Fututa (Tokyo: Kodansha International Publications). Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland Photo Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland Rochester Institute or Selected Children's Books Nikon 1982 Woman (Tokyo: Camera Art Incorporated). Austria Gallery, Lausanne, Switzerland "Paule 1981 and House). Spectrum "Gaudi," Suomen Kameraseurojen Group Show, organized by Bob Werling, Santa Barbara, Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California 1971 1977 by organized Italy College, Arizona 1976 Photographers," of "VIVO" Phoenix Light Dr. Breicha, Origin," 1970 1975 by organized by 1978 "Japanese Photography: Today and Its Lorenzo Merlo & others, Galleria d'arte Moderna, Bologna, Institution, Washington, D.C. Focus Gallery/San Francisco, California New York organized Art, Graz, Austria Modern Litto, Helsinki, Finland and Smithsonian Gallery, of Japan," Betty with Jean Lifton (New York: Norton). Betty Jean Lifton (New York: Rochester Institute of Technology One Lomb Memorial Drive Post Office Box 9887 Rochester, NY 14623 38 4 Eikoh Hosoe: Photographs 1960-1980