10×10 Japanese Photobooks is a hands-on touring reading room and publication featuring 100 contemporary Japanese photobooks.
10×10 Japanese Photobooks Reading Room Tour
- International Center of Photography / Bard Studios, New York (28-30 September 2012)
- PGH Photo Fair, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (17-18 May 2014)
- Unseen Photo Fair, Amsterdam (18-21 September 2014)
- FOLA: Fototeca Latinoamericana, Buenos Aires (13-17 November 2019)
About 10×10 Japanese Photobooks
10×10 Japanese Reading Room, a traveling pop-up reading room sponsored by the International Center of Photography Library and the Photobook Facebook Group, presents 100 Japanese photobooks from the perspective of 10 specialists who have each been asked to select 10 postwar Japanese photobooks or magazines. 10×10 invites the public to come in, browse and explore the books.
Press
The New Yorker, 10×10: Japanese Photo Books (28 September 2012)
Bookbinding Now, Podcast Interview (14 November 2012)
10×10 Japanese Reading Room Specialists
Dan Abbe and Andrew Thorn (PH), Tomoka Aya (The Third Gallery Aya), Ferdinand Brueggemann (Galerie Priska Pasquer), Atsushi Fujiwara (Asphalt Magazine), Yasunori Hoki (Super Labo), Akio Nagasawa (BLD Gallery), Christopher Phillips and Deirdre Donohue (International Center of Photography), Yoko Sawada (Osiris), Kunihiro Takahashi (Tosei-sha) and Ivan Vartanian (Goliga).
10×10 reading room featured Japanese photo magazines IMA, Asphalt and Phat Photo.
In addition to the physical reading room, 10×10 Japanese Photobooks has also organized a virtual space where 10 online Japanese photobook specialists and bloggers recommend 10 books each for an additional 100 books of interest.
10×10 Japanese Online Specialists
Ken Iseki (My New Notebook), Lilian Froger (748= photobooks), Microcord, Kohei Oyama (Parapera), Nicolas Codron (A Japanese Book), Victor Sira and Shiori Kawasaki (bookdummypress), Laurence Vecten (One year of books), Marco Bohr (Visual Culture Blog), Rémi Coignet and Nina Poppe (Des Livres et des photos) and Marc Feustel (Eyecurious).
