TOP Collection
The Resonance of Seeing
Jul. 18－Oct. 6, 2024

Narahara Ikko
from the series 'MARCEL DUCHAMP/LARGE GLASS'
1973 Collection of Tokyo Photographic Art Museum©Narahara Ikko Archives

The Tokyo Photographic Art Museum regularly presents a selection of works chosen from themuseum’s collections of over 37,000 items according to a given theme. In this edition of the exhibition,
we set out to reconsider the act of seeing based on the theme of “the resonance of seeing.”
Every work of art inherently contains a variety of gazes, including those of the artist, the critic, andthe viewer. For example, in the process of making a work, the photographer fixes their gaze on thesubject in a unique manner and frames it. The critic, meanwhile, assesses and evaluates the workby verbalizing their own view of it. And the viewer creates a link between what is depicted in the workand their personal experiences and memories, and sees it in relation to these things.
In this way, the act of looking at a photograph assumes a diverse quality based on the standpointof the viewer, depending on whether they are the creator, the interpreter, the viewer, etc. Thus, theexperience of seeing might be understood as an act of resonating in which historical perspectives,rich imaginings, and individual thoughts – which are not visible on the surface of the image – overlap.
Along with statements that have been made about these works in the past, this exhibition
assembles a collection of works from a wide range of eras and regions. It is our hope that the works
on display will provide you with an opportunity to consider the act of seeing a photograph.

1Exhibiting Artists |Berenice Abbott, Eugène Atget, Anna Atkins, Chen Wei, Scott Hyde, André Kertész, William Klein,Narahara Ikko, Man Ray, Sugiura Kunié, Maurice Tabard, Terada Mayumi, Minor White, Yamazaki
HiroshiLeft: Eugène Atget Former Monestary of the English Benedictine Congregation, 269 Saint-Jaques Street 1905 Collection of Tokyo
Photographic Art Museum
Center: Berenice Abbott Untitled from the series 'Changing New York' c.1930-1940 Collection of Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
Right: Minor White Windowsill Daydreaming, Rochester, New York 1958 Collection of Tokyo Photographic Art Museum Reproducedwith permission of the Minor White Archive, Princeton University Art Museum. © Trustees of Princeton University

Left: André Kertész Underwater Swimmer, Esztergom, Hungary, 1917 1917 Collection of Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
Right: Chen Wei New Station - if on a winter's night 2020 Collection of Tokyo Photographic Art Museum ©Chen Wei, courtesy ofOta Fine Arts

Left:
Scott Hyde Untitled 1970
Collection of Tokyo Photographic Art Museum©Scott Hyde Estate, courtesy Joseph Bellows
Gallery
Right:
Terada Mayumi curtain 010402a 2001
Collection of the Kamakura Gallery2Outline of exhibition｜Dates:

Jul. 18－Oct. 6, 2024

Closed:Mondays (except when Monday falls on a holiday, in which case the museum is open
and closed the following day)

Venue:

3F Exhibition Gallery, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
Yebisu Garden Place, 1-13-3 Mita Meguro-ku Tokyo 153-0062

Open Hours: 10:00–18:00 (Thu. / Fri. 10:00–20:00)*10:00-21:00(Thu. / Fri. between July 18 and August 30)*Final admission 30 minutes before closing.
Admission： Adults ￥700/ College Students￥560 / High School and Junior High SchoolStudents,Over 65￥350*Admission is free for children in elementary school or younger; junior high school
students living or attending schools in the Tokyo metropolitan area; holders ofJapanese disability identification cards (shogaisha techo), along with up to twocaregivers; and holders of the museum’s annual passport.
Organized by: Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum operated by Tokyo
Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture
Supported by: J-WAVE 81.3FM

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