The Getty Center (Los Angeles) presents “The Younger Generation: Contemporary Japanese Photography“.
Several young Japanese photographers garnered attention in the 1990s, when their bold, colorful, often provocative pictures of themselves and their immediate worlds were collectively dubbed “girl photographs”.
This exhibition celebrates the emergence of five talented female photographers from Japan whose careers began in the 1990s and 2000s: Kawauchi Rinko, Onodera Yuki, Otsuka Chino, Sawada Tomoko, and Shiga Lieko.
Selected series by these artists evoke the influence of Ishiuchi Miyako, whose work is showcased in the companion exhibition Ishiuchi Miyako: Postwar Shadows.
The Younger Generation: Contemporary Japanese Photography
06.10.2015 – 21.02.2016
Lieko Shiga, Chiako, 2007. Courtesy of Galerie Priska Pasquer (Cologne)
Chino Otsuka, 1982 and 2005 – Paris, France, 2005. Courtesy of Chino Otsuka
Lieko Shiga, Portrait of Cultivation, 2009. Courtesy of Lieko Shiga
Yuki Onodera, Portrait of Second-hand Clothes No. 1, 1994. Courtesy of Yuki Onodera, Yossi Milo Gallery (New York)
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