Book

MORE THAN ONE WORLD New Japanese Photography 50 Years On


DETAILS

Book Design: Toshimasa Kimura, Genki Abe
Published by: Akaaka Art Publishing
Size: H210mm × W142mm
Pages: 272 pages
Binding: Hardcover
Bilingual (Japanese/English)
Published in June 2025


ニュー・ジャパニーズ・フォトグラフィーから50年のいま

New Japanese Photography 50 Years On
本書は、1974年にニューヨーク近代美術館で開催された「New Japanese Photography」展から50年を記念して制作されました。同展は、ジョン・シャーカフスキーと山岸章二の共同キュレーションにより、日本人写真家の作品を初めて海外で大々的に紹介し、以降の欧米における日本写真研究や評価に多大な影響を与えた展示として今日まで語り継がれています。
本書に収録された、国内外のキュレーターや批評家、研究者などによる15本のテキストは、「T3 PHOTO FESTIVAL TOKYO 2024」における展示やシンポジウムをもとにそれぞれの視点で執筆され、大きく4章に分かれます。
まず展覧会の歴史的意義を再考し、次に当時見過ごされた視点に光を当て、さらにはグローバルな視座へと展開し、未来への展望へとつなげていきます。
また、「T3 PHOTO FESTIVAL TOKYO 2024」の各展示風景・図版と、ジョン・シャーカフスキーと山岸章二による当時の図録序文を巻頭に配し、従来の「New Japanese Photography」展から現代へと問い返し、ジェンダー、国際的な視点、インターネット以降の写真を含む表現媒体など、十分に論じられてこなかった側面にも焦点を当てています。 「New Japanese Photography」展から50年。日本の写真は世界からどのように見られてきたのか？ なにが見過ごされたのか？ジョン・シャーカフスキーが語った「世界はひとつだけではない（More than one world） 」という言葉を継承しながら、新たな対話をひらく一冊となることを願います。
Nearly every major cultural development has been driven by a sustained, almost obsessive passion. Japanese photography today enjoys worldwide recognition not only thanks to the efforts of people like John Szarkowski, Shoji Yamagishi, Sandra Phillips, and Ryuichi Kaneko, but also because of the generations before and after them who have preserved and passed on the necessary spark.
I believe that no matter how much we may strive for objectivity, our perspectives will always be distorted by our biases. But these biases can also be a force for change. Cultural narratives, contexts, and viewpoints are constantly evolving as each generation reexamines the choices and preferences of those who came before. This publication commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the 1974 exhibition New Japanese Photography at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. It was the first to introduce the work of Japanese photographers to an international audience and is now regarded as a major turning point in the critical reception and study of Japanese photography in the West.
The fifteen texts in this book are based on the exhibitions and symposia that formed the core program of T3 PHOTO FESTIVAL TOKYO 2024. Organized into four chapters, they examine the historical significance of the 1974 exhibition, explore perspectives it did not consider, extend the discussion to broader, global contexts, and finally venture a glimpse into the future.
In 1974, curator John Szarkowski concluded his introduction to the New Japanese Photography catalog by expressing the hope that photographers would “continue to explore the exhilarating possibility that in the arts at least there is after all more than one world.” It is my hope that this book will not only serve as a valuable resource for those interested in the current state of Japanese photography, but also spark fresh conversations and ideas and lead us to new worlds not yet explored.


SEKI Takanao｜関 貴尚

写真的転回 芸術写真とフォトコンセプチュアリズム以後
The Photographic Turn: Fine Art Photography and Post -Photoconceptualism

TAKASHIMA Megumu｜高嶋 慈

サンドラ・フィリップス インタビュー
Interview with Sandra Phillips