No need to take the plane to go very far. The trip awaits you at the European House of Photography (MEP), in the Marais, in Paris (4th), and takes you to the hidden heart of Tokyo. In the alleys cluttered with electric wires. Among the bar hostesses with false eyelashes and fishnets "made in USA" who starkly underline their sex appeal. Among these light-skinned mixed-race children whose eyes are no longer narrow enough. With these sassy who smoke like locomotives despite their traditional kimono. With these city dwellers who take the metro with their Hollywood brushing, combining island reserve and daring overseas. In short, in this great telescoping of Japanese and American cultures born from the post-war period. Two giants of Japanese photography await you there, patient and recluse like the ghosts of the
Spider's Castle,
by Kurosawa (1957), where Macbeth's predictions hover over the black and white images.
They are exceptional guides to modern Japan.
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