Embrace

Embrace #15

Embrace #15

Medium: Gelatin silver photograph
Date: 1970

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Embrace #50

Embrace #50

Medium: Gelatin silver photograph
Date: 1971
Size: 20x24"
Edition: one of three

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Embrace #39

Embrace #39

Medium: Gelatin silver photograph
Date: 1971
Size: 20x24"
Edition: one of three

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Embrace #13

Embrace #13

Medium: Gelatin silver photograph
Date: 1971
Size: 20x24"

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Embrace #61

Embrace #61

Medium: Gelatin silver photograph
Date: 1971
size: 20x24"
Edition: one of three

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Embrace #49

Embrace #49

Medium: Gelatin silver photograph
Date: 1971
Size: 20x24"
Edition: one of three

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Embrace #27

Embrace #27

Medium: Gelatin silver photograph
Date: 1971
Size: 20x24"
Edition: one of three

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Embrace #22

Embrace #22

Medium: Gelatin silver photograph
Date: 1971
Size: 20x24"
Edition: one of three
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Size: 11 x 7 1/2"

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Embrace #46

Embrace #46

Medium: Gelatin silver photograph
Date: 1970
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Gaudi Ceiling

Gaudi, I

Gaudi, I

Medium: Gelatin silver photograph
Date: 1977
Size: 20x24"
Edition: one of three

#8717-8A

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Gaudi, II

Gaudi, II

Medium: Gelatin silver photograph
Date: 1977
Size: 20x24"
Edition: one of three

#8717-10A

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Gaudi, III (Sold)

Gaudi, III (Sold)

Medium: Gelatin silver photograph
Date: 1977
Size: 20x24"
Edition: one of three

#8717-15

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Kamatachi

Kamatachi #23

Kamatachi #23

Medium: Gelatin silver photograph
Date: 1968
Size: 20x24"

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Kamatachi #17

Kamatachi #17

Medium: Gelatin silver photograph
Date: 1968
Size: 20x24"

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Kamatachi #7

Kamatachi #7

Medium: Gelatin silver photograph
Date: 1967

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Kamatachi #36

Kamatachi #36

Medium: Gelatin silver photograph
Date: 1968
Size: 16x20" printed on 20x24" paper.
Edition: one of three

There are two prints of this image.

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Kamatachi

Kamatachi

Medium: Gelatin silver photograph
Date:
Size" 20x24"
Edition: one of three

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Kamatachi #31

Kamatachi #31

Medium: Gelatin silver photograph
Date: 1968
Size: 20x24"
Edition: one of three

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Kamatachi #34

Kamatachi #34

Medium: Gelatin silver photograph
Date: 1968
Size: 20x24"
Edition: one of three

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Kamatachi #4

Kamatachi #4

Medium: Gelatin silver photograph
Date: 1968
Size: 20x24"
Edition: one of three

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Kamatachi #25

Kamatachi #25

Medium: Gelatin silver photograph
Date: 1968
Size: 20x24"
Edition: one of three

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Kamatachi #26

Kamatachi #26

Medium: Gelatin silver photograph
Date: n.d.
Size: 7 1/2 x 11 1/4"

Signed and titled on verso in English and Japanese.

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Man & Woman

Man & Woman #19

Man & Woman #19

Medium: Gelatin silver photograph
Date: 1960

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Man & Woman #1

Man & Woman #1

Medium: Gelatin silver photograph
Date: 1960
Size: 20x24"
Edition: vintage print, one of three

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Man & Woman #6

Man & Woman #6

Medium: Gelatin silver photograph
Date: 1960
Size: 20x24"
Edition: one of three

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Man & Woman #32

Man & Woman #32

Medium: Gelatin silver photograph
Date: 1960
size: 23 1/2 x 17 5/8"
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Man & Woman #2

Man & Woman #2

Medium: Gelatin silver photograph
Date: 1960
Size: 20x24"
Edition: one of three

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Ordeal By Roses

Ordeal By Roses #40

Ordeal By Roses #40

Medium: Gelatin silver photograph
Date: 1961
Size: 20x24"
Edition; one of three

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Ordeal By Roses #12

Ordeal By Roses #12

Medium: Gelatin silver photograph
Date: 1963
Size: 21 1/8" x 15

This is a vintage print. It is signed, dated and titled on verso in pencil in both English and Japanese.

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Ordeal By Roses #1

Ordeal By Roses #1

Medium: Gelatin silver photograph
Date: 1961
Size: 20x24"
Edition: one of three

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Ordeal by Roses, #20

Ordeal by Roses, #20

Medium: Gelatin silver photograph
Date: 1963
Size: 20x24"
Edition: one of three

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Ordeal By Roses #17

Ordeal By Roses #17

Medium: Gelatin silver photograph
Date: 1963
Size: 20x24"
Edition: one of three

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Simon: A Private Landscape

Simon, A Private Landscape (#5543-8)

Simon, A Private Landscape (#5543-8)

Medium: Gelatin silver photograph
Date: 1972
Size: Printed on 20x24" paper
Edition: one of three

#5643-8

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Simon: A Private Landscape (#5558-16)

Simon: A Private Landscape (#5558-16)

Medium: Gelatin silver photograph
Date: 1972
Size: Printed on 20x24" paper
Edition: one of three

#5558-16

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Workshops

Twinka Under Tree Shadow, Yosemite

Twinka Under Tree Shadow, Yosemite

Medium: Gelatin silver photograph
Date: 1975
Size: Printed on 20x24" paper
Edition: one of three

#7853-5

Note: Twinka is the daughter of artist, Wayne Tiebaud.

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Arles

Arles

Medium: Gelatin silver photograph
Date:
Size: 20x24"
Edition: 3

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A Pubic Hair Butterfly, Carmel (#8568-23)

A Pubic Hair Butterfly, Carmel (#8568-23)

Medium: Gelatin silver photograph
Date: 1977
Size: Printed on 20x24" paper
Edition: one of three

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On the Great Plain Rock, Yosemite (#7435-33)

On the Great Plain Rock, Yosemite (#7435-33)

Medium: Gelatin silver photograph
Date: 1974
Size: Printed on 20x24" paper
Edition: one of three

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Standing Woman at Camarque (#8243-10)

Standing Woman at Camarque (#8243-10)

Medium: Gelatin silver photograph
Date: 1977
Size: Printed on 20x24" paper
Edition: one of three

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Standing Man at Camarque (Sold)

Standing Man at Camarque (Sold)

Medium: Gelatin silver photograph
Date: 1976
Size: Printed on 20x24" paper
Edition: one of three

#8243-17

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BIOGRAPHY

Eikoh+Hosoi+1976

CHRONOLOGY

1933 Born,  the second son of a Buddhist priest, in Yonezawa, Yamagata Prefecture in Japan. Grows up in Tokyo.1947 Adopts the name “Eikoh” as a symbolic gesture to acknowledge the new era in Japan.

1952 Enrolls at the Tokyo College of Photography.

1956 First solo exhibition, An American girl in Tokyo, at the Konishiroku Photo Gallery in Tokyo.

1960 Yukio Mishima becomes interested in Hosoe’s work. Directs an experimental film Navel and A-Bomb.

Mishima invites Hosoe to photograph him for the cover of his book, Attack on Beauty. Hosoe asks Mishima to continue posing for him. The result is the Barakei series.

Killed by Roses, a book on the Barakei series is published (Tokyo: Shueisha, 1962).

Gaudi’s architecture has a profound effect on him.

1966 Participates in Ten Photographers exhibition at the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo.

Kamaitachi is published.

1970 Yukio Mishima commits ritual suicide while Killed by Roses is being prepared for re-publication.

Embrace is published.

1972-74 Meets Ansel Adams. Lectures and holds workshops in the U.S.

1975 Accepts professorship at the Tokyo College of Photography.

1977 Travels to Barcelona. Begins to photograph Gaudi’s works.

1982 Discovers “Mini-Graphs” – test prints torn by hand and mounted on card.

1995 Becomes first director of the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts.