Kozo Miyoshi AND Yasuaki Matsumoto
IN CONVERSATION WITH LINDA CONNOR
WITH TRANSLATION PROVIDED BY BETH CARY
Saturday, May 8, 2021 5:00 pm PDT
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ABOUT THE PROGRAM
PhotoAlliance is delighted to welcome Tokyo-based photographers Kozo Miyoshi and Yasuaki Matsumoto for an online lecture and discussion as the final installment of our spring 2021 International Lecture Series. The presentation will take place as a conversation between the two artists and PhotoAlliance Creative Director Linda Connor.
Miyoshi and Matsumoto represent two generations of creative photographers working in Japan whose photographic practices share in common the use of large format, film-based photographic tools and a significant influence of American photographic traditions while also firmly part of the rich history of Japanese photography.
Miyoshi, who lived in Arizona during the 1990s and studied at the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, has stated the importance of Edward Weston and the legacy of American landscape photography in his formation as an artist. Matsumoto, who studied photography at San Francisco Art Institute, uses traditional, analog photographic tools in combination with elements of collage and non-photographic materials to address spiritual and philosophical subjects.
The lecture will be in the format of a conversation, moderated by artist and PhotoAlliance Creative Director Linda Connor, and with translation provided by Beth Cary. Together with the artists, Connor will guide viewers through several decades of each photographer’s work, discuss recent projects and work during the pandemic, and conclude with an open discussion segment engaging the online audience.
About Kozo Miyoshi
Kozo Miyoshi was born in Chiba, Japan in 1947 and graduated from the Department of Photography at Nihon University College of Art in 1971. He has been photographing continuously since the 1970s and started shooting with an 8×10-inch, large-format camera in 1981. In 1991 Miyoshi received a grant to attend the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, and remained in Arizona until returning to Japan in 1996. In 2009 he began using an ultra-large format, 16×20-inch camera which he continues to work with today.
Miyoshi’s work has been exhibited extensively throughout Japan and internationally. His works can be found in numerous institutional collections, including The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; Tokyo International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester; Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia Arizona State Museum, Tucson, USA The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City.
More work available for viewing on his website:
http://www.8x10.jp
www.pgi.ac/en/artists/697
Watch Kozo’s documentary:
STILL IN THE ROAD/KOZO MIYOSHI
About Yasuaki Matsumoto
Yasu Matsumoto was born in Tokyo in 1976. He studied photography at the San Francisco Art Institute with the mentorship of Linda Connor. He currently works primarily with a large format, 8x10-inch, large-format camera to produce gelatin silver and wet plate collodion prints. Matsumoto describes the focus of his work as a crossing of the real and imaginary, the visible and invisible.
Matsumoto’s work has received international acclaim including awards from the Lucie Foundation, the PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris, and the Tokyo International Foto Awards, and has been exhibited internationally, including Pasadena Museum of California Art, Seoul Photo, Yokohama Creative Center, Center of Fine Art Photography, Colorado, and Art Basel Hong Kong.
More work available for viewing on his website:
www.one-big-tree.com
Yasuaki’s new artist book, existence, published by invisibleprint, is available for purchase HERE. We will offer a coupon for the lecture attendees.
existence
by Yasuaki Matsumoto
Published by invisibleprint, 2020.
In Japanese/English.
2021 INTERNATIONAL Lecture Series
For close to two decades, PhotoAlliance has offered wonderful lectures to the Bay Area community, highlighting well-known and celebrated photographers as well as introducing remarkable emerging artists from our community. Unfortunately, the Covid-19 pandemic resulted in the cancellation of most of our 2020 programs. To make a silver lining of this shutdown period we are launching an International Lecture Series for spring 2021. Using the new normal of online programming, each of the artists in our spring series will be “beaming in” from locations throughout the world.
The PhotoAlliance 2021 International Lecture Series is presented in partnership with the San Francisco Art Institute and the San Francisco Artists Alumni.
