- Kohei Yoshiyuki
__notoc__nihongo|Kohei Yoshiyuki|吉行耕平|Yoshiyuki Kōhei|born 1946 is a Japanese
photographer who attracted much attention in 1979 with hisexhibition "Kōen" (nihongo2|公園, Park) at the Komai Gallery, Tokyo. The black and white photographs were presented in a book published in 1980 that is "nominally a soft-core voyeur's manual", [Parr and Badger, 297.] with photographs of people in sexual activities in Shinjuku and Yoyogi parks (both inTokyo ), mostly with unknown spectators around them. The photographs were taken with a 35 millimetrecamera andinfrared flashbulbs.Gerry Badger and others have commented on how the photographs raise questions about the boundaries between spectator, voyeur and participant.Yoshiyuki's works are in the collections of the
Museum of Modern Art (New York),San Francisco Museum of Modern Art ,Museum of Contemporary Photography (Chicago), Museum of Fine Arts (Houston), andNorth Carolina Museum of Art (Raleigh). [NY MoMA, SF MoMA, MCP, MFA, NCMA: Gefter, "Sex in the park."]Books by Yoshiyuki
*"Dokyumento: Kōen" (nihongo2|ドキュメント公園, Document: Park). Sebun Mukku 4. Tokyo: Sebun-sha, 1980.
*"Tōsatsu! Sunahama no koibito-tachi: Uwasa no rabu airando sennyū satsueiki" (nihongo2|盗撮！砂浜の恋人たち：噂のラブアイランド潜入撮影記). Sandē-sha, 1983. ISBN 4-88203-022-5.
*"Middonaito fōkasu: Mayonaka no sekigaisen tōsatsu" (nihongo2|ミッドナイト・フォーカス：真夜中の赤外線盗撮). Tokyo: Tokuma, 1989. ISBN 4-19-503985-4
*"Yoshiyuki Kōhei shashinshū: Sekigai kōsen" (nihongo2|吉行耕平写真集：赤外光線). Tokyo: Hokusōsha, 1992. ISBN 4-938620-36-7.Notes
References
*Parr, Martin, and Gerry Badger. "The Photobook: A History." Vol. 2. London: Phaidon, 2006. ISBN 0-7148-4433-0.
External links
*"Down in the park: Yoshiyuki Kohei's nocturnes". English translation of an interview of Yoshiyuki by
Nobuyoshi Araki , first published in "Weekend Super" in 1979. "Aperture," no. 188, Fall 2007. Included within the [http://www.yossimilogallery.com/artists/kohe_yosh/press-kohe_yosh.pdf press kit] (PDF) for the "Park" exhibition at the Yossi Milo Gallery. Accessed1 March 2008 .
* Gefter, Philip. " [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/23/arts/design/23geft.html Sex in the park, and its sneaky spectators] ". "New York Times,"23 September 2007 . Also " [http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/09/24/arts/gefter.php Kohei Yoshiyuki captures Japanese voyeurism] ". "International Herald Tribune,"24 September 2007 .
*" [http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/arts/20070923_YOSHIYUKI_FEATURE/index.html Layers of voyeurism] ". "New York Times." Needs Flash.
*" [http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/gallery/2007/oct/18/art.photography?picture=331008260 Kohei Yoshiyuki] ". First of a series of 13 photographs. "The Guardian Online."
* [http://www.yossimilogallery.com/artists/kohe_yosh/?show=0#title/ Yossi Milo Gallery, The Park]
*" [http://katoler.cocolog-nifty.com/marketing/2007/12/post_15cf.html Fain-āto no owari to Yoshiyuki Kōhei] ". On Yoshiyuki and his exhibition in New York.
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