Click! Photography beyond the idea of souvenirs

Memories, souvenirs, moments. These are the themes explored by this exhibition at the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum which questions the function of photography and video to capture unforgettable moments, to fix fragments of time otherwise destined to disappear forever. The starting point is the one proposed by Kishin Shinoyama, a Japanese artist known for photographing the album covers of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Double Fantasy and Milk and Honey. Shinoyama, born in 1940 and died at the beginning of 2024, published a work in 1976 - created together with another great master of Japanese photography Takuma Nakahira and entitled Dueling Theories of Photography - introducing some of the research topics dearest to him: the aging of society in the post-industrial world and the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in the search for contemporary solutions. This exhibition presents 70 new works created by some of today's most interesting international photographers and never before exhibited in Japan.