is a Japanese photographer.

Biography

Hara was born in Toyama in 1967.CV of Mikiko Hara
Third District Gallery. Accessed 1 March 2013.
Tosei Gallery. Accessed 1 March 2013. She graduated from

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in 1990 with a degree in literature, and then studied at the Tokyo College of Photography until 1996.

Photography

Using a medium-format camera, Hara takes photographs of people she encounters outside, in the train, and so forth. She said "My shooting style is so-called snapshot, so I can say all of my photographs were taken by a mere accident, . . . They are the photographs of somewhere yet nowhere." Comparing her photography with that of Rinko Kawauchi, Ferdinand Brueggeman writes

Mikiko Hara's photography is poetic as well, but she has a different topic. She talks about distance and isolation of people in public spaces – especially of women.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

* ''Is as It''. Gallery le Deco (

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, Tokyo), 1996. * ''Agnus Dei''. Ginza Nikon Salon (

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, Tokyo), 1998. * ''Utsuro no seihō'' (). Shinjuku Konica Plaza (

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, Tokyo), 2001. The Third Gallery Aya (

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), 2001. * ''Hatsugo no shūen'' (). Guardian Garden (Ginza, Tokyo), July 2004. * ''Hysteric Thirteen'' publication exhibition. Place M (Shinjuku, Tokyo), August–September 2005. * ''Humoresque''. Appel (Kyōdō, Tokyo), 2006. * ''Blind Letter''. Cohen Amador Gallery (New York), 2007. * ''Kumoma no atosaki'' (). Gallery Tosei ( Nakano, Tokyo), May 2008. * ''Blind Letter''. Third District Gallery (Shinjuku, Tokyo), June 2010. *''In the Blink of an Eye 1996-2009.'
Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery
(New York), September-November 2017. *''Kyrie'
Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery
September - October 2019

Other exhibitions

* ''Puraibētorūmu 2: Shin sekai no shashin hyōgen'' () = ''Private Room II: Photographs by a New Generation of Women in Japan''. Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito ( Mito, Ibaraki), April–June 1999. * ''Japan: Keramik und Fotografie: Tradition und Gegenwart''. Deichtorhallen (Hamburg), January–May 2003. * Pingyao International Photography Festival ( Pingyao, China), 2004. * ''Nichijō kara no tabi'' (). Shinjuku Epsite (Shinjuku, Tokyo), November–December 2005. * ''Absolutely Private: Contemporary Photography, vol 4'' = . Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography (Ebisu, Tokyo), March–April 2006. * ''A Private History''. Fotografisk Center (Copenhagen), September 2007 – January 2008. *''Sangyō toshi Kawasaki no ayumi 100-nen'' (). Kawasaki City Museum ( Kawasaki), 2007. * ''Shashin no genzai, kako, mirai: Shōwa kara kyō made'' (). Yokohama Civic Art Gallery (

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), December 2009. *''Shibui: Six Japanese Photographers 1920s–2000''. Stephen Cohen Gallery (Los Angeles), April–June 2009. *''In Focus: Tokyo''. J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, California), August–December 2014.

Collections

* The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL *

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in the BnF OPAC. Accessed 1 March 2013. *

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Books

* ''Hysteric Thirteen.'' Tokyo: Hysteric Glamour, 2005. * ''These Are Days.'' Tokyo: Osiris, 2014. .The publisher's page about ''These Are Days'' i
here
* ''Change.'' New York: Gould Collection, 2016. . With a short story by Stephen Dixon, "Change." Edition of 500 copies plus 26 copies with a print.The publisher's page about ''Change'' i
here

Notes

References

External links

Mikiko Hara's Zeiss Super Ikonta 531
* Maria Lokke,

, ''New Yorker'' photo booth, 27 May 2011. {{DEFAULTSORT:Hara, Mikiko 1967 births Living people Keio University alumni People from Toyama Prefecture 20th-century Japanese photographers 21st-century Japanese photographers 20th-century Japanese women photographers 21st-century Japanese women photographers