Artist: Rinko Kawauchi (Japan). Untitled (2005). From the series, the eyes, the ears. Chromogenic color print.

PRIMARY MATERIALS FOR November 19

View the photograph: Rinko Kawauchi, Untitled (2005) (From the series, the eyes, the ears)

View the photograph as a high-quality file as published on Kawauchi’s artist website (in the context of the whole series).

View some other work (including more recent work and her video work) by Kawauchi on her artist website.

Check out the amazing Trans Asia Photography (TAP) website (formerly hosted at Hampshire and created by Professor Emerita of Photography at Hampshire, Sandra Matthews) and learn something about the history of photography in Asia.

Back issues of Trans Asia Photography (TAP) include an issue on women/femme photographers (women’s camera work) in Asia.

RESEARCH ACTIVITY (Complete BEFORE you come to class):

Research and curate 5 photographs by Rinko Kawauchi/another Japanese or another woman/femme photographer working in the early 2000s; bring in to share

As part of your curated image collection, write and bring in a short paragraph (approx. 150-200 words) explaining why you chose the photographs you did. Your reasons may be connected with any aspect of the photograph/s.

Intertexts/dialogues:

Toyoko Tokiwa (photographer, active in Japan)

Akiko Ikeda (photographer, active in Japan)

Yuko Tada (photographer, active in Japan)

Emi Fukuyama (photographer, active in Japan)

Hiromi Kakimoto (photographer, active in Japan)

Pauline Vermare (Franco-American photography curator specializing in the history of women photographers in Japan, see especially this interview for more info. about this history)

Expand your Asian geographies by looking at intertexts/dialogues with women photographers from another Asian country (for example, India):

Dayanita Singh (photographer, active in India)

Gauri Gill (photographer, active in India)

Poulomi Basu (photographer, active in India)