As part of a pre-event to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Panasonic Shiodome Museum's opening, the exhibition "Japanese Houses 1955: Yukio Futagawa, the Origin of Architectural Photography" will run from January 12 to March 24, 2013. The exhibition is curated by Sou Fujimoto, the architect behind the sacai Aoyama store. Approximately 70 photographs from the 10-volume photobook "Japanese Houses" (photographs by Yukio Futagawa, text by Teiji Ito, published by Bijutsu Shuppansha), which won the Mainichi Publishing Culture Award in 1959, will be newly printed using the latest digital printing technology and exhibited. A definitive edition of the book, newly edited by Yukio Futagawa himself, will also be published to coincide with the exhibition. Yukio Futagawa began taking photographs after being deeply impressed by Takayama, Gifu Prefecture, during his university days. He has been presenting architectural photographs for 60 years, primarily through his own editorial and publishing company.
Futagawa Yukio has been highly praised both in Japan and overseas for his photographs of famous architecture, including the complete works of Frank Lloyd Wright, but he has always declared himself to be something other than a photographer and has rejected the medium of an exhibition. This time, his first exhibition was realized under the condition that the title be limited to the period "1955, when people lived side by side with nature and their daily lives in a land where private houses were still beautiful."
[Event Information]
Japanese Houses 1955: Yukio Futagawa, the Origin of Architectural Photography
Venue: Panasonic Shiodome Museum
Address: 4th floor, Panasonic Tokyo Shiodome Building, 1-5-1 Higashi-Shinbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo
Dates: January 12th to March 24th, 2013
Time: 10:00 to 18:00 (last entry at 17:30)
Admission: Adults 700 yen / University students 500 yen / Middle and high school students 200 yen / Elementary school students and younger free / 600 yen for those 65 years of age or older with proof of age
Closed: Wednesdays (open on March 20th)
