战前的摄影界现实主义摄影的先驱者,他将照相机称之为"我的生命",并将其聚焦于他的目之所及。安井仲治尝试着不同的表现风格以及可能的技巧,包括30年代的染料印制,抓拍,新现实主义,结构主义,新闻报道,中途曝光,超现实主义乃至抽象的风格。安井仲治从日常生活的碎片中艺术地提炼出具有力量的象征性符号,他的作品曾影响了很多日本战后的摄影大师。日本纪实摄影大师土门拳将其誉为"举世无双的先锋"。
珂罗版的制作工艺可大致分为四道工序:修版、晒版、显影、印刷。在磨砂玻璃上,涂上一层薄的硅酸钠为基底,再涂明胶和重铬酸盐,干燥后形成感光膜,和接触曝光,在光照下,感光膜产生不同的硬化反映,制成印版。再通过采用水墨相斥的着墨原理用无网点印刷的方式,进行印刷。
本次我们有幸请到日本便利堂珂罗版学院经验丰富的导师从京都专程来到北京三影堂,在12月14日、15日两天为大家讲授珂罗版工艺流程和艺术作品收藏价值,如果想要亲自体验珂罗版的制作过程,就来参加便利堂珂罗版体验工坊吧!
1960年生于京都的山本修用珂罗版技术制作过珍贵的文化财产的复制品,例如正仓院文书,伊藤若冲的『动植彩絵』以及蒙古袭来絵词等。近年来,他一直致力于制作摄影作品的彩色珂罗版印刷,及研究传承给下一代的珂罗版印刷技术。山本通过在大学的演讲和摄影节等的体验课程来促进一般大众对珂罗版的认识。
山本修:"我在十八岁时第一次认识珂罗版。高中三年级的时候,我的老师问我想不想成为便利堂的印刷工匠。四十年来,每天我都经过反复试验,为了制作出自己能够满足的作品,花了很多岁月。作为珂罗版学校的教师,我会致力将我多年来学习到的珂罗版印刷技术和知识,以新鲜的感觉轻松地传达给你们,希望可以跟你们一起享受这个体验与过程!"
1887年创业于京都的便利堂,于1905年开始专门研究珂罗版高级印刷工艺,把传统的职人技术保存发展至今,已制作和复制了2,500项以上的日本国宝级艺术品。作为世界上最后一处彩色珂罗版印刷工艺的公司,京都便利堂向现代的艺术家提供跟印刷工艺大师合作的机会,共同制作艺术作品和作品集,致力让这种传统工艺继续发展下去。
Japanese Photography and the Collotype Exhibition
Co-organiser: Three Shadows Photography Art Centre & Benrido
Opening: Dec 14, 2019, 14:00
Duration: Dec 14, 2019 - Mar 16, 2020
Location: Three Shadows Photography Art Centre Art Store
(155A Caochangdi, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100015)
Three Shadows Photography Art Centre is delighted to present the exhibition “Japanese Photography and the Collotype” together with Benrido. The exhibition brings together 38 different collotype prints by four outstanding Japanese artists: Masahisa Fukase, Masao Yamamoto, Issei Suda, and Yasui Nakaji, all produced and provided by Benrido.
Collotype is a printing technique invented in Germany in 1869. It is regarded as an ideal way to reproduce artworks due to the fact that it integrates photographic and lithographic printing technology, clearly representing the tones and the effect of the source material. Collotype printing technology was introduced to Japan at the end of the 19th century and has been studied and developed there ever since. However, with the rapid onset of various new technologies, the collotype began to fade from the public’s eye, particularly after 1970. At present, only three places in the world – China, Japan, and Germany – retain this technique.
Founded in 1887 in Kyoto, Benrido has specialized in advanced collotype printing technology from 1905. With the aim of preserving and developing the traditional technology, it has produced more than 2,500 items of nationally treasured art from Japan. As the last color collotype printing process company in the world, Benrido also provides artists with the opportunity to collaborate with masters in the field in the hope of introducing this ancient and precious technique to the public once again.
About Artists
Masahisa Fukase
Born on February 25, 1934, in Hokkaido, Masahisa Fukase has long been among the most renowned Japanese photographers. In the 1970s, together with Eikoh Hosoe, Daido Moriyama, and others, he set up the seminal Workshop Photography School and became an important figure in Japan's postwar photography landscape. His representative works include “Solitude of Ravens,” “Yoko,” “Memories of Father,” and “The Family.” “Raven Scenes” are color photographs taken at the same time during “Ravens”. The artist interpreted the work as follows: “I was previously surprised by the bird’s glowing eyes in 'Ravens 3' which was published in the January issue of Camera Mainichi in 1978, but this time with the colour photographs, I was surprised by the colour of the sky. Whilst shooting in Kanazawa I had to increase the ASA from 200 to 1600 and due to the light coming from behind, as well as the rainy and cloudy weather, the sky’s colour became strange and could not be predicted such as grey, green, light blue and so on. The Ravens' eyes glow brighter when they are captured from a further distance with telephoto lens and flashlights. I was about 30 to 50 meters away from them.”
Masao Yamamoto
Masao Yamamoto was born in 1957 and began to take photographs in the 1980s. He is known for his small-sized works, which illustrate how a tiny fragment can become part of a large reality. He blurs the boundary between photography and painting by coloring photographs with color or tea, sometimes tearing them apart in the process. Both his works and his personal lifestyle are imbued with Oriental philosophy and aesthetics. He has said: "I live, every day. I feel all the details around me and try to put them in the position for appreciation. Maybe this is the aesthetics of my life. Photography is a basic element of my life like eating and sleeping. I found the joy of life by searching for beauty inside of it.”
Issei Suda
Born in 1940, Issei Suda is regarded as one of the most underrated photographers by the Western world. Most of his works present daily scenes featuring travelers, sunflowers, old people and children. However, there is always something unique about his works that elevates them beyond the ordinary. As Kiyoji Otsuji once did, “There is always some kind of deviation in the woks of Issei Suda despite their common appearance.”
Yasui Nakaji
Yasui Nakaji was a Japanese photographer and a pioneer of realism in pre-war photography who regarded his camera as “his own life.” He experimented with many different styles of expression and technique, however, including dye printing in the 1930s, neorealism, structuralism, news reportage, surrealism, and even pure abstraction. From everyday life, Yasui Nakaji extracts powerful symbols. His work has influenced many Japanese postwar photographers. The Japanese documentary photography master Domon Ken considered him "the unparalleled pioneer.