When you're in a country as beautiful as Japan, you'll want to document as much as you can. You'll want to take photos of every meal, every temple, every cherry blossom, every vending machine. The ...

There's no way you can really reduce the photographic history of a place to just a few artists, let alone two. But the curators at an L.A. museum... There's no way you can really reduce the ...

Takeuchi’s meditation on dissident women is at the center of I’m So Happy You Are Here: Japanese Women Photographers from the 1950s to Now, which references these three historical examples, though is ...

Most photographs of real-life events tend to be documentary by nature, but the kind of photographic image-making that makes a point of approaching its subjects with an “objective” viewpoint and a ...

NEW YORK — “The Incomplete Araki” is a knowingly redundant title for an exhibition of Japan’s most prolific, most controversial and most disobedient photographer. For more than 50 years, Nobuyoshi ...

A pair of Japanese schoolgirls primp their hair before a long mirror, preparing for the perfect shot. But they are not taking a smartphone selfie, they are using a "purikura" photo booth. Old-style ...

An elongated, lumpy form seems suspended, like a flayed body twisting in the wind. One fears to find a head dangling at its tip, but the form ends in a gnarled, blackened mass instead. “Nagasaki, ...

“The Yamamoto family values were forged in small spaces,” the Japanese photographer Masaki Yamamoto told me recently. For eighteen years, his family of seven coexisted in a one-room apartment in Kobe.