{"id":3187,"date":"2026-06-26T19:46:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T10:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.live-art-books.jp\/lag\/?p=3187"},"modified":"2026-06-26T19:46:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T10:46:22","slug":"eikoyamazawa_en","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.live-art-books.jp\/lag\/exhibition\/en\/eikoyamazawa_en\/","title":{"rendered":"YAMAZAWA Eiko \u201cWhat I Am Doing\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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UPCOMING EXHIBITION<\/p>\n

YAMAZAWA Eiko \u201cWhat I Am Doing\u201d <\/h1>\n

Friday, July 3 \u2013 Saturday, July 25, 2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00a9 YAMAZAWA Eiko, Courtesy of The Third Gallery Aya<\/p>\n

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YAMAZAWA Eiko \u201cWhat I Am Doing\u201d
\nFriday, July 3 \u2013 Saturday, July 25, 2026
\n13:00\u201319:00
\n*Closed on Sundays, Mondays and Holidays.
\nLAG (LIVE ART GALLERY)\/ Daiwa Jingumae Bldg. 1F, 2-4-11 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0001
\nCooperation\uff1a The Third Gallery Aya, Bunkamura\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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LAG is pleased to present What I Am Doing, an exhibition by YAMAZAWA Eiko, on view from July 3 through July 25, 2026.<\/p>\n

This exhibition is presented as a partner program of I’m So Happy You Are Here: Japanese Women Photographers from the 1950s to Now, organized by The Bunkamura Museum of Art and held at Hikarie Hall. In conjunction with the exhibition\u2019s reexamination of the pioneering practices and achievements of women photographers in Japan, LAG focuses on YAMAZAWA Eiko, one of the key figures featured in the exhibition.<\/p>\n

YAMAZAWA Eiko (1899\u20131995) is widely regarded as one of the pioneering women photographers in Japan. After studying in the United States in the 1920s, she returned to Japan and established a photography studio in Osaka. While building a distinguished career in portraiture and commercial photography, she continued throughout her life to explore the possibilities of photographic expression.<\/p>\n

Active from the prewar through the postwar period, YAMAZAWA is recognized as one of the few women photographers who played a significant role in the development of modern Japanese photography. Her practice extended beyond portrait and commercial work, encompassing a sustained engagement with modernist photography and abstraction. In recent years, her pioneering achievements have received renewed attention.<\/p>\n

This exhibition presents What I Am Doing, one of YAMAZAWA\u2019s major late-career series. In these works, she experimentally explores relationships between color, form, light, and shadow through everyday objects and photographic materials. Grounded in the perspective and experience she cultivated over decades as a photographer, the series reveals the enduring curiosity and spirit of inquiry that sustained her artistic practice throughout her life.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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PROFILE<\/h2>\n

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\nYAMAZAWA Eiko <\/b><\/p>\n

YAMAZAWA Eiko, born in 1899 (-1995) in Osaka and is regarded as the pioneering female photographer in Japan. She first studied Japanese-style painting, then decided to go to the US to study painting further. She arrived on the West Coast in 1926 and worked as an assistant to the photographer Consuelo Kanaga (1894\u20131978) while studying painting at California School of Fine Arts. After eagerly learning photographic techniques and widening her knowledge, Yamazawa returned to Japan in 1929. In 1931, she opened her own photo studio. It was successful throughout her career, with the exception of the World War II. After a long career doing commercial work such as portraits, she abandoned commercial photography entirely, closing her studio and becoming involved in abstract art in the 1960s. In the 1980s she produced her most important series, titled What I\u2019m doing, which was what we would totday call \u201cconstructed photography\u201d. A large-scale retrospective exhibition of her work was held at Otani Memorial Art Museum, Nishinomiya City and Tokyo Photographic Art Museum in 2018.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Related Exhibition<\/h2>\n

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\u201cI’m So Happy You Are Here: Japanese Women Photographers from the 1950s to Now\u201d<\/h3>\n

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Saturday, July 4 \u2013 Wednesday, August 26, 2026 10:00\u201319:00 (Last Admission: 18:30) *No closing day.
\nHikarie Hall (Shibuya Hikarie 9th Fl.) \/ 2-21-1, Shibuya, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
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Organizer\uff5cThe Bunkamura Museum of Art
\nCurator\uff5cTakeuchi Mariko, Pauline Vermare, Lesley A. Martin
\nMedia partner\uff5cJ-WAVE
\nProduced by\uff5cAperture
\nCoordination by\uff5cCONTACT
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Participating artist\uff1a
\nISHIUCHI Miyako \uff0f ISHIKAWA Mao \uff0f IMAI Hisae \uff0f IWANE Ai \uff0f USHIODA Tokuko \uff0f OKANOUE Toshiko \uff0f OKABE Momo \uff0f ONODERA Yuki \uff0f KATAYAMA Mari \uff0f KAWAUCHI Rinko \uff0f KOMATSU Hiroko \uff0f KON Michiko \uff0f SAWADA Tomoko \uff0f SHIGA Lieko \uff0f SUGIURA Kuni\u00e9 \uff0f TAWADA Yuki \uff0f TOKIWA Toyoko \uff0f NAGASHIMA Yurie \uff0f NARAHASHI Asako \uff0f NISHI-MURA Tamiko \uff0f NINAGAWA Mika \uff0f NOGUCHI Rika \uff0f NOMURA Sakiko \uff0f HARA Mikiko \uff0f HIROMIX \uff0f FUJIOKA Aya \uff0f YANAGI Miwa \uff0f YAMAZAWA Eiko \uff0f YONEDA Tomoko \uff0f WATANABE Hitomi \uff0f SHIMA Ryu \uff08\u203b Special exhibit \uff09
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Admission (tax included)
\nAdults\uff5c2,200 yen
\nUnder 30 years old including college students\uff5c1,500 yen
\nStudents\uff08Elementary to high School\uff09\uff5c1,000yen
\n*Free for preschoolers.
\n*For under 30 years old (born after April 2, 1995) tickets, please present your student ID or health insurance card or driver\u2019s license upon entry.
\n*For student tickets, please present your student ID upon entry. (Excluding elementary school students)
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Web\uff1ahttps:\/\/www.bunkamura.co.jp\/museum\/exhibition\/26_kiseki\/<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\uff3bJP\uff3d UPCOMING EXHIBITION YAMAZAWA Eiko \u201cWhat I Am Doing\u201d Friday, July 3 \u2013 Saturday, July 25, 2026 \u00a9 YAMAZAWA Eiko, Courtesy of The Third Gallery Aya YAMAZAWA Eiko \u201cWhat I Am Doing\u201d Friday, July 3 \u2013 Saturday, July 25, 2026 13:00\u201319:00 *Closed on Sundays, Mondays and Holidays. LAG (LIVE ART GALLERY)\/ Daiwa Jingumae Bldg. 1F, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3185,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.live-art-books.jp\/lag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3187"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.live-art-books.jp\/lag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.live-art-books.jp\/lag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.live-art-books.jp\/lag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.live-art-books.jp\/lag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3187"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.live-art-books.jp\/lag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3195,"href":"https:\/\/www.live-art-books.jp\/lag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3187\/revisions\/3195"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.live-art-books.jp\/lag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.live-art-books.jp\/lag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.live-art-books.jp\/lag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.live-art-books.jp\/lag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}