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Ko-e Issue 16: Images for Tohoku
NOV | DEC 2011
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Highlights:
- Made for Japan
- Siiya Brown 椎谷ブラウン
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Ko-e Issue 15: Tradition
SEP | OCT 2011
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Highlights:
- Arai Takashi: a Daguerreotypical Man
- Miyake Mai: Breaking Bad with Japanese Traditions
- Handling History in a Clay Vessel - Robert Yellin on Japanese pottery
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Ko-e Issue 14: Word
JUL | AUG 2011
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Highlights:
- (Mod)ified Texts: an interview with Craig Mod on the future of publishing
- Ideas Worth Spreading… in Japan: an interview with Patrick Newell of TEDxTokyo
- A Few Words with Fuwa: Fuwa Daisuke on Shibusashirazu Orchestra
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Ko-e Issue 13: The Physical World
MAY | JUN 2011
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Highlights:
- Post 3-11: Japan’s earthquake and tsunami disaster
- Transparent Specimen: aquatic creatures in vivid colors
- The Filmwasters: an analog photography collective
- The Slip & The Barr Brothers: interview and concert photography
Koe #13 (May-June), is mostly comprised of material we were preparing to print on the day the Tohoku earthquake struck, March 11th. Given the uncertainty at the time, we decided to forgo publication for the March-April cycle. We appreciate your understanding.
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Ko-e Issue 12: Roots
JAN | FEB 2011
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Highlights:
- The New Groove 2011: Japan’s jam-band music scene revisited
- Suzuki Sayaka: genuine smile photographer
- Dragon 76: a local live painter with worldwide recognition
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Ko-e Issue 11: Subculture
NOV | DEC 2010
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Highlights:
- Greatly expanded art section (10 pages total!)
- Interview with Japan’s first surf photographer, Yokoyama Taisuke
- Custom car culture in Japan
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Ko-e Issue 10: Legacy
SEP | OCT 2010
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Highlights:
- Sakamoto Ryoma: Is Japan’s modern hero more man or myth?
- Soya Asae: Dimensional paintings alive with light and color Photography
- Hara Hisaji: Reinterpreting Balthus in B&W photography
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Ko-e Issue 9: The Body
JUL | AUG 2010
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Highlights:
- A Requiem for Ohno Kazuo, the guiding spirit of Butoh
- Photography in Iran by Shoji Mitsuhiro
- Diet member Komiyama on anti-smoking laws
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Ko-e Issue 8: Identity
MAY | JUN 2010
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Highlights:
- Interview with Jazz funk saxophone mastermind Motoharu from Soil & “Pimp” Sessions
- Interview with live painters “8g” and “djow” who tour Japan with grassroots and jam-style outdoor music festivals
- Photography workshop program founded by Moriyama Daido and Yoshinaga Masayuki where the focus is on developing personal style
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Ko-e Issue 7: Revival
MAR | APR 2010
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Highlights:
- Feature-length article on Alex Kerr’s foundation in Kyoto that is restoring old buildings to use as cultural revival and education centers
- Interview with a young Noh actor who wants more mainstream appreciation of the art
- interview with and photo spread by Ikeya Tomohide who shoots Butoh dancers underwater
- beautiful art & photography only available in the print version
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Ko-e Issue 6: Countercurrents
JAN | FEB 2010
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Highlights:
- Photo-rich feature on Japanese music with a focus on good live bands; mini features on leading rock and jam bands Nabowa, Dechambo, and Special Others
- interview with and photospread by Hosoe Eikoh, one of Japan’s legendary photographers
- traditional Japanese art motifs reinterpreted by illustrator fooRider
- interview with an Ubifrance director on French craft beer’s entry to Japan
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Ko-e Issue 5: Journeys
NOV | DEC 2009
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Highlights:
- Interviews with Australian Magnum photographer Trent Parke, French photographer Emmanuel Smague, and art-photographer Ola Bell
- Gorgeous photospreads
- Feature on Japan ex-pat writer Alan Booth, including the out-of-print short story, Snow Devils,” translated for the first time into Japanese.
- Two travel sections: NSW Australia & Ise area, Japan
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Ko-e Issue 4: Choice
SEP | OCT 2009
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Highlights:
- Part 2 of the interview with Aileen Mioko Smith
- Interview and photospread with innovative landscape photographer Frank Grisdale
- An essay on Japan’s troubled immigration policy
- Expanded art section
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Ko-e Issue 3: Nurture Your World
JUL | AUG 2009
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Highlights:
- Aileen Mioko Smith: Between Photography and Protest
- The Death of Print: if print dies, do we as well?
- Kirin Beer - a company on the move
- Hakata Gion Yamakasa, Fukuoka’s greatest festival
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Ko-e Issue 2: Restorative Endeavor
MAY | JUN 2009
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Highlights:
- Interview with Soul Flower Union, one of Japan’s most innovative and socially conscious rock bands
- Restorative Justice: victims and perpetrators meeting face to face
- Horimyo, a living legend of irezumi (Japanese tattoos), wants to restore the ancient art
- Interview with Suzuki Shinya, the Pilsner Samurai
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Ko-e Issue 1: Hope
MAR | APR 2009
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Highlights:
- Interview with photographer Herbie Yamaguchi (including his photo gallery of 1980s British music icons)
- Barack Obama: the 6th black president?
- Got Hops? Growing one of beer’s essential ingredients in Japan.
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