Jun Abe
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Jun Abe (阿部 淳, Abe Jun; born 1955)[1] is a Japanese street photographer and educator who lives and works in Osaka. As of autumn 2014, he has produced six books of photographs of people in cities, including Citizens: 1979–1983, which won the Society of Photography Award. He was the official photographer of the butoh dance group Byakko-sha (白虎社) from 1982 to 1994.
Abe was born in Osaka.[1] He studied photography at Ōsaka Shashin Senmon Gakkō (now Visual Arts Osaka).[2]
From 1982 to 1994 he was the official photographer for Byakko-sha (白虎社), a butoh dance group based in Kyoto.[3][4] In this capacity he travelled extensively in 1982 and 1983.[1]
From 2002 Abe has taught at the Visual Arts Osaka college.[2] He has been a member of the Osaka-based photography collective running Vacuum Press since 2006.[2] Since 2013 he has been represented by Hatten Gallery.[2]
Publications
- クリーチャーズ ...... 神の獣たち = Kurīchāzu: Kami no kemono-tachi = Creaturers.[n 1] Village, 1989. ISBN 4-938598-04-3. Black and white photographs; essay by Isamu Ōsuka (大須賀勇) and artist chronology in Japanese.
- 大阪 = Ōsaka. Osaka: Vacuum, 2007. ISBN 9784990328801. Vacuum Press 1. Colour photographs.[n 2]
- 市民: 1979–1983 = Citizens: 1979–1983. Osaka: Vacuum, 2009. ISBN 9784990328832. Vacuum Press 4. Black and white photographs; no captions or other text.[n 3]
- 黒白ノート: 1996–1999 = Kokubyaku nōto: 1996–1999 = Black & white note: 1996–1999. Osaka: Vacuum, 2010. ISBN 9784990328856. Vacuum Press 5. Black and white photographs; no captions or other text.[n 4]
- マニラ: August, 1983 = Manira: August, 1983 = Manila: August, 1983. Osaka: Vacuum, 2011. ISBN 9784990328887. Vacuum Press 7. Black and white photographs; no captions or other text.[n 5]
- 黒白ノート・2 = Kokubyaku nōto: 2 = Black & white note 2. Osaka: Vacuum, 2012. OCLC 827210141. Vacuum Press 9. Black and white photographs; no captions or other text.[n 6]
- 2001. Osaka: Vacuum, 2013. OCLC 870254914. Vacuum Press 11. Black and white photographs; no captions or other text.[n 7]
- Busan. Osaka: Vacuum, 2014. Black and white photographs.[n 8]
- 1981＜上＞ = 1981 (jō) = 1981: Top.[n 9] Osaka: Vacuum, 2015. Vacuum Press 14. First volume of a two-volume set. Black and white photographs.[n 10]
- 1981＜下＞ = 1981 (ge) = 1981: Bottom.[n 9] Osaka: Vacuum, 2015. Vacuum Press 15. Second volume of a two-volume set. Black and white photographs.[n 11]
- 1981 コウベ = 1981 Kōbe = 1981: Kobe. Osaka: Vacuum, 2016.
- New York. Osaka: Vacuum, 2017.[n 12]
- Citizens in Society 1989~1994. Osaka: Vacuum, 2019.[n 13]
Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
- 2006: Black & White Note: Box, Gallery 10:06, Osaka.[5]
- 2012: Citizens/1983, Gallery Niépce, Tokyo.[6]
- 2012/2013: Citizens, The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka.[7]
- 2013: Black & White Note, Black & White Note 2, Place M Photo Gallery, Tokyo. Related to his Society of Photography Award.[8][9]
Group exhibitions
- 2011: Citizens, Quad Gallery, Format International Photography Festival, Derby, UK, 4 March–8 May 2011.[10]
- 2013: Paris Photo, Grand Paris, Paris. Presented by The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka.[11]
- 2013: Citizens, The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka. With Miyako Ishiuchi. Part of the exhibition Paris Photo 2013.[4]
- 2014: FotoIstanbul, Istanbul, Turkey, 17 October – 18 November 2014.[12]
