MetaFilter posts tagged with photography and japan

Hiroshi Watanabe

vronsky — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:01:04 -0800

Hiroshi Watanabe -- Love Point::Suo Sarumawashi::Ideology in Paradise::"I see angels every day"::Kabuki Players::Japanese Studies::Northern Places::Species Among Us

Urban exploration Japan: abandoned mining town

planetkyoto — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 06:34:53 -0800

Urban exploration Japan: abandoned mining town. Step into the doctor's office for a dose of creepy. Three-part photo essay. "Haikyo" in the blog post title means "ruins".

A blog about Japanese photography seen from abroad.

chunking express — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 08:38:20 -0800

A blog about Japanese photography seen from abroad. The site hasn't been updated in quite some time, but it is still full of a lot of interesting stuff.

“Sever the ignorant doubt in your heart with the sword of self-knowledge

KokuRyu — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:39:13 -0800

Tsukiji knife photos by Tony McNicol. List of published articles. List of selected photo galleries. I’ve been taking photos of a 240 year old knife shop in Tsukiji fish market.... If you buy a knife at the shop you can bring it back to be sharpened for free. Website bio: Tony McNicol is a freelance journalist and photographer based in Tokyo (who has) been living in Japan for almost 8 years, working as a freelance journalist for over four years. (His) writing and photos have appeared in publications including National Geographic News, Discover Magazine, Wired Magazine, the Japan Times, the JAL and ANA inflight magazines and the Japanese-language edition of Newsweek. And a few more!

Japan through wonderful vintage photos

madamjujujive — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 10:30:07 -0800

Vintage 3-D stereoviews of old Japan, Meiji and Taisho era swimsuit girls, working people, geisha, and kids, old Japan salt prints, dozens of T. Enami glass slides, and strange or offbeat images: all part of a vast and superb collection of Japanese photos from 1862 to 1930 by flickr user Okinawa Soba. More on the work of T-Enami, "King of the Stereoview, Master of the Lantern-Slide And Prolific, Anonymous Contributor To the World of Yokohama Album Views"

The Japanese Garden

Effigy2000 — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:54:57 -0800

Paradise: The Gardens of Tokyo. A collection of amazing photographs of Japanese gardens as taken by Tim Porter. Impressed and want to see more Japanese gardens? Look here and here for more links to more photos of some beautiful Japanese-style gardens from around the world. For further reading, check out Meditations on the Japanese Garden and The Modern Japanese Garden. And if after all of that you feel inspired to turn your garden into a Japanese garden of your own, The Japanese Garden Journal has you covered. Mind you, building the bridge sounds kind of tricky...

They carried the joys and sorrows of those living with the sea

tellurian — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:45:52 -0800

Iwase Yoshiyuki "In the late 1920s, young Yoshiyuki received an early Kodak camera as a gift. Since the main livelihood of the town came from the sea, he gravitated there, and soon found a passion for "the simple, even primitive beauty" of ama – girls and women who harvested seaweed, turban shells and abalone from beneath the coastal waters." "By the late 1960s, they had disappeared. This body of work stands as the final, most comprehensive visual document of the life and work of these divers." [NSFW] Note: the Ama section has more than the 15 previews shown, when you enter the slide show (there are 45).

Old Folks' Homes

ceiriog — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 07:30:05 -0800

Bert Teunissen - Domestic Landscapes. Photographs of (mostly) senior citizens in their living rooms and kitchens. Since 1996, Dutch photographer Bert Teunissen has been travelling around western Europe, and more recently Japan, making portraits of people living in houses built before electricity was commonplace. His travel diaries give more background, and more photos of the houses. Article in the IHT from last April.

First of the photojournalists

Abiezer — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:55:43 -0800

Japanese places and people photographed by Felice Beato, a pioneer 19th century photographer who documented the Crimean War, the Indian Mutiny and the Anglo-French military intervention in China before opening a studio in Yokohama in 1863. He also seems to have been the first photographer in Korea.Wikipedia NYPL archive First two links are units in MIT's Visualizing Cultures project.

Lost Places in Japan

stavrosthewonderchicken — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 05:31:24 -0800

Lost Places in Japan

Everyone is crossing a line

spock — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 18:45:03 -0800

"What is so striking about the work is that EVERYONE is crossing a line: The couples who are engaged in sex in public, the Peeping Toms who trespass on that intimacy, the photographer who has betrayed his acquaintance's trust, and of course US -- so willing to look at what was not meant for us to see." See also: NYTimes slideshow Layers of Voyeurism (Via boingboing) SFW, IMHO

Im in ur sewer killing your d00dz

dersins — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 08:32:03 -0800

Some amazing photos of the storm sewer system in Tokyo. (Further reading)

Quicktime panoramas of Kyoto

carter — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 17:05:35 -0800

Quicktime panoramas of Kyoto

Japanese historical photographs ca. 1910

Rumple — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 14:43:16 -0800

A nice set of photographic glass-plate transparencies depicting life in Japan ca. 1910. These "Yokohama photographs" were sold to foreign tourists between about 1868 and 1912. I found the Crafts and Trades section most interesting.

The last samurai

tellurian — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 18:51:24 -0800

Bakumatsu - from this to this. Photographs from an exhibition at the University of Tokyo. [related]

Photos of Poverty and Rebuilding in Post-War Japan

sudasana — Fri, 04 May 2007 13:35:58 -0800

The Walter Pennino Photo Collection of the Occupation of Japan. Eighty photographs of Japan under Allied occupation taken around 1948, from children enjoying a picture-card show, to fishermen, to repatriated soldiers. (Follow the "pic index" link on the front page to see the thumbnail images.)

Photos from Hiroshima

jonson — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 18:41:52 -0800

Photos from Hiroshima in August of 1945. Long supressed by the occupying U.S. forces, a highly unsettling (and decidedly NSFW) collection of photos from the days immediately after August 6th. Via.

generations

nickyskye — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 21:19:21 -0800

The old and the new Japan in one frame. The delicate relationship of Oyako, parent and child. In 1982 American photographer Bruce Osborn began what has become his lifelong work. For the last 25 years he took pictures of one parent with one child in a white studio setting.

Japanese Urban Ruins PhotoGalleries

jonson — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 23:04:37 -0800

Amazing collection of several galleries full of Japanese "urban ruins" photos, including abandoned amusement parks, refineries, apartment blocks, hospitals, schools, bowling alleys, & much more, including Battleship Island, the (previously posted) abandoned coal mining island off the coast of Nagasaki. Via.

Quicktime VR photos of Tokyo

carter — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 13:30:52 -0800

Quicktime VR photos of Tokyo - tunnels - night - large drains - buildings - etc. The nav is mainly in Japanese but the "VR List" link, lower right, seems to be the main index.

Photography of Japan's Underground

jonson — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 22:57:00 -0800

Joe Nishizawa's new photojournalism book, Deep Inside, is a visual exploration of the amazing, highly mechanized world under Japan's urban areas. This brief interview with the author is accompanied by several interesting photos.

Howard French - Asia photos

carter — Mon, 29 May 2006 10:29:44 -0800

Howard French - Asia photos Photos from across Asia by Howard French, who works for the New York Times. Includes many photos of the 'Disappearing Shanghai' that is being obliterated by the city's relentless urbanization.

Even this site's Engrish has a certain grace.

orange swan — Wed, 03 May 2006 08:36:18 -0800

Avenue is a site of a snap photograph. Please enjoy it slowly. Here's a Japanese site of exquisite photographs. And lest I be accused of self-posting, let me say for the record that I neither took nor posed for the photos in the Orange Swan series.

Silk Roads

tellurian — Mon, 01 May 2006 20:57:08 -0800

The Digital Silk Roads Project continues to grow apace with more additions from the Toyo Bunko rare books archive. Now available online, among others, are Les grottes de Touen-Houang, The Thousand Buddhas and several German books, including Chotscho. Unfortunately, all of the high resolution images are greyscale. [related]

Tom Gally's photographs of oddball stuff around Yokohama

Slithy_Tove — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 03:18:34 -0800

Outside staircases. Doors. Stacks of stuff. People sleeping outside. And more. Mainly in Yokohama. Photographs by Tom Gally.