Exhibition

■ August Sander
Born in Germany in 1876. While working at a mining company, he gained experience as a photographer's assistant and became fascinated with the world of photography. He later opened his own photography studio in Cologne and produced numerous works, mainly portraits. His representative works include "Antlitz der Zeit" (Face of the Times) and "Menschen des 20. Jahrhunderts" (Men of the 20th Century), and were praised for their deep portrayals of human beings that reflected social changes. He died in 1964. ​

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■ Shinya Ito
Born in Fukushima Prefecture in 1964. After graduating from the Department of Photography at Nihon University College of Art, he joined an advertising photography studio. While working on advertising photography, he began creating his own monochrome works with a large camera. In 1997, he left the company and moved to the UK. Based in London, he began creating works by photographing various parts of Europe. His representative works include "IRELAND - To the Sacred Island" (Nikon Salon, 2009), "THE CELTS - The Kingdom of the Wind" (gallery bauhaus, 2009), and "Czech Republic - The City of Dim Light" (gallery bauhaus, 2012). ​

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■ Toshio Enomoto
Born in Tokyo in 1947. After graduating from the Department of Photography at Tokyo Zokei University, he joined the Japan Design Center. After going independent, he worked in advertising while continuing to create his own works. He continues to exhibit his works both at home and abroad, and in recent years has focused on platinum prints. His representative works include "Far East" (Total Planning Publishing Bureau, 1993), "Kagirohi (Sakura, Kyoto, Dayu)" (Heibonsha, 2009), and "CIRCUS" (Yobisha, 2024).

 

■ Masato Okazaki

Born in Kochi Prefecture in 1959. Based in Tokyo since the 1980s. His fine prints using gelatin silver prints have been highly praised both in Japan and overseas, and his activities are diverse. He mainly uses large cameras for his work, and in recent years has continued to shoot mainly in the northern part of Japan. He has held the exhibitions "Northern Light: A Journey to Encounter Light" (2015), "Etude" (2018), and "Northern Light 2" (2022) at gallery bauhaus.

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■ Tatsuo Kotaki

Born in Tokyo in 1949. Graduated from the Department of Photography at Tokyo Zokei University. He has published the photo collections "Paris Street Performers" (text by Umino Hiroshi, published by Kyuryudo, 1983) and "VENEZIA" (text by Shiono Nanami, published by Chikumashobo, 1991), and has attracted attention for his work with the magazine "Marie Claire". His representative works include "VISIONS OF UK" (2009), "PARIS: Corridor of Light" (2013), "JARDIN d' HIVER: In a Winter Garden" (2015), and "LABYRINTH: Venice, the Water Labyrinth" (2019), and he continues to present works with a European theme.

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■ Atsushi Sugiura

Born in Gunma Prefecture in 1968. In 2011, he participated in Workshop 2B and studied photography. Since then, he has participated in many exhibitions in Tokyo and produced works using silver halide prints. At gallery bauhaus, he has participated in "LIFE" (2018) and "PANORAMIC PHATOGRAPHY" (2021).

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■ Takuya Suzuki

Born in Shizuoka Prefecture in 1993. Graduated from the photography department of Osaka Visual Arts Night School. Participated in the self-managed gallery "Kaido" in 2020 and "VACUUM" in 2022. He mainly creates street snap works and is currently based in Tokyo.

 

■ Mieko Tadokoro

In 1990, she moved to France and encountered pinhole photography, and began creating her work in Paris. In 2004, she founded the Japan Pinhole Photography Association, and has served as its president since 2005. She exhibits her monochrome gelatin silver prints both in Japan and overseas, and also holds workshops and lectures. Her photo books include "Pinhole Paris" and "I Want to Meet Ichiyo" (both published by Kawade Shobo Shinsha), and her technique books include "Pinhole Photography of Mothers and Children" (Bijutsu Shuppansha) and "Taking Pinhole Photography" (Yukeisha). Gallery Bauhaus held "Pinhole Paris" (2018) and "VEDUTA: Pinhole Venice" (2019).

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■ Akifumi Tanaka

Born in Saitama Prefecture in 1948. Studied photography at Tokyo College of Photography. He served as a TPO Photo School Navigator and a part-time lecturer at the Musashino Art University Department of Film and Media Studies, and served as a director and council member at the Tokyo College of Photography from 2005 to 2015. His representative works include "Tamakei" (Toseisha, 2005) and "Chichibu Fukei" (Toseisha, 2023).

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■ Chotoku Tanaka

Born in Tokyo in 1947. Graduated from the Department of Photography at Nihon University College of Art. While still a student, he held a solo exhibition at the Ginza Nikon Salon in 1969, the youngest person ever to do so at the time. After leaving the Nippon Design Center, he stayed in Vienna for seven and a half years from 1973 to 1980, and in 1982 he stayed in New York for one year as a publicly funded artist sent by the Agency for Cultural Affairs. While producing works, he has also published numerous books as a camera critic. Gallery bauhaus will host the exhibitions "PRAHA" (2007), "WIEN 2 Gram Light 1973-1980" (2015), "PRAHA Chotoku 1985・2016" (2016), "WIEN CT70" (2017), "HAN-DIN 2018" (2018), "Today Tokyo 1964/2020" (2021), and "Vienna and Leica Days" (2022).

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■ Hiroaki Tanaka

Graduated from the Department of Photography at Nihon University College of Art in 1966. Taught at the Department of Photography at Tokyo Zokei University from 1967 to 2005. In 2013, he exhibited "FRAGILE: In the Margins of Silver Particles," a work that captured the shadows hidden in urban landscapes over a period of 12 years using a Rolleiflex.

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■ Shuntaro Tanikawa

Born in Tokyo in 1931. In 1952, he published his debut work, Two Billion Light Years of Solitude, which drew him into the limelight. Since then, he has been active in a wide range of fields, including poetry collections, essays, picture books, fairy tales, translation, scriptwriting, songwriting, and photography. In 2023, Tanikawa will publish "Paradise," a collection of two books that include monochrome photographs taken by Tanikawa when he was 20 to 21 years old, and poems he wrote during the same period, selected by Tanikawa himself and adding new poems. In 2023, gallery bauhaus will hold a photo exhibition of the work, with prints made by Tatsuro Kotaki from the original negatives. He passed away in 2024.

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■ Keiichi Tahara

Born in Kyoto Prefecture in 1951. Influenced by his grandfather, a photographer, he began studying photography in his teens. He moved to France in 1972 and began working as a photographer based in Paris. She made her debut with "City" (1973-1976) and won the Grand Prix de l'Arles International Photography Festival for "Window" (1973-1980), attracting international attention. She continued to expand her range of expression, including installations, with her skillful use of light, and was active in many fields, including photography, video, and architecture. She passed away in 2017.

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■ Noriko Nasu

In 1990, she moved to Canada. After working for a local company, she became an assistant to a Canadian photographer. She also worked on projects commissioned by NPOs and the Vancouver Board of Education. She is currently actively creating her own works in Vancouver. At gallery bauhaus, she participated in the group exhibition "PANORAMIC PHOTOGRAPHY" (2022) and the group exhibition "Seven Women Photographers" (2023).

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■ Harry Callahan

Born in Detroit, Michigan, USA in 1912. Graduated from the School of Engineering at Michigan State University. He worked in the accounting department of Chrysler Corporation and married Eleanor in 1936. He joined a photography club and began taking photographs, but in 1941 he encountered the photographs of Ansel Adams and began taking photographs seriously with a large camera. He later became a professor at the Chicago Institute of Design (New Bauhaus) and other institutions, and was active as an educator. In 1976, he held a photo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and became one of America's leading photographers. He died in Atlanta in 1999.

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■ Mizushima Masami

Born in Hiroshima Prefecture. Graduated from Kyoto Women's University Junior College. After teaching and working for a company, he began working as a freelance announcer in 1993. In 2002, he moved to Prague and lived there for 11 years. Around 2008, he began taking photographs of Prague with film cameras, mainly Rolleiflex, and taught himself how to print in the darkroom. While living in Prague, he was the photo editor for the International Women's Association of Prague, in charge of photos for their monthly magazine. He has photographed the cover of the Japanese magazine "Praha BT Journal". He returned to Japan in 2014. Since 2020, he has been based in Hiroshima and creating his works. At Gallery Bauhaus, he has participated in "Solitude: Wrapped in Gentle Solitude" (2016) and other group exhibitions.

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■ Jun Morinaga

Born in Nagasaki Prefecture in 1937. After graduating from Nihon University College of Art, he joined the photography department of Iwanami Productions in 1961. The following year, he left the company to become an assistant to Eugene Smith, who was photographing Hitachi, and served as Smith's assistant for one year. After working as Eugene Smith's assistant, he continued to work on his own work. His representative works include "Moment Monument" (Nikon Salon, 1969), the photo book "River - Accumulated Shadows" (Yugensha, 1978), and the photo book "WAVE - All things change" (Kazetabisha, 2014). Gallery Bauhaus will hold "WAVE" (2016) and "Moment Monument" (2023). He passed away in 2018.

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■ Eugene Smith

Born in Kansas, USA in 1918. He began taking photographs at the age of 14, influenced by his mother, an amateur photographer. After his father's death, he began taking photographs as a photojournalist and brought them to various graphic magazines. Before he turned 20, his work in graphic magazines such as "Life" was recognized, and he reported on the situation during World War II from the front lines, making a good start as a photojournalist. In 1945, just before the end of World War II, he was seriously injured all over his body in Okinawa and spent about two years recuperating, but even after his recovery, he published many photo essays and created the golden age of photojournalism. From 1971 to 1974, he covered the pollution problem in Minamata, Japan. His attitude of reporting the truth based on humanism often brought him into conflict with magazine editorial departments, but he never lost his single-minded creative drive until his later years. At gallery bauhaus, he held "Walking to Paradise" (2012) and "The Glow of Mercy - Days of Love and Truth" (2021). He died in Arizona in 1978.

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■ Sen Yokotani

Born in Okayama Prefecture in 1961. He studied photography as a studio man and freelance assistant, assisting photographers. In 1990, he moved to France. In search of subjects, he traveled to deserts, snowy mountains, ruins and refugee camps in Eastern and Western Europe, South America, India and Africa. While continuing to travel, he moved his base to Okayama and continued to pursue his own unique expression, including his own photographic paper. At gallery bauhaus, he held "Meditation" (2009) and "Forest Story" (2013), and the number of works sold was the highest ever at the gallery. In 2024, he published the photo book "Meditation" (published by Shoshi Minamoto) and held a photo exhibition of the same work at bauhaus, attracting attention.

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■ Josef Sudek

Born in Prague, Czech Republic in 1896. After injuring his right arm in World War I, he began working as a photographer in the 1920s. He was called the "Poet of Prague" for his poetic depictions of Prague city and suburban landscapes, still lifes, and other works using a large wooden view camera. He died in 1976.

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■ Robert Frank

Born in Switzerland in 1924. In 1944, he served in the Swiss military. In 1947, he moved to New York and worked for magazines such as Harper's Bazaar. From 1950 to 1951, he worked in France, Spain, and the UK, and after returning to the United States in 1952, he began working as a freelance photographer. From 1955 to 1956, he received a Guggenheim Foundation grant and produced his signature work, "The Americans." He went on to produce many films, including "Moving Out," and left behind many works. In 1970, Kazuhiko Motomura visited Frank, and in 1972 he published "The Lines Of My Hand" (Yogensha), and in 1982 he published "Flower Is..." (Yogensha). Gallery Bauhaus held "Outside My Window", "Flower Is" (2011), "The Lines Of My Hand", "Quiet Days" (2013), and "Robert Frank: A Great Retrospective" (2020). In 2019, a large-scale Robert Frank exhibition was held in Japan, and during the exhibition period, he passed away in Canada on September 9th.