About Japanese Photographer, Eikoh HOSOE (b.1933, in Yonezawa, Yamagata Prefecture).

Eikō or Eikoh HOSOE (Japanese 細江 英公, Hosoe Eikō) is a Japanese photographer and film producer. His real given name is Toshihiro (敏廣). However, after World War II, he adopted the stage name Eikō to symbolize a new Japan. At the age of 17, he decided to study at the Tokyo College of Photography, which he left in 1951 after successfully graduating. In 1956, he had his first solo exhibition. His photographic work is strongly influenced by surrealism. He has been the director of the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts in Kiyosato in the Hokuto Municipality of Yamanashi Prefecture since its establishment in 1995, and has taught at the Tokyo Institute of Polytechnics since 1975.

Photo books by and with works by Eikoh HOSOE

  • 'Otoko to onna' (おとこと女, 'Man and Woman', 1959, 1961); 'Association of Dance Experience' (1960, 2020); 'Barakei. Killed by Roses' (1963, 1971, 1984, 1985, 2002 as 'Ba-ra-kei. Ordeal by Roses'); 'A Dog's Guide to Tokyo' (1969); 'Kamaitachi' (1969, 2006, 2009); 'Return to Hiroshima' (1970); 'Hōyō (抱擁; Embrace, 1971); 'Photographs 1960-1980' (1982); 'Gaudi no Uchū (ガウディの宇宙; "Gaudi's Universe" (1986, 1992); 'Meta' (1994); 'Eikoh Hosoe. Photography' (2002); 'A World of Spherical Dualism of Photography' (2006); 'Butterfly Dream' (2006); 'Shi no Hai: Deadly Ashes' (2007); 'Theatre of Memory' (2010); 'Simmon: A Private Landscape' (2012); Photographers A-Z' (2015, 2022, by Hans-Michael Koetzle); 'Eikoh Hosoe' (2021).

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'Theatre of Memory' by Eikoh HOSOE with photographs of Butoh dancers Tatsumi Hijikata (in 'Kamaitachi') as well as Kazuo Ohno ('Butterfly Dream') shows the ability to bring memories to life through the intersection of photography, dance theater & painting
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HC (no dust jacket, as issued) in slipcase, 37 x 27 x 2 cm., 90 pp., b/w ills., Japanese/English, Ltd. to 900 numbered copies
198,00 € *
Re-edit, HC with dust jacket, 25 x 33 x 2,5 cm., 112 pp., b/w ills., text language, English
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The xtremely rare photo volume 'Underground Generation' contains works by Daido MORIYAMA, Eikoh HOSOE, Jun MORINAGA, Masahisa FUKASE, Kishin SHINOYAMA and Kenji ISHIGURO who were in 1968 out and about with their cameras. in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo.
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This volume on Eikoh HOSOE shows photos, but also introduces the most important protagonists of the art of Japan after 1945. It also contains essays that offer new perspectives on the work, as well as reprints of a selection of previously published essays
from 68,00 € Weight 2.7 kg
The out-of-print photo book compendium 'Japanese Photobooks of the 1960s and '70s' by Kaneko & Vartanian presents relevant publications of that era. Some of the most influential works and forgotten gems are presented and placed in a sociological context.
498,00 € * Weight 1.7 kg
'Photographers A-Z' brings together photographers who have made a significant contribution to photographic culture, as well as the most important photographic volumes of the past century. The entries are illustrated with facsimiles from books & magazines.
from 16,00 €

Honors and awards
  • 1947: Fuji Photography Prize
    2003: Medal of Honor of the Royal Photographic Society, London on the occasion of its 150th founding anniversary and Honorary Fellowship of the same society.
    2010: Person of Special Cultural Merit

Exhibitions
  • 1983: Les Rencontres d'Arles, Southern France.
    2000: International Center of Photography (ICP), New York City