TOKYO PHOTOGRAPHIC RESEARCH(TPR)は、写真家・小山泰介を中心に、広く写真表現に携わるアーティストや研究者からなるアーティスト・コレクティブです。2018年、オリンピックを契機とした大規模再開発によって大きく変貌していく東京を、写真や映像によって記録/表現/アーカイブしていくために発足しました。「都市の多角的なリサーチ」や「現代写真の実践的な探求」、「写真文化の発展的な研究」などを主なミッションとして、未だ見ぬ都市と社会と人々の姿を可視化し、見出されたヴィジョンを未来へ受け継ぐことを目的としています。
How has photography been subject to experimentation? Camera Systems, Self-Portraits, Landscape Interventions, Image as Object... Approaching its bicentenary, the history of photography is surveyed through its experimental nature in this new 'book of photography', which features 611 artworks across 14 categories and introduces 130 photobooks.
Compiled over two years of research by TOKYO PHOTOGRAPHIC RESEARCH, this publication presents a comprehensive index of works by approximately 500 artists. Furthermore, it includes interviews with six artists and researchers, alongside previously untranslated texts by Duncan Wooldridge, Walead Beshty, and Wolfgang Tillmans.
Essays and Dialogues: Taisuke Koyama, Jin Qiuyu, Hana Yamamoto × Shota Tsukiyama Interviews: Masafumi Fukagawa, Hayahisa Tomiyasu, Mederu Kiritori, Akiko Otake, Ivan Vartanian, Duncan Wooldridge Translated Essays: Duncan Wooldridge, Photography as Experiment Walead Beshty, The Commons in the Age of Technical Reproducibility Wolfgang Tillmans, On Paper (Titles omitted, listed in order of appearance)
TOKYO PHOTOGRAPHIC RESEARCH (TPR) is an artist collective led by photographer Taisuke Koyama, comprising artists and researchers broadly engaged in photographic expression. Founded in 2018, it was established to record, express, and archive through photography and moving images the rapidly transforming city of Tokyo, prompted by the large-scale redevelopments ahead of the Olympics. With primary missions including 'multifaceted urban research', 'practical exploration of contemporary photography', and 'progressive study of photographic culture', it aims to visualise unseen aspects of the city, society, and its people, passing these discovered visions on to the future.
- Pages: 198 Size: 128 x 182 mm Softcover Black and white