A new exhibition at TOP focuses on the intrinsic relationship between two artistic disciplines

The latest exhibition to show in the capital “Architecture x Photography: A Light Existing Only Here” at the newly renamed Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, in Ebisu, is the latest attempt to demystify the relationship between these two artistic disciplines. 

The exhibition’s program notes claim, “This exhibition traces the history of architectural photography through an exploration of works by photographers from Japan and abroad. Photos on display include works from the late 1820s when the medium was first invented, to newer works by contemporary photographers.”

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One of the exhibition’s other greatest accomplishments is highlighting Osamu Murai’s photography of the work of one of Japan’s greatest architects, Kenzo Tange. His outrageous shot of Tange’s Yoyogi National Stadium (1964), bathed in a cloudburst of sunlight, and the curvature of the majestic St. Mary’s Cathedral in Bunkyo-ku, are on their own worth the admission price. Murai also gives a quintessential peek into the working life of Japanese workers in postwar Japan with his voyeuristic shot of the former Dentsu building (shot in 1967), still strangely relevant today. 

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