Early 20th Century in EU

 Antiques are always throwing us sentimental, nostalgic, bitter and sweet memories, indeed. Even it's not what you know well or a place where you've never been to before or you have.
At Ebisu, Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography is held an exhibition "Street Life -Chronicles of Europe by Seven Photographers-". It may send you a time-trip to early 20th century in EU. And it's really good trip though, especially to see usual lifes. Photographers and some pieces are famous then you may figure out why those are so.

THOMSON John
BRANDT Bill
SANDER August
ANNAN Thomas
ZILLE Heinrich
Brassai
ATGET Jean Eugene Auguste

Exhibition Info : http://syabi.com/e/contents/exhibition/index-1449.html

Still Crazy

 After 311, one of the biggest earthquake hit in history, Japan got a lot of problems one after another. And these problems seem never solved. Especially, nuclear plants and radiation threats. However, "LIFE GOSE ON" anyway and people get used any pain somehow.

 A photographer, Taishi Hirokawa, has been taking photos of "nuclear plants" in Japan as the landscapes. Then, he published a book called "Still Crazy - nuclear power plants as seen in Japanese landscapes" in 1994.
Actually, building nuclear plant is a huge business for Japan as the top bland.
As he said, if it's really Japanese landscapes, we had to think it much more before it's too late to fix it. But, I think we still have time to do it and change it. I just reckon it at this time around the annual Japanese Remembrance Day and Hiroshima-Nagasaki.




Taishi Hirokawa's Official site : HIROKAWA810.COM
"Still Crazy - nuclear power plants as seen in Japanese landscapes" on Amazon.com