Category: Japan

Documentary Photography: Italy/Japan Books 2010-2015 ?>

Documentary Photography: Italy/Japan Books 2010-2015

One Second of Photographs Made by Six People in Japan
Documentary Photography: Japan 2014–2015 
By Doheny Lilly Stone Umeda Wan Ye
Edited by Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock
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Documentary Photography: Italy 2014
By Basile Cordi De Carion DeBonis DiPane Hellauer Hua Kelly Lazzaro Puntillo Spina Zhu
Edited by Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock & Joseph Lawton III
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One Second of Photographs Made by Six People in Japan
Documentary Photography: Japan 2013–2014 
By Hua Kirsch Langley Santoro Wilson Zheng
Edited by Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock
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Documentary Photography: Italy 2013
By Brown Chang Kalil Nelson Puchinskaya Rusnack
Edited by Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock & Joseph Lawton III
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One Second of Photographs Made by Six People in Japan
Documentary Photography: Japan 2012–2013 
By Anacker Hemmert Kim Krakowski Mainguy Scherer
Edited by Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock
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By Abrahams Aparicio Atwood Garcia Iliesiu Krakowski Longo Mottola Murphy Raganella Tozzi Vollrath Wendroff Zheng
Edited by Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock & Joseph Lawton III
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One Second of Photographs Made by Six People in Japan
Documentary Photography: Japan 2011–2012 
By Carrizales Chamberlain Iacono Mavrovitis Salinas Zoltowski
Edited by Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock
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R (Documentary Photography: Italy 2011)
By Giunta Iacono Jolly Mavrovitis Moreno Zimmerman
Edited by Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock & Joseph Lawton III
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One Second of Photographs Made by Six People in Japan
Documentary Photography: Japan 2010–2011 
By Colacicco Fiore Greenberg Hartnett Moreno O’Rourke
Edited by Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock
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Roma (Documentary Photography: Italy 2010)
By Bozzone Colacicco Cook DeMeo Detjen Krupitsky Peguero-Vidal Smyth Tanksley Vasquez
Edited by Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock & Joseph Lawton III
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The 2014-2015 Ildiko Butler Travel Grant Recipients ?>

The 2014-2015 Ildiko Butler Travel Grant Recipients

The 2014-2015 Ildiko Butler Travel Grant Recipients

Featuring: Qinrui Hua, Giovani Santoro, Aubrey Vollrath
Curators: Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock and Joseph Lawton

Hayden Hartnett Project Space
Fordham University at Lincoln Center MAP
113 West 60th Street at Columbus Avenue
(Inside the office of Undergraduate Admission room 203)
New York, NY 10023
haydenhartnettprojectspace.com

Dates: May 2015 – May 2016
For more images of the recipient’s work, please visit the exhibition website.

The Ildiko Butler Travel Grant is awarded to four photographers in the Department of Theatre and Visual Art each year who demonstrate exceptional promise. The grant amount is $3,500 and enables students to generate a substantial body of work while traveling abroad in their proposed countries. The Department of Theatre and Visual Art is pleased to present the photographs of Qinrui Hua, Giovani Santoro, and Aubrey Vollrath made in Japan, Italy, and Germany respectively. Their work represents a range of locations and interests; however, despite the differences in their individual focus, each photographer is engaged in the process of carefully studying the world and representing it in a straightforward, descriptive manner.

Applications are accepted each year in March. Please direct questions regarding the application guidelines to the Department of Theatre and Visual Arts in room 423.

Image captions left to right: Giovani Santoro, Italy; Qinrui Hua, Japan; Aubrey Vollrath, Germany

The Hayden Hartnett Project Space presents yearlong exhibitions of work produced by students from the Department of Theatre and Visual Art. It is located on the second floor in the Office of Undergraduate Admission, room 203. The hours for the Hayden Hartnett Project Space are 9 – 5, Monday through Friday.

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Featuring works by: Philip D’Afflisio, Douglas Dacy, Dawn Jolly, James McCracken, Cody Adam Pearce, Oswaldo Pereira, Giovani Santoro, David Wiggins

Curator: Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock

Exhibition dates: May 27–September 30, 2015
Reception: Wednesday, September 16, 6–8 pm
Summer Vet Together: Thursday, July 16, 4–7 pm. For all students, veterans, faculty, friends, staff, and allies

Fordham University’s Lipani Gallery 113 West 60th Street, New York, NY 10023 fordhamuniversitygalleries.com

veteransphotographers photographersveterans brings together forty images made by eight artists who have studied photography at Fordham University. Philip D’Afflisio, Dawn Jolly, Cody Adam Pearce, Oswaldo Pereira, and David Wiggins are Fordham University alumni and Douglas Dacy, James McCracken, and Giovani Santoro are currently matriculated students.

Working in black and white, color, and with both traditional and digital photographic technologies, their work represents a range of years, styles, and interests; however, despite their differences, each photographer is engaged in the process of carefully studying the world and representing it in a descriptive manner. Significantly, each of the exhibition participants is a veteran of the United States Armed Forces.

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Philip D’Afflisio’s color images focus on details in the landscape, particularly objects that foreground a sense of history. There is a classical beauty to the photographs, as well as recognition of inherent mystery. His picturesque image of an alert hunting dog leads us into this exhibition and sets the tone of inquiry found throughout the show.

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Douglas Dacy’s images pay special attention to form and the simple qualities of light. Illumination imparts significance to both landscapes and still lifes, regardless of the nature of the subject matter. The resultant photographs are poetic meditations on the ordinary.

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Dawn Jolly’s photographs were made during the Visual Arts Department course Documentary Photography: Italy. They display Rome and its inhabitants bathed in the beautiful summertime Mediterranean light, yet hint at social issues of gender and race just below the surface.

James
James McCracken’s quiet images made in Virginia along the West Virginia border provide a glimpse into territory that he is intimately familiar with, as he was raised in nearby Richmond. His spartan landscapes are precise descriptions of the topography, of the season, and have a timeless quality.

Cody
Cody Adam Pearce’s black and white images made in Morocco and Iraq are carefully composed studies of the relationship between humans and the landscape. In some cases the figure is directly featured, in other cases the human presence is dwarfed by its surroundings, or even absent entirely.

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Oswaldo Pereira makes very traditional, black and white documentary images of subject matter that is anything but traditional—an S&M convention in New York City. His understated approach to the topic yields a pragmatic record of an atypical event.

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Giovani Santoro spent the summer of 2014 traveling throughout Italy as the recipient of the Visual Arts Department’s Ildiko Butler Travel Grant. His images in this exhibition contrast the architecture and opulent spaces of Rome with their inhabitants.

David
David Wiggins subtly adjusts the tonalities in his images highlighting latent faces that he detects in the tarmac of roads and streets. The resulting portraits accentuate the surreal hiding within the everyday.

Regardless of the photographers’ chosen subjects, all participants in this exhibition are deeply engaged in the process of looking at what is in front of them. Their images embrace a long tradition in the medium of photography that celebrates the revelatory power of direct representation.

Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock, 2015
(for more information please email: apicellahit@fordham.edu)

Case Study: Tokyo: 2015 ?>

Case Study: Tokyo: 2015

Take one part working methodology from the famous 1972 book, Learning from Las Vegas: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form, combine with the megacity of Tokyo, add ten Fordham University Gabelli students, stir for nine days in Japan and what do you get? You get direct acquisition of knowledge through experience with a small team, realized in an online, as well as hardback research volume focusing on branding, sensory marketing, architecture, design, photography, and urban planning. Case Study: Tokyo: 2015!

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Screening: Katsuhiro Otomo’s “Akira” ?>

Screening: Katsuhiro Otomo’s “Akira”

Please join the Fordham University Friends of Films for Photographers and students from the course Documentary Photography: Japan 2014-2015 for a screening of Katsuhiro Otomo’s1988 landmark film, Akira (in BluRay).

Tuesday, December 9, 2014, 6PM
Fordham University Friends of Films for Photographers
113 West 60th Street
Visual Arts Complex
SL24L: Screening Room

It’s an oldie, but certainly a goodie, in fact, the grandfather of contemporary anime. The influence of this movie can not be overstated.

One of the best-known examples of contemporary Japanese animation, this cyberpunk adventure takes place in the post-apocalyptic city of Neo-Tokyo. A teen-age boy is exposed to a mysterious energy source and develops telekinetic powers that place him at the center of a conflict that may destroy the world. – Rotten Tomatoes

Read from The Guardian:
Akira: the future-Tokyo story that brought anime west

Dystopian Tokyo 2019 has never looked better. Food and friends are both welcome.

For more information please contact Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock: apicellahit@fordham.edu

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Case Study Tokyo 2014 Book

By Fordham University Gabelli School of Business students Domingo Amaro Chacon, Suzette Dorrielan, Marie Georgantzas, Irene Hartnett, Sam Houston, Samuel Hysell, Jennifer Jenkins, Alice Smyth, Melissa Tan, and Alberto Torrado Aguilar Cauz. Edited and designed by Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock. Print Book, 146 Pages, 7 × 7 in. (18 × 18 cm).

Take one part working methodology from the famous 1972 book, Learning from Las Vegas: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form, combine with the megacity of Tokyo, add ten Fordham University Gabelli students, stir for nine days in Japan and what do you get? You get direct acquisition of knowledge through experience with a small team, realized in an online, as well as hardback research volume focusing on branding, sensory marketing, architecture, design, photography, and urban planning.

Click HERE for online case study.

Click HERE for book.

Documentary Photography: Japan 2013-2014 Book ?>

Documentary Photography: Japan 2013-2014 Book

By Quinrui Hua, Leah Kirsch, Isabelle Langley, Giovani Santoro, Maggie Wilson, and Xuan Zheng. Edited by Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock. Print Book, 80 Pages, landscape, 10 × 8 in. (25 × 20 cm).

Click HERE for book preview.

This book is the final culmination of the course Documentary Photography: Japan offered by Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock through the Department of Theatre and Visual Arts at Fordham University.

The course description is as follows: This intensive class is designed as a platform for intermediate and advanced level students to further develop their photographic production with an emphasis on generating documentary projects focusing on the people, culture, and architecture of Japan. The megacity of Tokyo will serve as the starting point for our investigations, with image making itineraries that will take us from the cosmopolitan ward of Shinjuku, to the center of youth culture in Shibuya; and from the cutting edge fashion districts of Harajuku, to the temples and shrines of Asakusa.

Concurrent with our photographic explorations we will examine contemporary exhibitions in venues such as the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography in Ebisu, as well as view the ancient collections housed in Japan’s oldest and largest museum, the Tokyo National Museum in Ueno. Traveling by Shinkansen bullet train at 300 km/h (186 mph), we will make our way south to Kyoto, the nexus of traditional Japanese culture and history with approximately two thousand temples, shrines, and gardens that we can utilize as both the catalyst and stage for our photography. The extraordinary wealth of visual stimuli we will experience in Japan over ten days will certainly inspire, as well as function as the backdrop against which to critically discuss the strategies that photographers employ in communicating their interests.

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Jiro Dreams of Sushi

Please join the Fordham University Friends of Films for Photographers and students from The Gabelli School of Business course Marketing and the City: Tokyo for a screening of David Gelb’s 2011 film, Jiro Dreams of Sushi.
Tuesday, April 15, 2014, 6:30 PM
Fordham University Friends of Films for Photographers
113 West 60th Street
Visual Arts Complex
SL24L: Screening Room

Jiro Dreams of Sushi is the story of 85-year-old Jiro Ono, considered by many to be the world’s greatest sushi chef. He is the proprietor of Sukiyabashi Jiro, a 10-seat, sushi-only restaurant inauspiciously located in a Tokyo subway station. Despite its humble appearances, it is the first restaurant of its kind to be awarded a prestigious three-star Michelin Guide rating, and sushi lovers from around the globe make repeated pilgrimage, calling months in advance and shelling out top dollar for a coveted seat at Jiro’s sushi bar.

Jiro Dreams of Sushi is a thoughtful and elegant meditation on work, family, and the art of perfection, chronicling Jiro’s life as both an unparalleled success in the culinary world and as a loving yet complicated father. –Magnolia Pictures

Food and friends are both welcome.
For more information please contact Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock: apicellahit@fordham.edu