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Eikoh Hosoe
(From Wikipedia, the
free encyclopedia)
Eikoh Hosoe (Hosoe Eikō;
b. 18 March 1933 in Yonezawa, Yamagata) is a Japanese photographer and
filmmaker who emerged in the experimental arts movement of post-World War
II Japan. He is known for his psychologically charged images, often
exploring subjects such as death, erotic obsession, and irrationality.
Through his friendships and artistic collaborations he is linked with the
writer Yukio Mishima and 1960s avant-garde artists such the dancer Tatsumi
Hijikata.
After attending The Tokyo College of Photography in the 1950's Hosoe,
joined “Demokrato” an avant-garde artist's group led by the artist Ei Q,
while still a student. In 1960, Hosoe created the Jazz Film Laboratory (Jazzu
Eiga Jikken-shitsu) with Hijikata, Shuji Terayama, and Shōmei Tōmatsu. The
Jazz Film Laboratory was a multidisciplinary artistic project aimed at
producing highly expressive and intense works such as Hosoe's 1960 short
black and white film Navel and A-Bomb (Heso to genbaku).
With Hijikata, Hosoe created Kamaitachi, a series of images that reference
stories of a supernatural being — 'weasel-sickle' — that haunted the
Japanese countryside of Hosoe's childhood. In the photographs, Hijikata is
seen as a wandering ghost mirroring the stark landscape and confronting
farmers and children.
With Mishima as a model, Hosoe created a series of dark, erotic images
centered on the male body, Ordeal by Roses (Bara-kei, 1963). The series
(set in Mishima's Tokyo house) positions Mishima in melodramatic poses.
Mishima would follow his fantasies, eventually committing suicide by
seppuku in 1970.
Hosoe has been the director of the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts (Kiyosato,
Yamanashi) since its opening in 1995.
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Ordeal by Roses (Barakei) #16, 1961
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Ordeal by Roses (Barakei) #6, 1961
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Ordeal by Roses (Barakei) #32, 1961
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Ordeal by Roses (Barakei) #1, 1961
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Ordeal by Roses (Barakei) #26, 1961
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Ordeal by Roses (Barakei) #18, 1961
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Ordeal by Roses (Barakei) #29, 1961
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Simon: A Private Landscape / Hatonamachi Red-light Disctrict, Tokyo, 1971
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Yoko Ashikawa, Butoh Dancer, 1972
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Kamaitachi #23,
1965
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Man and Woman #33, 1970
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Ordeal by Roses (Barakei), 1961
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Ordeal By Roses (Barakei) #6
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Embrace No. 60
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Head of white woman in black man's arms
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Paris 3
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Sunflower Song
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Man and woman # 24
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Kamaitachi, 1965
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Barakei
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Kamaitachi
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Simmon
in Riverside Field
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Kamaitachi
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Barakei
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Kamaitachi
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Barakei
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Kimono
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Kamaitachi
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Kimono
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Man and woman 32, 1960
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