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‘Beginnings, Forever: From the Collection of the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts’

  • Date:2018-06-11
‘Beginnings, Forever: From the Collection of the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts’

The National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts will spotlight pictures taken by famous photographers before they turned 35 in this joint exhibition with the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts from June 23 through Sept. 16.

 

"Beginnings, Forever" will showcase 340 pictures by 74 photographers from around the world, spanning an era of 120 years from 1898 to 2016. Many of these photos were purchased by the Kiyosato museum during the past two decades through its "Young Portfolio" program.


Among the hefty photographic works chosen for this exhibition are those by 12 Taiwan artists ― Chang Chao-tang, Chen Po-i, Ho Mu-tien, Sim Chang, Wong Wei-chung, Li Hao, Chen Yan-cheng, Lin Hsuan-lang, Lin Wen-chiang, Yang Che-yi, and Chong Kok-yew ― that are in the Kiyosato museum's collections. 


From the vantage of art history, early works may form the basis of an artist's philosophy and aesthetics ― a proverbial "home" that he or she always returns to nest. These core values are often formed before a career takes off, and remain embedded most brightly in the initial lot.

 

The 74 featured artists in this exhibition are:

 

Sungseok Ahn

G.M.B. Akash

Nobuyoshi Araki

Shinya Arimoto

Brassaï

Chao-Tang Chang

Sim Chang

Po-I Chen

Yan-Cheng Chen

Kok-Yew Chong

Alvin Langdon Coburn

Dr. Harold E. Edgerton

Ed van der Elsken

ERIC

Ismail Ferdous

Robert Frank

Shinya Fujiwara

Emmet Gowin

Sungpil Han

Elizabeth Haust

Noriko Hayashi

Robert Heinecken

Lucia Herrero

Lewis Hine

Mu-Tien Ho

Naoki Honjo

Eikoh Hosoe

Hisae Imai

Yasuhiro Ishimoto

Jhen-Hao Jhan

Ryo Kameyama

Yousuf Karsh

Kikuji Kawada

André Kertész

Hiroh Kikai

Keizo Kitajima

Ken Kitano

William Klein

Viktor Koen

Mariya Kozhanova

Shisei Kuwabara

Al Lapkovsky

Sergiy Lebedynskyy

Myoung Ho Lee

Hao Li

Hsuan-Lang Lin

Wen-Chiang Lin

Jun Miki

Rafal Milach

Toshiya Momose

Daido Moriyama

Shigeichi Nagano

Takehiko Nakafuji

Ikko Narahara

Adam Pańczuk

Irving Penn

Nandita Raman

Masato Seto

David Seymour

Kishin Shinoyama

Yoshikazu Shirakawa

Eugene Smith

Guillermo Srodek-Hart

Alfred Stieglitz

Tokyo Rumando

Shomei Tomatsu

Haruo Tomiyama

Hiromi Tsuchida

Munem Wasif

Edward Weston

Wei-Chung Wong

Hanne van der Woude

Che-Yi Yang

Piotr Zbierski

 

 

The Hokuto, Yamanashi-based museum will also host a photography exhibition titled "Looking Back: Taiwanese Photographers’ Island Gazes 1970s – 1990s" and curated by the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts from July 7 through Dec. 2, 2018.

 

 

‘Beginnings, Forever: From the Collection of the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts’