{"id":9089,"date":"2026-06-02T10:15:50","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T10:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angesfinanciers.org\/?p=9089"},"modified":"2026-06-05T15:19:44","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T15:19:44","slug":"eleven-iconic-japanese-houses-seen-through-the-photographers-lens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/angesfinanciers.org\/index.php\/2026\/06\/02\/eleven-iconic-japanese-houses-seen-through-the-photographers-lens\/","title":{"rendered":"Eleven iconic Japanese houses seen “through the photographer’s lens”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In this roundup, author Ari Seligmann spotlights 11 iconic houses<\/a> in Japan<\/a> captured by some of the country’s leading photographers, who are the focus of his latest book,<\/a> Ka Me Ra.<\/span><\/p>\n

The featured homes are among the many landmark buildings featured in Ka Me Ra: Modern Japanese Architecture Through the Photographer’s Lens, which author Seligmann has published with Thames & Hudson<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It is a showcase of the work of nine key architecture photographers in Japan, which Seligmann believes are often overlooked in architectural discourse.<\/p>\n

These are Yoshio Watanabe, Chuji Hirayama, Akio Kawasumi, Osamu Murai, Yukio Futagawa, Tomio Ohashi, Kiyoshi Takai, Shuji Yamada and Mitsumasa Fujitsuka \u2013 a group that he said captures “the emergence of modern architectural photography in the 1920s to contemporary practitioners”.<\/p>\n

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Ari Seligmann has published Ka Me Ra. Photo courtesy of Thames & Hudson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ka Me Ra has been 10 years in the making and reflects Seligmann’s desire to explore the development of Japanese architecture through photography.<\/p>\n

He hopes it can “increase recognition of the roles and power of photography in shaping how we experience and understand architecture”.<\/p>\n

“Having written histories and historiographies of Japanese architecture, I was interested in how the story of the development of Japanese architecture might be told through the photographer’s lens, which is the primary way most people experience and come to understand it,” he told Dezeen.<\/p>\n

“In our image and information-rich world, I hope readers will more regularly consider ‘Why that way? From what perspective, intention or ambition? Through which lens am I looking at a deliberate portrayal of architecture?'”<\/p>\n

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The book showcases the work of nine Japanese architectural photographers. Photo courtesy of Thames & Hudson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the book, each photographer’s background is presented alongside a visual essay of their work, offering a historical overview of the development of architectural photography in Japan. In this roundup, Seligmann offers a snapshot with a look at 11 photos of iconic Japanese houses by seven of the featured photographers.<\/p>\n

He said it is particularly important to highlight the role of the architectural photographer today as we are living “in an age where we can readily document the built environment” and where “the quality of images of architecture” is increasing.<\/p>\n

“For the previous hundred years, or so, covered in this book, image production and dissemination were slower, more deliberate and more controlled,” he explained.<\/p>\n