Shibuya_246 Tokyo
Modern Japan Photographed with Bronica Zenza
05/03/2012 by 3 Comments
There are several things I love about music in 2012. Forced to listen to it for hours at a time, House has finally begun to make some kind of sense to me, though it alternatively plops its repetitive self into the absurd column just as easily. Which parallels my feelings about Jack White’s Blunderbuss. Maybe [...]
4 Japanese radicalism and the absurd was certainly not only the preserve of the Left. Yukio Mishima was the most famous living Japanese writer in the Fifties and Sixties, even better known than the older Yasunari Kawabata, who ultimately nipped him to the coveted Nobel Prize. But Mishima wore many masks. He was a novelist, [...]
The title of this article is stolen from a concurrently running Exhibition of ancient Japanese masterpieces depicting the Land of the Rising Sun in an infallible way and, what’s more, via these centuries old scrolls, kimono and woodblocks, implies that Japan is still this same country of beauty. Long having rested on their laurels stemming [...]
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[...] of the series Manny Santiago looks at Modern Japan via the Nikon N80 Film Camera. Part I, II, IV, V, VI and VII are viewable [...]
That is a cool shot
It takes one to know one. Thanks mate.