10×10 Reading Room (Day 8): Christopher Phillips + Deirdre Donohue / International Center of Photography

10×10 Japanese Photobooks

As part of 10×10 Japanese Photobooks, a pop-up reading room of 100 Japanese photobooks at the ICP-Bard MFA Studios from September 28-30, 2012 and an online resource space at Photo(o)lia, Monsters & Madonnas features one 10×10 reading room specialist per day. Reading room and online contributors have each been asked to suggest 10 Japanese photobooks for a total of 100 photobooks in the reading room and an additional 100 books online: 10×10 (x2). Join the discussion on 10×10 Japanese photobooks here.

10×10 Reading Room
Day #8. Christopher Phillips + Deirdre Donohue / International Center of Photography

About Christopher Phillips + Deirdre Donohue‘s Selection for the 10×10 Reading Room:
The impulse behind our selection of books is simply to demonstrate the different ways that non-Japanese publishers are currently presenting the work of Japanese photographers to a worldwide audience.

Christopher Phillips + Deirdre Donohue‘s 10×10 Reading Room Selection:

Yuichi Hibi, 127: Portraits 1994- 1995 (New York: Gallery 339, 2012)
Kunie Sugiura, Artists and Scientists (Portland, OR: Nazraeli Press, 2007)
Ryuji Miyamoto, Ryuji Miyamoto (Gottingen, Germany: Steidl 2007)
Hiroh Kikai, Asakusa Portraits (New York: ICP / Steidl, 2008)
Miyako Ishiuchi, Sweet Home Yokusuka (New York: PPP Editions, 2010)
Daido Moriyama, ‘71-NY (New York: Roth Horowitz, 2002)
Yasumasa Morimura, Daughter of Art History (New York: Aperture, 2005)
Naoya Hatakeyama, Atmos (Portland, OR: Nazraeli Press, 2004)
Miwa Yanagi, White Casket (Tucson, AZ: Nazraeli Press, 2004)
Yukichi Watabe, A Criminal Investigation: From the Wilson Centre of Photography (Paris: Xavier Barral, 2011)

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Christopher Phillips has been a curator at the International Center of Photography in New York City since 2000. He has organized such exhibitions as “The Rise of the Picture Press” (2002),”Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China” (2004),  “Heavy Light: Recent Photography and Video from Japan” (2008), and “Wang Qingsong: When Worlds Collide” (2011). His publications include Photography in the Modern Era: European Documents and Critical Writings, 1913-1940 (1989). He is currently collaborating with Martin Parr, Gu Zheng, Stephanie Tung, and Ruben Lundgren on a history of the photobook in China, which will be published by Aperture.
Website: http://www.icp.org/museum

Deirdre Donohue is the Stephanie Shuman Librarian of the International Center of Photography (ICP), and an artist, with three decades of experience working in museums, and a decade of teaching, lately at Pratt Institute’s School of Information and Library Science, ICP General Studies, and ICP-Bard MFA.
Website: http://www.icp.org/research-center/library

To see these books in person, please visit the 10×10 Japanese Photobooks Reading Room
September 28-30,  3 to 9pm
Opening: Friday, September 28 from 7-9pm

ICP Bard MFA Studio
24-20 Jackson Avenue, 3rd Floor, Long Island City
(Runs concurrently with the New York Art Book Fair and is located across the street from MoMA PS1.)

Click here for a complete list of all 10 Reading Room Specialists

The Photo(o)lia blog features daily selections from 10×10 Online.
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