Works of Japan’s 24 Contemporary Photographers

Around 1983, the public circulation of Japanese photography depended heavily on magazines. Works entered discussion as a repeatable unit—title, credit, layout. For readers, photography first appeared as an entry in a page system, not as a fully argued statement delivered by a solo exhibition or a photobook. “24人の眼 (Works of Japan’s 24 Contemporary Photographers)” functions as this kind of directory: it distributes what could be called “contemporary” practice across different social spaces and visual assignments. Its point is not to deliver a single answer, but to map the range.

24人の眼 1983 ╱ 1–8 Pt.1
Shunji Dodo (百々俊二) — Machikado (Street Corner)
Noriko Shibuya (渋谷典子) — Boxer
YA-SU — Street-Corner Trip
Keizo Kitajima (北島敬三) — Punchball Hill
Kiyoshi Suzuki (鈴木清) — Bonsai World
Michio Washio (鷲尾倫夫) — Untitled
Ryu Hanabusa (英 隆) — Pale Middle Ages
Meitoku Ito (伊藤明徳) — First Snow in Nigorigawa