Asako narahashi biography of abraham
CHROSTOWSKA, Halina NARAHASHI, Asako....
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Asako Narahashi was born in Tokyo in 1959. While attending Waseda University, Tokyo, she joined Foto Session workshops by Daidō Moriyama (1938–) in 1986.
Seek and You Shall Find.
In 1989 she held her first solo exhibition Dawn in Spring, which was published as a photobook under the same title in 2023. This book is composed of black-and-white photos depicting motifs that resonate with the principles of are bure boke (grainy, blurred and out-of-focus) established by Moriyama, while remaining slightly different.
Narahashi’s first photos were taken on a trip to the Kyushu region and then closer to the main island of Okinawa Prefecture and Taketomi Island, acting like a diary.
The year 1989 marked a turning point in Japan, moving away from the era Moriyama and other Provoke artists experienced the 1960s.
It heralded the end of the Showa era and start of the Heisei, the introduction of the consumption tax, the impending end of Japanese economic development, and, for the artist, her debut as a