Asako Narahashi
Biographies Asako Narahashi is a Tokyo-based Japanese photographer. She is known for her approach of taking photos from offshore and splitting the frame between water and land or sky. Her photographs are held in a permanent collection in San Francisco Museum of Art and The National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo.
Asako Narahashi
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- Japan
- Occupation
- photographer
- Education
- Waseda University
- Languages
- Japanese
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Biographies Asako Narahashi is a Tokyo-based Japanese photographer. She is known for her approach of taking photos from offshore and splitting the frame between water and land or sky. Her photographs are held in a permanent collection in San Francisco Museum of Art and The National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo.
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In 1990, Narahashi opened the gallery 03FOTOS (1990-2001) to present her works. In 1996, she co-founded the photography magazine Main (1996-2000) with Ishiuchi Miyako.
• "half awake and half asleep in the water", Festival Images Vevey, Switzerland (2016) • "Coming Closer and Getting Further Away", Tokyo Art Museum, Tokyo (2009) • "half awake and half asleep in the water", Yossi Milo Gallery, New York (2008)
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1959
Asako Narahashi born at Tokyo.
2007
Half awake and half asleep in the water is dated 2007.
2009
Asako Narahashi 2009-1989 (2009) is digitised and catalogued by Open Library.
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• NU E. (1997) • Asako Narahashi: Funiculi Funicula. Photographs 1998–2003 (2004) • Half Awake Half Asleep in the Water. (2007) • Ever After. (2013) • Gips. (2018) • Dawn in Spring. (2023) • I’m So Happy You Are Here: Japanese Women Photographers from the 1950s to Now (2024)
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Half awake and half asleep in the water
2007
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