Tokyo Photographic Art Museum

35°38′30″N 139°42′48″E / 35.6417°N 139.7132°E / 35.6417; 139.7132

The Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography (東京都写真美術館, Tōkyō-to Shashin Bijutsukan) is a photography gallery (with cinema) in Meguro-ku, a short walk from Ebisu station in southwest Tokyo.

On its opening in 1990, this was one of the first photography galleries in Japan not to be dedicated to the works of a single photographer. Most of the exhibitions since then have been themed rather than devoted to a single photographer, but shows have been dedicated to Berenice Abbott (1990) and Tadahiko Hayashi (1993–4), and also to living photographers including Martin Parr (2007) and Hiromi Tsuchida (2008).

In order to appeal to children as well as adults, the gallery holds exhibitions of anime and video games.

The library of the gallery has a substantial collection of books of photographs.

The museum now (2008) also labels itself "Syabi", pronounced shabi.^[1]

As of early 2008, there is no entrance charge for the building or its research facilities, but each exhibition has an entrance charge.

Notes

^ As is common in Japanese, this portmanteau is derived from the first moras of the words shashin (photo) and bijutsu (art). The use of "sy" rather than "sh" results from romanization in Kunrei or Nihon rather than Hepburn style.

External links

Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography (its own website)

[1] As is common in Japanese, this portmanteau is derived from the first moras of the words shashin (photo) and bijutsu (art). The use of "sy" rather than "sh" results from romanization in Kunrei or Nihon rather than Hepburn style.

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