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Category: Photography

  • Shinako Sato

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    Barbie, like you’ve never seen her before. Photographer Shinako Sato reportedly worked for five years as a makeup artist for a mortician, daubing the dead with lipstick. Perhaps that explains her fascination with elaborately staged and dressed dioramas of stiff figures (thankfully, dolls not real dead people). Sato works with Barbie dolls and plastic figures,…

  • Shirokuma

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    SHIROKUMA is a beautiful flash-based online photographic magazine, and today marks the start of their first gallery exhibition, “Idle Network.” This is Shirokuma’s first gallery exhibition, after over two years on the scene as an online photographic magazine (http://srkm.org). The expressive power of photography was always a topic of concern to us, since photos easily…

  • Aircons on Display

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    Huschang Pourian’s “Aircon Minus 1” exhibition at Sign in Gaienmae.

  • Aircon Minus 1

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    Huschang Pourian is a designer living in Tokyo, and he currently has an exhibition displaying his photography of air conditioners in the city at the Sign Gallery in Gaienmae until March 30. Link via Boing Boing.

  • Manabu Yamanaka

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    In a recent comment thread, a reader brought up the site of photographer Manabu Yamanaka, mentioning the “Arakan” series covering homeless people.

  • Warning Sign Gallery

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    You like pictures of warning signs? You like pictures of Japanese warning signs, you say? Well, Juergen Specht has a gallery full of them. Link via K10K.

  • Nakagin Capsule Tower

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    Congrats to Lil for getting her pic of the Nakagin Capsule Tower featured on the Flickr blog.

  • Moriyama Daido

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    Photographer Moriyama Daido signing books yesterday at Nadiff in Aoyama. Nadiff is also hosting a small exhibition of his pictures, along with Araki’s, which I suppose is in conjunction with the Tokyo Opera City show, “Moriyama, Shinjuku, Araki.”