If you're anything like Japablum, there's nothing that makes you more comfortable and relaxed than visiting the park at night, hiding in the bushes, and watching people do it. It just feels right.
Well, for the two people out there that are, indeed, exactly like Japablum, has the Yossi Milo gallery in NYC got a treat for you. Through October 20 the gallery will be hosting The Park, featuring photos by dirty perv Kohei Yoshiyuki, who roamed Tokyo's parks by night in the '70s hoping to get that perfect view of people screwing and people watching people screwing.
When Yoshiyuki showed his photos at the Komai Gallery in 1979 and it was considered an underground success. Sadly, like it does for the best of us, paranoia set in, and Yoshiyuki (a pseudonym) freaked out, destroyed a lot of the original photos, and pursued a new career path doing family portraits. So sad.
Yoshiyuki has since been found and convinced to hand over the remaining negatives so that a public hungry for black and white, grainy photos of ordinary, sometimes gay people doing extraordinarily naked things can be sated.
Bring cigarettes, please. We may need one.
4 comments:
It that you on the ground?- James
"Mr. Kohei Yoshiyuki" is the correct way to call him. "Yoshiyuki" is his family name.
"吉行(Yoshiyuki) 耕平(Kohei)" in kanji. The same with a Japanese novelist
Yoshiyuki Jun'nosuke(吉行 淳之介).
The Times is wrong to call him Mr Yoshiyuki in print. How illiterate the Times is.
"Mr. Kohei Yoshiyuki" is the correct way to refer to him in every reference. "Yoshiyuki" is his family name.
"吉行(Yoshiyuki) 耕平(Kohei)" in kanji. The same with a Japanese novelist
Yoshiyuki Jun'nosuke(吉行 淳之介).
I had to laugh. Certainly, he was a famous photographer in 1970s and
80s but I don't think his photos are worth something. Is the American
art scene all right ? (?_?)
Yes, I too think his photos are "yarase". He was among young and
ambitious photographers in 1970s so it was likely that he committed
"yarase".
Yarase means staged. this comments are from a Japanes friend in Tokyo. The Times critic and the Times reader got taken by these staged photos. What's wrong with USA today?
those photos were staged. YARASE is a Japanese concept of staging things to foll the public. That is what those photos are. AMerica, you got fooled by Mr Yarase.,..ask a Japanese! they will tell you. the NEW YORK TIMES critic got fooled too.
his name is NOT Yoshiyuki. that was a pen name. his pen name was Yoshiyuku Kohei, it means Yoshiyuki the Upperclassman. america cannot even read Japanese correctly. BAKA!
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