I-Photography (Shi-shashin) refers to a Japanese photographic mode that emerged in the 1970s.
A Japanese photographic mode that took shape from the 1970s, taking family, lovers, rooms, the body, memory, and death as its subjects — not as private records but as works that turn the distance between seeing and living itself into form.
I-Photography's core was not the private subject matter — family, lovers, the body — but the claim that the distance between seeing and living could itself become photographic form, turning subjectivity into method rather than confession.
I-Photography (Shi-shashin) refers to a Japanese photographic mode that emerged in the 1970s.*1
On this site, photographers connected to I-Photography (Shi-shashin) appear mainly from 1890–1910s to 1980–1990s, often overlapping with Typological Photography and Documentary.*2
I-Photography (Shi-shashin) often overlaps with Typological Photography and Documentary. Reading those pages together makes it easier to see where method, institution, or critical language begins to diverge.*7
She photographed her own nights — her lovers and friends — as if they were family snapshots. She showed that photography can exist precisely where the distance between …
Tokuko Ushioda is a photographer who has used refrigerators, books, and the light and household objects left in the rooms of Gotokuji to photograph the time of those close to …