PORTRAIT Yoshihiko Ueda

A collection of portraits by Yoshihiko Ueda, one of Japan's leading advertising photographers, capturing 38 cultural figures including Japanese artists, novelists, and photographers over four years from 1999 to 2002 at a monthly pace.

Ueda's photographs possess a consistently calm and assured gaze, whether his subjects are products, people, forests, or rivers. Even in product advertisements, there is no intent to incite people or encourage consumption.

Yet they undeniably possess a mysterious gravitational pull that captures the heart and eye.

Compiled during Ueda's forties, this book gathers a collection of profoundly weighty portraits of 38 individuals who shaped an era in Japan across various fields.

Each turn of the page is charged with a palpable reality and tension that evokes a sense of awe.

(Featured Individuals)

Daido Moriyama / Nagisa Oshima / Genpei Akasegawa / Akira Uno / Nobuyoshi Araki / Eikoh Hosoe, among others