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Mikiko Hara

is a Japanese photographer.

Biography

Hara was born in Toyama in 1967. She graduated from Keio University 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

<blockquote>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.</blockquote>

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

  • Is as It. Gallery le Deco (Shibuya, Tokyo), 1996.
  • Agnus Dei. Ginza Nikon Salon (Ginza, Tokyo), 1998.
  • Utsuro no seihō (). Shinjuku Konica Plaza (Shinjuku, Tokyo), 2001. The Third Gallery Aya (Osaka), 2001.
  • Hatsugo no shÅ«en (). Guardian Garden (Ginza, Tokyo), July 2004.
  • Hysteric Thirteen publication exhibition. Place M (Shinjuku, Tokyo), August&ndash;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

  • PuraibētorÅ«mu 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&ndash;June 1999.
  • Japan: Keramik und Fotografie: Tradition und Gegenwart. Deichtorhallen (Hamburg), January&ndash;May 2003.
  • Pingyao International Photography Festival (Pingyao, China), 2004.
  • Nichijō kara no tabi (). Shinjuku Epsite (Shinjuku, Tokyo), November&ndash;December 2005.
  • Absolutely Private: Contemporary Photography, vol 4 = . Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography (Ebisu, Tokyo), March&ndash;April 2006.
  • A Private History. Fotografisk Center (Copenhagen), September 2007 &ndash; 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 (Yokohama), December 2009.
  • Shibui: Six Japanese Photographers 1920s&ndash;2000. Stephen Cohen Gallery (Los Angeles), April&ndash;June 2009.
  • In Focus: Tokyo. J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, California), August–December 2014.

Collections

Books

  • Hysteric Thirteen. Tokyo: Hysteric Glamour, 2005.
  • These Are Days. Tokyo: Osiris, 2014. .
  • Change. New York: Gould Collection, 2016. . With a short story by Stephen Dixon, "Change." Edition of 500 copies plus 26 copies with a print.

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