
Joji 'George' HASHIGUCHI
HASHIGUCHI Jôji (transliterated as 'George') is a Japanese photographer and a writer, who started photo-document in the early 1980s with communities of outcasts, gangs and drug dealers in the West and Japan (Oretachi, magazine works), and Berlin both before and after the fall of the Wall (Berlin, Die Mauer, Jiyu, the 2-volume novel Berlin Monogatari, etc.). Thereafter and non-exclusively, starting with Seventeen's Map, Hashiguchi has worked on the vast project of 'understanding Japan and the Japanese' through subjective thematic cuts through the Japanese society (17 years old, fathers, couples, elderly, children, etc.), travel and random encounters, during which were taken photographs and sociological data. Both the contrast between his first and his second set of works (vivid street snaps vs. posed, full-length portraits) and that double scientific and philosophical purpose (as well as the very private insight it provides), place Hashiguchi in a peculiar and very interesting position in the photographic field. As a constant trait, black monochrome overwhelmingly dominates ; as an additional treat, Hashiguchi grants most of his books with a very meaningful and touching afterword that is in itself worth the read.
Further readings: Profile [jp] ; study by Richard Chalfen [en / abstract 1, 2, 3].
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Links to the detailed descriptions:
Liens vers les descriptions détaillées :
Magazine Works, Misc.
Shagaku 3/5SHINOYAMA Kishin / HASHIGUCHI Joji / TAKAHASHI Keiichi (1982) | Nikkor Annual 1999-2000 (2000) |
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