Ikkō Narahara picture. was a Japanese photographer. His work is held in the collection of the

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in New York.

Early life and education

Born in

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, Narahara studied law at

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(graduating in 1954) and, influenced by statues of Buddha at

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, art history at the graduate school of

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, from which he received an MA in 1959.

Career

He had his first solo exhibition, ''Ningen no tochi'' (Human land), at the Matsushima Gallery (

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) in 1956. In this Narahara showed Kurokamimura, a village on

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. The exhibition brought instant renown. In his second exhibition, "Domains", at the

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in 1958, he showed a Trappist monastery in Tobetsu (

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), and a women's prison in

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. In the meantime, Narahara had shown his works in the first (1957) of three exhibitions titled The Eyes of Ten; exhibited in all three, and went on to co-found the short-lived Vivo collective. From 1962 to 1965 he stayed in Paris, and after a time in Tokyo, from 1970 to 1974 in New York City. During this time he took part in a class by the American photographer

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. He recorded Arbus' speech during these classes. These recordings would become an interesting document of the artist's statements about her own work shortly before she committed suicide. Narahara's work often depicted isolated communities and extreme conditions. He made much use of wide-angle lenses, even hemispherical-coverage ("circular")

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es. In 1967 Narahara won the Photographer of the Year Award from the Japan Photo Critics Association. He won numerous other prizes. From 1999 to 2005, Narahara was a professor at the Graduate School of

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Works by Narahara

Booklength collections

*''Yōroppa: seishi shita jikan'' (, Where time has stopped). Kajima, 1967. *''Supēn: Idai naru gogo'' () ''España: Grand tarde, Fiesta, Vaya con Dios.'' Tokyo: Kyūryūdō, 1969. *''Japanesuku'' (, Japanesque). Tokyo: Mainichi Shinbun-sha, 1970. *''Ōkoku'' () / ''Man and his land.'' Tokyo: Chūōkoronsha, 1971. *''Shōmetsu shita jikan'' () / ''Where time has vanished.'' Tokyo: Asahi Shinbun-sha, 1975. *''Seven From Ikko.'' Tokyo : Unac, 1976. *''Ōkoku: Chinmoku no sono, kabe no naka'' (). Tokyo: Asahi Sonorama, 1978. *''Chikakute haruka na tabi'' (). Tokyo: Shūeisha, 1979. *''Hikari no kairō: San Maruko'' (, Arcade of light: Piazza San Marco). Tokyo: Unac, 1981. *''Shashin no jikan'' (). Tokyo: Kōsakusha, 1981. With Seigow Matsuoka (). *''Narahara Ikkō'' (, Ikkō Narahara). Shōwa shashin zenshigoto 9. Tokyo: Asahi Shinbun-sha, 1983. *''Venetsia no yoru'' () / ''Venice: Nightscapes.'' Tokyo: Iwanami, 1985. . Most of the text is in Japanese only, but the captions and an essay by Narahara are in English as well as Japanese. *''Shōzō no fūkei'' (). Tokyo: Shinchōsha, 1985. . *''Ningen no tochi'' (), ''Human land.'' Tokyo: Libroport, 1987. **Fukkan, 2017. *''Hoshi no kioku'' (, The memory of stars). Tokyo: Parco, 1987. *''Venetsia no hikari'' () / ''Venetian Light.'' Tokyo: Ryūkō Tsūshin, 1985. . *''Burōdowei'' () / ''Broadway.'' Tokyo: Creo, 1991. . *''Dyushan dai-garasu to Takiguchi Shūzō shigā bokkusu'' () / ''Marcel Duchamp large glass with Shuzo Takiguchi cigar box.'' Tokyo: Misuzu, 1992. . *''Kū'' () / ''Emptiness.'' Tokyo: Libroport, 1994. . *'' Takemitsu, Tōru'' and ''

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''. ''Ikko Narahara: Japanesque.'' Milan: Motta, 1994. . In Italian *''Revised and augmented edition:'' Tokyo: Creo, 1995. *''Tokyo, the '50s.'' Tokyo: Mole, 1996. . *''Narahara Ikkō'' (, Ikkō Narahara). Tokyo: Iwanami, 1997. *''Poketto Tōkyō'' () / ''Pocket Tokyo.'' Tokyo: Creo, 1997. . *''Ten'' () / ''Heaven.'' Tokyo: Creo, 2002. *''Mukokuseki-chi'' () / ''Stateless Land: 1954.'' Tokyo: Creo, 2004. . *''Jikū no kagami'' () / ''Mirror of space and time.'' Tokyo: Shinchōsha, 2004. . *''En'' () / ''En: Circular vision.'' Tokyo: Creo, 2004. .

Other books with work by Narahara

*Hiraki, Osamu, and Keiichi Takeuchi. ''Japan, a Self-Portrait: Photographs 1945–1964.'' Paris: Flammarion, 2004. Also presents work by

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, Tadahiko Hayashi, Eikō Hosoe,

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, Shigeichi Nagano,

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, and

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. * ''Nihon nūdo meisakushū'' (, Japanese nudes). ''Camera Mainichi'' bessatsu. Tokyo: Mainichi Shinbunsha, 1982. Pp. 194–99 show nudes by Narahara. *''Nihon shashin no tenkan: 1960 nendai no hyōgen'' () / ''Innovation in Japanese Photography in the 1960s.'' Tokyo: Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, 1991. Exhibition catalogue, text in Japanese and English. Pp. 18–29 show a selection of Narahara's earlier work. (That on p. 23 is upside down, as pointed out in an erratum slip.) *''Shashin toshi Tōkyō'' (写真都市Tokyo) / ''Tokyo/City of Photos.'' Tokyo: Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, 1995. Catalogue of an exhibition held in 1995. Also presents work by

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, Ryūji Miyamoto,

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, Shigeichi Nagano,

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, Masato Seto,

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, and

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. Captions and texts in both Japanese and English. *Yamagishi, Shoji, ed. ''Japan, a self-portrait.'' New York: International Center of Photography, 1979. (hard), paper). Also presents works by

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, and

. *Yamagishi, Shoji, and John Szarkowski, eds. ''New Japanese photography.'' New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1974. (hard), (paper). Also presents work by

, Eikō Hosoe,

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, Bishin Jūmonji,

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, Ken Ohara,

(as Shigeru Tamura),

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Collections

, New York: 11 prints (as of January 2020) *

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Notes

References

General sources

* Tucker, Anne Wilkes, et al. ''The History of Japanese Photography.'' New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003. .

External links

Narahara comments on ''En''
and on his photography in general. *

at Fuji Film *

* ''Nihon shashinka jiten'' (『日本写真家事典』, ''328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers''). Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000. {{DEFAULTSORT:Narahara Ikko 1931 births Japanese photographers 2020 deaths Artists from Fukuoka Prefecture Photography in Italy Recipients of the Medal with Purple Ribbon