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Japanese street photographer and educator

Jun Abe (阿部 淳, Abe Jun, born 1955) is a Japanese street photographer and educator who lives and works in Osaka. As of autumn 2014, he has produced six books of photographs of people in cities, including Citizens: 1979–1983, which won the Society of Photography Award. He was the official photographer of the butoh dance group Byakko-sha (白虎社) from 1982 to 1994.

Life and work

Abe was born in Osaka. He studied photography at Ōsaka Shashin Senmon Gakkō (now Visual Arts Osaka).

From 1982 to 1994 he was the official photographer for Byakko-sha (白虎社), a butoh dance group based in Kyoto. In this capacity he travelled extensively in 1982 and 1983.

From 2002 Abe has taught at the Visual Arts Osaka college. He has been a member of the Osaka-based photography collective running Vacuum Press since 2006. Since 2013 he has been represented by Hatten Gallery.

Publications

  • クリーチャーズ ...... 神の獣たち = Kurīchāzu: Kami no kemono-tachi = Creaturers. Village, 1989. ISBN 4-938598-04-3. Black and white photographs; essay by Isamu Ōsuka (大須賀勇) and artist chronology in Japanese.
  • 大阪 = Ōsaka. Osaka: Vacuum, 2007. ISBN 9784990328801. Vacuum Press 1. Colour photographs.
  • 市民: 1979–1983 = Citizens: 1979–1983. Osaka: Vacuum, 2009. ISBN 9784990328832. Vacuum Press 4. Black and white photographs; no captions or other text.
  • 黒白ノート: 1996–1999 = Kokubyaku nōto: 1996–1999 = Black & white note: 1996–1999. Osaka: Vacuum, 2010. ISBN 9784990328856. Vacuum Press 5. Black and white photographs; no captions or other text.
  • マニラ: August, 1983 = Manira: August, 1983 = Manila: August, 1983. Osaka: Vacuum, 2011. ISBN 9784990328887. Vacuum Press 7. Black and white photographs; no captions or other text.
  • 黒白ノート・2 = Kokubyaku nōto: 2 = Black & white note 2. Osaka: Vacuum, 2012. OCLC 827210141. Vacuum Press 9. Black and white photographs; no captions or other text.
  • 2001. Osaka: Vacuum, 2013. OCLC 870254914. Vacuum Press 11. Black and white photographs; no captions or other text.
  • Busan. Osaka: Vacuum, 2014. Black and white photographs.
  • 1981＜上＞ = 1981 (jō) = 1981: Top. Osaka: Vacuum, 2015. Vacuum Press 14. First volume of a two-volume set. Black and white photographs.
  • 1981＜下＞ = 1981 (ge) = 1981: Bottom. Osaka: Vacuum, 2015. Vacuum Press 15. Second volume of a two-volume set. Black and white photographs.
  • 1981 コウベ = 1981 Kōbe = 1981: Kobe. Osaka: Vacuum, 2016.
  • New York. Osaka: Vacuum, 2017.
  • Citizens in Society 1989~1994. Osaka: Vacuum, 2019.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

  • 2006: Black & White Note: Box, Gallery 10:06, Osaka.
  • 2012: Citizens/1983, Gallery Niépce, Tokyo.
  • 2012/2013: Citizens, The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka.
  • 2013: Black & White Note, Black & White Note 2, Place M Photo Gallery, Tokyo. Related to his Society of Photography Award.

Group exhibitions

  • 2011: Citizens, Quad Gallery, Format International Photography Festival, Derby, UK, 4 March–8 May 2011.
  • 2013: Paris Photo, Grand Paris, Paris. Presented by The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka.
  • 2013: Citizens, The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka. With Miyako Ishiuchi. Part of the exhibition Paris Photo 2013.
  • 2014: FotoIstanbul, Istanbul, Turkey, 17 October – 18 November 2014.

Awards

Notes

  1. The colophon shows the short Japanese title クリーチャーズ (Kurīchāzu) alone. The subtitle 神の獣たち (Kami no kemono-tachi) appears nowhere other than the title page. Creaturers appears on the front cover and title page and also in the list of exhibitions. It appears to be a mistake, because (if it rhymed with "treasurers"), "creaturers" would have different katakana (most likely クリーチュラーズ); as it is, the pronunciation of the Japanese title matches that of "creatures".
  2. The publisher's page about Ōsaka (as archived by the Wayback Machine on 8 September 2014) is here.
  3. The publisher's page about Citizens (as archived by the Wayback Machine on 3 April 2016) is here.
  4. The publisher's page about Black & white note (as archived by the Wayback Machine on 8 September 2014) is here.
  5. The publisher's page about Manila (as archived by the Wayback Machine on 8 September 2014) is here.
  6. The publisher's page about Black & white note 2 (as archived by the Wayback Machine on 8 September 2014) is here.
  7. The publisher's page about 2001 (as archived by the Wayback Machine on 8 September 2014) is here.
  8. The publisher's page about Busan (as archived by the Wayback Machine on 3 April 2016) is here.
  9. ^ "Top" is a literal translation of jō (上) in other contexts; and "bottom" is a literal translation of ge (下) in other contexts. In this context, jō and ge simply mean volumes 1 and 2 respectively of a two-volume work. (As is common for two-volume works in Japan, the two are priced and sold separately.)
  10. The publisher's page about 1981: Top (as archived by the Wayback Machine on 3 April 2016) is here.
  11. The publisher's page about 1981: Bottom (as archived by the Wayback Machine on 3 April 2016) is here.
  12. The publisher's page about New York is here.
  13. The publisher's page about Citizens in Society 1989~1994 is here.

References

  1. ^ Chronology in Creaturers.
  2. ^ "Jun Abe", Vacuum Press. Archived by the Wayback Machine on 8 September 2014.
  3. "Paris Photo: 14.17 Nov 2013 Grand Palais", Paris Photo. Accessed 7 September 2014.
  4. ^ "Paris Photo 2013: Ishiuchi Miyako, Abe Jun Archived 8 September 2014 at the Wayback Machine", The Third Gallery Aya. Accessed 7 September 2014.
  5. 白黒ノート・箱, Gallery 10:06. Accessed 7 September 2014.
  6. "2012 Archived 29 December 2016 at the Wayback Machine", Gallery Niépce. Accessed 7 September 2014.
  7. "Citizens: Jun Abe Archived 8 September 2014 at the Wayback Machine", The Third Gallery Aya. Accessed 7 September 2014.
  8. "2013.7.29-8.4", Place M Photo Gallery. Accessed 7 September 2014.
  9. Kōtarō Iizawa, 阿部淳「市民・黒白ノート・黒白ノート2」, Artscape, 15 August 2013. Accessed 18 September 2014.
  10. "Citizens: Black and white images from noiresque streets of Japan", Format Festival. Accessed 7 September 2014.
  11. "Jun Abe", Paris Photo. Accessed 7 September 2014.
  12. "First Foto Istanbul Festival in Besiktas Square until Nov. 18". Türkiye Newspaper. 4 November 2014. Retrieved 10 October 2015.
  13. "Prize of 'Society of Photography' Archived 13 May 2014 at the Wayback Machine", Society of Photography. Accessed 6 September 2014.
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