Mikiko Hara

Mikiko Hara (原 美樹子, Hara Mikiko), born in Toyama in 1967,^[1][2] is a Japanese photographer.

Hara graduated from Keio University in 1990, and then studied at the Tokyo College of Photography until 1996.^[1][2][3]

Using a medium-format camera, Hara takes photographs of people she encounters outside, in the train, and so forth. She said "My shooting style is so-called snapshot, so I can say all of my photographs were taken by a mere accident, . . . They are the photographs of somewhere yet nowhere."^[4]

Comparing her photography with that of Rinko Kawauchi, Ferdinand Brueggeman writes

Mikiko Hara's photography is poetic as well, but she has a different topic. She talks about distance and isolation of people in public spaces – especially of women.^[5]

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

• Is as It. Gallery le Deco (Shibuya, Tokyo), 1996.^[1][2]
• Agnus Dei. Ginza Nikon Salon (Ginza, Tokyo), 1998.^[1][2]
• Utsuro no seihō (うつろの製法). Shinjuku Konica Plaza (Shinjuku, Tokyo), 2001. The Third Gallery Aya (Osaka), 2001.^[1][2][6]
• Hatsugo no shūen (発語の周縁). Guardian Garden (Ginza, Tokyo), July 2004.^[1][2][7]
• Hysteric Thirteen publication exhibition. Place M (Shinjuku, Tokyo), August–September 2005.^[1][2][8]
• Humoresque. Appel (Kyōdō, Tokyo), 2006.^[1][2]
• Blind Letter. Cohen Amador Gallery (New York), 2007.^[2][9]
• Kumoma no atosaki (雲間のあとさき). Gallery Tosei (Nakano, Tokyo), May 2008.^[10]
• Blind Letter. Third District Gallery (Shinjuku, Tokyo), June 2010.^[11]

Other exhibitions

• Puraibētorūmu 2: Shin sekai no shashin hyōgen (プライベートルーム2 新世代の写真表現) = Private Room II: Photographs by a New Generation of Women in Japan. Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito (Mito, Ibaraki), April–June 1999.^[1][2][12]
• Japan: Keramik und Fotografie: Tradition und Gegenwart. Deichtorhallen (Hamburg), January–May 2003.^[13]
• Pingyao International Photography Festival (Pingyao, China), 2004.^[1][2]
• Nichijō kara no tabi (日常からの旅). Shinjuku Epsite (Shinjuku, Tokyo), November–December 2005. (in Japanese)^[1][2][14]
• Absolutely Private: Contemporary Photography, vol 4 = 私のいる場所 新進作家展vol.4 ゼロ年代の写真論. Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography (Ebisu, Tokyo), March–April 2006.^[1][2][15]
• A Private History. Fotografisk Center (Copenhagen), September 2007 – January 2008.^[1][2][16]
• Sangyō toshi Kawasaki no ayumi 100-nen (産業都市・カワサキのあゆみ100年). Kawasaki City Museum (Kawasaki), 2007.^{[1][2][17][18]}
• Shashin no genzai, kako, mirai: Shōwa kara kyō made (写真の現在・過去・未来 昭和から今日まで). Yokohama Civic Art Gallery (Yokohama), December 2009.^[1][19]
• Shibui: Six Japanese Photographers 1920s–2000. Stephen Cohen Gallery (Los Angeles), April–June 2009.^[20]
• In Focus: Tokyo. J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, California), August–December 2014.^[21][22]

Collections

• Bibliothèque nationale de France (Paris)^[1][2][23]
• Getty Museum^[1]

Books

• Hysteric Thirteen. Tokyo: Hysteric Glamour, 2005.
• These Are Days. Tokyo: Osiris, 2014. ISBN 978-4-905254-04-1.^{[n 1]}
• Change. New York: Gould Collection, 2016. ISBN 978-0-9973596-0-2. With a short story by Stephen Dixon, "Change." Edition of 500 copies plus 26 copies with a print.^{[n 2]}

Notes

References

External links

• Mikiko Hara's Zeiss Super Ikonta 531
• Maria Lokke, "Mikiko Hara’s Hysterical Thirteen", New Yorker photo booth, 27 May 2011.