Eikoh Hosoe

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Eikoh Hosoe (細江英公 Hosoe Eikō, born 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.

In 1951 Hosoe gained professional acclaim when he won the Fuji Film Award student category. While he was a student at the Tokyo College of Photography in 1952, he joined “Demokrato,” an avant-garde artists’ group led by the artist Ei-Q.

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In 1960, Hosoe founded the Jazz Film Laboratory (Jazzu Eiga Jikken-shitsu) with Shuji Terayama, Shintaro Ishihara, and others. 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).

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Through his friendships and artistic collaborations he is linked with the writer Yukio Mishima and 1960s avant-garde artists such as the dancer Tatsumi Hijikata.

With Mishima as a model, Hosoe created a series of dark, erotic images centered on the male body, Killed by Roses or Ordeal by Roses (Bara-kei, 1961–1962). The series (set in Mishima’s Tokyo house) positions Mishima in melodramatic poses.

With Hijikata as a model, Hosoe created Kamaitachi, a series of images that reference stories of a supernatural being — “sickle-toothed weasel” — 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. The Kamaitachi series was published in book form in 1969.

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Hosoe has been the Vice President of the Japanese Photographers Association since 1981, and the director of the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts (Kiyosato, Yamanashi) since its opening in 1995. He has also been teaching at Tokyo’s School of Photography since 1969 and College of Photography since 1975.

In 2003, he was awarded The Royal Photographic Society’s Special 150th Anniversary Medal and Honorary Fellowship (HonFRPS) in recognition of a sustained, significant contribution to the art of photography.

In 2010, he has also been awarded the title of Japanese Person of Cultural Merit.

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“To me photography can be simultaneously both a record and a mirror or window of self-expression… the camera is generally assumed to be unable to depict that which is not visible to the eye and yet, the photographer who wields it well can depict what lies unseen in his memory.”

– Eikoh Hosoe

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