Hisae Imai | Hisae Imai, Masako Toda | Aka Aka 2022

Hisae Imai | Hisae Imai, Masako Toda | Aka Aka 2022"Hisae Imai was an unconventional photographer. With the encouragement of a friend of her father Yasumichi, a professional photographer who ran the studio at the Matsuya Ginza department store, she made a brilliant debut in 1956 . This first solo exhibition, Daydreams, attracted tremendous attention even though at the time she had no real intention to make a career of photography. With this exhibition as a starting point, she continued to pursue her

It was not so much Daido Moriyama’s idea of “scratching” something

I was obsessed with making the best complex pictures that I could of people hanging out in neighborhoods

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I talked to her and she said that this was her family business

children play in circles and lovers hold hands

in this way documenting her own reality

shaking up the Japanese photographic scene in the 1960s

luminous tones that contrasted with the reportage of the time

The common sights of children's everyday life encapsulate the sense of their home

and a portrait studio photographer

grandparents

Deluxe collection of kinbaku photographs by Takashi Yamaguchi staged by master Oniroku Dan