Creative Reconstruction: Catastrophe & Art – Oct. 25, Friday, Ryuichi Kaneko, a researcher at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography has been invited to give a lecture on “Disasters & Photography”.
Ryuichi Kaneko is a photo historian, a collector of photography books, and a special researcher at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography since 1990. He has not only worked on projects at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, but has served as a curator for many exhibitions at other art museums as well. He has co-edited and co-authored, “日本近代写真の成立 (The Founding of Modern Japanese Photography)”, “定本 木村伊兵衛 (Original Text: Ihei Kimura)”, “植田正治私の写真作法 (Shoji Ueda: My Codes of Photography)”, “Independent Photographers In Japan 1976-83”, “The History of Japanese Photography”, and many others. He also supervised the series of reprints of the rare photography books from the pre-war period “日本写真史の至宝 (The Greatest Treasures in the History of Japanese Photography)”.
Venue: Tsukuba University, Room 5C416
Date & Time: Oct. 25, Friday, 16:45～18:00
Everyone is invited to attend.
(Hashimoto)