amanaTIGP is pleased to present "Fashion," a solo exhibition of the work of Ikko Narahara, from February 10 to March 11, 2023. This exhibition is the first to feature his vintage fashion prints in nineteen years, since the 2004 retrospective, "Mirror of Space and Time: Synchronicity," in the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum.
The photographs displayed in this exhibition embellished the covers and interior pages of fashion magazines, namely Fujin Gaho and High Fashion, as well as photography magazines such as Nippon Camera. The subjects are almost all garments that Hanae Mori and Takashi Ito designed, modeled by, among others, Hiroko Matsumoto, renowned for having taken part in Paris Fashion Week. Narahara described fashion photography as "cultural criticism," but the images as style guides created to launch new fashions in society vividly mark the glamour of each age. In them we can also see an artistic style in which experimental compositions and techniques are attempted with an energy that seems to be responding to the fluidity of the fabric. Here we can glimpse Narahara's own inquisitive mind as he directs a fresh gaze at fashion photography.
The exhibition consists of eighteen photographs from the 1960s, when magazines were Narahara's primary medium for presenting his fashion work. We hope that you will enjoy this exhibition, which sheds light from new directions on the work of Ikko Narahara.
Photo : Ikko Narahara, "The Horse Crossing on the Sea", 1961, gelatin silver print, 24.9 x 19.9 cm © Narahara Ikko Archives/Courtesy of amanaTIGP
| Event period |
Friday, February 10 to Saturday, March 11 |
|---|---|
| Time | 12:00 ー 19:00 |
| Closed | Sundays, Mondays, and Holidays |
| Venue | amanaTIGP |