© Naoya Hatakeyama
Two shows going up in San Francisco this week are well worth seeing. The first is Naoya Hatakeyama’s “Natural Stories” at SFMOMA 1. This exhibit was shown in Tokyo last year, and it includes Hatakeyama’s photographs taken after the 3/11 earthquake. I still think these are, without any question, the “best” images to come out of the disaster yet. If you have any interest in photography after 3/11, you must see the show.
Also, Nobuyoshi Araki has a show of old and new photographs 2, dated 1979 – 2040. I saw it in Tokyo a few months ago, and if it’s similar to what was exhibited here, the show may include some truly excellent photographs of pizza.
I just saw this show yesterday and it was excellent. Particularly poignant were the 60 photos of his home town taken between 2002 and 2010, showing on a screen in the same room as the photos taken after the tsunami.