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Takashi Homma
REVOLUTION, 2013
Archival pigment print
24 x 60 in ( 61 x 152.4 cm )TAKASHI HOMMAREVOLUTION No.9 / Camera Obscura Studies
November 11, 2023 - January 11, 2024
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TAKASHI HOMMAREVOLUTION No.9 / Camera Obscura Studies
November 11, 2023 - January 11, 2024Nonaka-Hill is pleased to present TAKASHI HOMMA: REVOLUTION No.9 / Camera Obscura Studies , the Japanese artist’s second solo

exhibition with the gallery. The artist will stage a musical performance at the opening on November 11th, 6 – 8pm. The exhibition is on view
through January 11, 2024. The gallery will be closed for the holidays from December 23rd, reopening on January 3rd, 2024.

Working mostly in color photographic series and photo-books since the mid-1990s, Takashi Homma’s documentary images almost always
also feel poetic. The artist has recorded such diverse subjects as impassive youth in the streets, freshly plucked mushroom specimen,
undulating ocean waves, iconic architecture, deer blood tracks in snowy forests, amongst many others.

Over the past several years, Takashi Homma's work has pivoted to include epiphenomenal visages produced by camera obscura rendering
black and white photography and surprising color images. Working in unseen rooms of unseen buildings in cities around the world, the artist
blacks out windows and eliminates light leaks, leaving only a small “pinhole” through which outside light steams in, casting the building’s

vista onto receptive photosensitive film as an upside down and inverted image. Drawn to both iconic and ubiquitous urban sites, Homma
uses “city as a device to photograph itself”. As such, chance-operated improvisation embeds the visual textures in The Narcissistic City
series with a sense of timelessness and mystery.

Also featured in the exhibition are selected works from Homma’s "Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji" series based on the famed ukiyo-e artist

Katsushika Hokusai's "Fugaku Sanjurokkei (Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji)" applying the same dark room to metaprocess whilecircumnavigating the world heritage site.

As discussed by Vilém Flusser, the camera obscura metaphor was fated to give way to a new construct, that of negative/positive, andpossibly the uprighted reality and the inverted truth. This construct is the paradoxical logic of the photographic camera: its cultural weightnotably increased in the form of photographic images, but the device itself descended into the obscurity of the 'blackbox.'. Homma may beemploying this metaphor to the indexical trace and cultural shift that is still hidden within the apparatus.

With the exhibition title "Revolution 9", Homma unites his “Narcisstic City” and "Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji" as an homage to the famoussong of the same name by The Beatles, who recorded the track as a collage based on a myriad of sound sources and the cadence ofrepetition.

Born in Tokyo in 1962, Takashi Homma began his professional career in 1984, working as an inhouse photographer for a Tokyo advertising

agency. In the early 1990s, Homma worked in London as a photographer for i-D magazine, world renowned for its keen and enduring eye
on youth culture and the diversity of human expression, often captured through "street photography". Homma returned to Japan and, in thefollowing years, he photographed Japan as it really exists, chronicled in his 1998 artist book, Tokyo Suburbia (Korinsha Press, Tokyo), forwhich he was awarded the prestigious Kimura Ihei Commemorative Photography Award in 1999. A cursory review of the spectrum ofphotography from Japan might give the impression that two polar positions have dominated the nation's photographic discourse: aperceived mandate to use the camera's inherent capability to document objective truth versus a more expressive exploration of thephotographic medium's potential. Homma's practice offers a middle ground, between a documentary and expression, a poetic view of ourworld as it is. Homma has produced an extraordinary range of photo books, an artform wherein he has achieved great distinction.

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Takashi Homma
REVOLUTION NO.9 / Camera Obscura Studies
November 11, 2023 – January 11, 2024
WEST GALLERY (clockwise from left)
1

mount FUJI 19/36, 2020Lambda print
22 x 17 3/8 in
56 x 44.2 cm
Edition of 5, 2AP

8mount FUJI 14/36, 2018
Lambda print
17 3/8 x 22 in
44.2 x 56 cm
Edition of 5, 2AP

2mount FUJI 21/36, 2021
Lambda print
17 3/8 x 26 5/8 in
44.2 x 67.5 cm
Edition of 5, 2AP

9mount FUJI 20/36, 2021
Lambda print
17 3/8 x 41 1/4 in
44.2 x 104.7 cm
Edition of 5, 2AP3

mount FUJI 18/36, 2019
Lambda print
22 x 17 3/8 in
56 x 44.2 cm
Edition of 5, 2AP

10mount FUJI 15/36, 2018
Lambda print
17 3/8 x 22 in
44.2 x 56 cm
Edition of 5, 2AP

4mount FUJI 16/36, 2018
Lambda print
17 3/8 x 54 3/4 in
44.2 x 139.2 cm
Edition of 5, 2AP

11mount FUJI 9/36, 2016
Lambda print
39 3/8 x 39 3/8 in
100 x 100 cm
Edition of 5, 2AP

5mount FUJI 6/36, 2017
Lambda print
17 3/8 x 22 in
44.2 x 56 cm
Edition of 5, 2AP

12mount FUJI 13/36, 2017
Lambda print
22 x 17 3/8 in56 x 44.2 cm
Edition of 5, 2AP

6mount FUJI 22/36, 2023
Lambda print
22 x 17 3/8 in
56 x 44.2 cm
Edition of 5, 2AP

7mount FUJI 23/36, 2023
Lambda print
22 x 17 3/8 in
56 x 44.2 cm
Edition of 5, 2AP

CENTRAL GALLERY (clockwise from left)
13New York, 2013
Lambda print
43 3/4 x 34 3/4 in
111 x 88.4 cm
Edition of 5, 2AP

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14No.9, 2015
Lambda print
23 3/8 x 16 1/2 in
59.4 x 42 cm
Edition of 5, 2AP2211, 2014
Lambda print
23 3/8 x 16 1/2 in
59.4 x 42 cm
Edition of 5, 2AP

15REVOLUTION, 2013
Lambda print
24 x 60 in
61 x 152.4 cm
Edition of 5, 2AP

23

Diamond Head, Hawaii, 2014
Lambda print
22 x 46 7/8 in
56 x 119 cm
Edition of 5, 2AP

16New York, 2013
Lambda print
36 1/4 x 115 1/4 in
92 x 292.8 cm
Edition of 3, 2AP

24sick of good bys for RobertFrank, Tokyo, 2013
Lambda print
23 3/8 x 16 1/2 in
59.4 x 42 cm
Edition of 5, 2AP

25

mount FUJI 5/36, 2017
Lambda print
17 3/8 x 22 in
44.2 x 56 cm
Edition of 5, 2AP

EAST GALLERY (clockwise from left)
17

abstract 1, 2014
Lambda print
67 1/4 x 47 1/4 in
170.7 x 120 cm
Edition of 3, 2AP

18New York, 2015
Lambda print
81 5/8 x 28 5/8 in
207.3 x 72.8 cm
Edition of 3, 2AP

19

Hollywood, Los Angeles, 2015
Lambda print
36 1/4 x 115 1/4 in
92 x 292.8 cm
Edition of 3, 2AP

20sick of good bys, 2013
Lambda print
23 3/8 x 33 in
59.4 x 83.9 cm
Edition of 3, 2AP

21

The Black Sun 1, 2014
Lambda print
23 1/4 x 18 1/2 in
59.2 x 47 cm
Edition of 5, 2APREAR GALLERY EAST (clockwise from left)
26

GODZILLA, 2016
Lambda print
40 1/2 x 57 3/8 in
103 x 145.6 cm
Edition of 5, 2AP

27

Duomo, Milan, 2017
Lambda print
39 3/8 x 55 5/8 in
100 x 141.4 cm

REAR GALLERY WEST
28

mount FUJI 17/36, 2019
Lambda print
17 3/8 x 27 7/8 in
44.2 x 70.7 cm
Edition of 5, 2AP

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Takashi Homma

Biography

In 1999, he received the 24th Kimura Ihei Award for Photography for his photo book“Tokyo Suburbia” (Korinsha Publishing Co., Ltd.). From 2011 to 2012, he held a solo

exhibition, “New Documentary,” at three different museums in Japan. He is the authorof “Fun Photography: A Photography Classroom for Good Children” and recent

collections of his work include THE NARCISSISTIC CITY (MACK) and TRAILS (MACK).
He has also published “Symphony mushrooms from the forest” (Case Publishing) and“Looking Through Le Corbusier Windows” (Walther König, CCA, Window Institute) in
2019. Currently a visiting professor at Tokyo Zokei University

1962 Born in Tokyo, Japan1999 Received 24th Kimura Ihei Commemorative Photography Award for the photobook,Tokyo Suburbia.
Lives and works in Tokyo, Japan

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2023 TAKASHI HOMMA: REVOLUTION No.9 / Camera Obscura Studies, Nonaka-Hill, Los Angeles
Revolution 9: Homma Takashi, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo

2021 mushroom from the forest, Nonaka-Hill, Los Angeles

2020 Eye Camera Window: Takashi Homma on Le Corbusier, CCA, Montreal

Takashi Homma/Symphony – mushrooms from the forest, POST, Tokyo

2019 Trails of Takashi Homma, Pon Ding & moom bookshop, Taipei
Looking through – Le Corbusier windows, TARO NASU, Tokyo

2018 Fugaku 11/36 –Thirty six views of mount fuji - , TARO NASU, Tokyo
Mountain, CIFAKA, Okayama

2017 NEW WAVES, POST, TokyoTWENTYSIX GASOLINE STATIONS / ROYAL ROAD TEST / BABYCA
KES, POST, Tokyo

La città narcisista. Milano e altre storie, VIASATERNA, Milan

2016 Various cameraobscura studies - inprogress, TARO NASU, Tokyo

Mitsukoshi Wrapping Paper, Marugame Genichiro Inokuma Museum of Contemporary
Art, Kagawa

VARIOUS SHAPED HOSES AND SNAKE, POST, Tokyo

2015 Chandigarh, CoSTUME NATIONAL, TokyoSeeing Itself, Dazaifu Tenmangu Art Program vol.9 Dazaifu Tenmangu, Fukuoka

Camera obscura studies, Tokyo International photograph fair ART FACTORY, Tokyo

2014 NINE SWIMMING POOLS AND A BROKEN IPHONE, POST, TokyoTOWARDS THE CITY - camera obscura study - , TARO NASU, Tokyo

2013 New Waves, Longhouse Projects, New York

Kenzo Tange Exhibition From Setouchi to the World, Kagawa prefecture Museum, Kagawa
Pinhole Revolution / Architecture, TARO NASU, Tokyo

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Selected Solo Exhibitions

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2012 mushrooms from the forest 2011, Blind Gallery, Tokyo
MORE Mushroom, The Cave, Tokyo

2012 Homma Takashi New Documentary, Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum ofContemporary Art, Kagawa

New Waves, Gallery 360°, Tokyo

Hokuo Kenchiku Toka [Nordic Architecture etc.], Bo Concept, Tokyo

2011 Homma Takashi New Documentary, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art Kanazawa,Kanazawa Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, TokyoIN OUR NATURE, Mitsubishi Estate Artium, Fukuoka

2010 Vedove/Widows, Antico Castello sul Mare, Rapallo, Italy (Rapallo Fotografia
Contemporanea, 4a edizione)

New Waves 2010, 1223 Gendaikaiga—Contemporary Painting Museum, TokyoM, Gallery 360°, Tokyo

2009 Trails, Gallery 360°, Tokyo

2008 I don’t Go to Grandes Jorasses, limArt, TokyoTokyo, Gallery 360°, Tokyo

Mountains “Seeing Itself,” Display By Arts&Science, Tokyo

2007 New Waves, Gallery 360°, Tokyo

New Waves, Logos Gallery, Tokyo

Tokyo/Reykjavik, 101 Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland

Architectural Landscapes, Gallery White Room Tokyo, Tokyo

2006 Tokyo and My Daughter, Galerie Claudia Delank, Cologne, Germany
2005 New Waves 2005, Gallery 360°, Tokyo

2004 Kiwamete yoi fukei [Extremely Good Landscapes], NADiff, Tokyo
Short Hope, Gallery 360°, Tokyo

2003 Waves, Gallery 360°, Tokyo
New Waves, A.P.C., Tokyo

2002 Tokyo Children, Gallery 360°, Tokyo

2000 Tokyo Suburbia, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland

1999 Takashi Homma: Tokyo Suburbia, Minolta Photo Space, Tokyo; Minolta Photo Space inOsaka, Nagoya, Fukuoka, Hiroshima, Sendai

Tokyo Suburbia, Parco Gallery, Nagoya, Japan

Takashi Homma Exhibition ’99, Gallery The Deep, Tokyo

1998 Hyper Ballad: Icelandic Suburban Landscapes, Gallery 360°, Tokyo
Tokyo Suburbia, Parco Gallery, Tokyo

1995 Babyland, Parco Gallery, TokyoTokyo Teens, Homma Takashi Photo Office, Tokyo

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Selected group Exhibitions

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2020 The Window: A Journey of Art and Architecture through Windows, Marugame
Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa

2019 The Window: A Journey of Art and Architecture through Windows, The National Museum ofModern Art, Tokyo Present Day and in Times Past - Multiple Perspectives, Museum ofContemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo

2018 Casino Palermo, VIASATERNA, Milan

Japan in Architecture: Genealogies of Its Transformation, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
Le Corbusier / Chandigarh -Creation and Context-, Arch-DepoTokyo

A gaze into architecture :Phases of Contemporary Photography and Architecture,Arch-Depot, Tokyo

2017 TOP Collection: Scrolling Through Heisei Part1 : In the Here and Now, Tokyo PhotographicArt Museum2016 20 Year Anniversary TOP Collection: Tokyo Tokyo and TOKYO, Tokyo Photographic Art
Museum, Tokyo

Windowology 10th Anniversary Exhibition: The World Through the Window, Spiral Garden, Tokyo

2015 Tokyo Art Meeting VI "TOKYO" -Sensing the Cultural Magma of the Metropolis, Museum ofContemporary Art Tokyo

In the Wake : Japanese Photographers Respond to 3-11, Boston Museum of Fine Art, Boston

2014 The Fab Mind: Hints of the Future in a Shifting World, 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT , Tokyo

You reach out – right now – for something : Questioning the Concept of Fashion, Marugame
Genichiro-Inokuma Museum, Kagawa

You reach out – right now – for something : Questioning the Concept of Fashion, Art Tower
Mito Contemporary Art Gallery, Ibaraki

2013 gesture, form, technique III, TARO NASU, Tokyo
Ryosen, POST, Tokyo

Memories of town, Yokosuka Museum of Art, Kanagawa

2012 Double Vision: Contemporary Art From Japan, Moscou Museum of Modern Art,Moscou/Haifa Museum of Art, Israel

The Month of Photography 2012, FUJIFILM PHOTO SALON, Tokyo

2010 Asia Spectrum at Daegu Photo Biennale 2010, Daegu Culture and Arts Center, Daegu, Korea
2009 Mountains “A Way of Seeing,” Gallery Trax, Hokuto, Japan

2007 Gazing at the Contemporary World: Japanese Photography from the 1970s to the Present.

(traveling exhibition to 22 cities in 12 countries including Lithuania, Germany, Egypt, Latvia,Indonesia, Australia.)

2006 Stories, Histories: Set 3 from the Collection of the Fotomuseum Winterthur, Fotomuseum
Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland

2005

36 Photographers of the Kimura Ihei Award, Kawasaki City Museum, Kawasaki

2003 Japan—Contemporary Ceramics and Photography—Tradition and Presence,
Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany

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Selected group Exhibitions

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2003 The History of Japanese Photography, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; The
Cleveland Museum of Art, OH

Everyday Contemporary Art from Japan, China, Korea, and Thailand, Kunstforeningen,
Copenhagen, Denmark

2001 JAM: Tokyo-London, Barbican Art Gallery, London; Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo (2002).
Landscapes, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo

2000 MOT Annual 2000: Land/mind/body-scapes in the Age of Cold Burn, Museum ofContemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo

1999 TOKYO 60/90 17 Contemporary Photographers, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum ofPhotography, Tokyo

Retrospective: The Kimura Ihei Memorial Photography Award 1975-1999, Kawasaki CityMuseum, Kawasaki, Japan

1997 Cities on the Move: Contemporary Asian Art on the Turn of the 21st Century, Secession,
Vienna; Hayward Gallery, London and other venues until 2000.

1996 Baby Generation, Parco Part III Square 7, Tokyo

Major Publications

Babyland, Little More, Tokyo, 1995

Baby Generation, Little More, Tokyo, 1996 (with other authors)
Tokyo Teens, Little More, Tokyo, 1996

Hyper Ballad: Icelandic Suburban Landscapes, Switch Publishing, Tokyo, 1997
Tokyo Suburbia, Korinsha Press, Kyoto, 1998
Tokyo Children, Little More, Tokyo, 2001
New Waves, A.P.C., Tokyo, 2003

New Waves, Magazine House, Tokyo, 2003 (relax magazine special edition)
Kiwamete yoi fukei [Extremely Good Landscapes], Little More, Tokyo, 2004

In-between 1: Takashi Homma: Denmark, Poland, EU-Japan Fest Japan Committee, Tokyo, 2005
Tokyo and My Daughter, Nieves, Zurich, 2006
New Waves, Parco Publishing, Tokyo, 2007

Architectural Landscapes, Gallery White Room Tokyo, Tokyo, 2007
Takashi Homma: Tokyo, Aperture Foundation, New York, 2008

Mountains “Seeing Itself” (between the books 00), Between the Books, Tokyo, 2008
Trails, Match and Company, Tokyo, 2009

Tanoshii shashin [Fun Photography], Heibonsha, Tokyo, 2009 (essays on photography)
First, jay comes., Hassla Books, New York, 2009
R: 1994-2009, Zine’s Mate, Tokyo, 2009

35 Years Later, The Thunderstorm Press, Tokyo, 2009

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Major Publications

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Nursery, Nieves, Zurich, 2010
M, Gallery 360°, Tokyo, 2010

IN OUR NATURE, SUPER LABO, 2011

Takashi Homma New Documentary, Asahishinbunsha, 2011 (exhibition catalog)
Mushrooms from the Forest, blind gallery, 2012

Tanoshii shashin 2Portrait [Fun Photography], Heibonsha, Tokyo, 2012 (essays on photography)
New Waves 2000-2013 , 1223 Gendaikaiga, Tokyo, 2013
New Documentary, SUPER LABO, Tokyo, 2014

Tanoshii shashin 3 [Fun Photography]Workshop, Heibonsha, Tokyo, (essays on photography), 2014

THE NARCISSISTIC CITY , MACK BOOKS, London, 2016Homma takashi Renovation: I've tried it! Introduction to Video Literacy, Shinchosha, Tokyo, 2017
TRAILS, MACK BOOKS, London, 2019

Symphony - mushrooms from the forest, Case Publishing, Tokyo, 2019

Looking Through: Le Corbusier Windows, Window Research Institute, CCA, Walther König, 2019www.nonaka-hill.com