Journeys by Tamiko Nishimura

Dashwood Books co-publication with Alison Bradley Projects accompanies the exhibition Tamiko Nishimura: Journeys curated by Pauline Vermare on view at Alison Bradley Projects, 526 West 26th Street, New York April 25th now extended through June 26th.   Tamiko Nishimura (Born in Tokyo, 1948) graduated from Tokyo College of Photography (now Tokyo Visual Arts) in 1969. She emerged as part of the vibrant Japanese avant-garde scene in the early 1970s.  Over the years, her work—largely based on her own journeys and experiences in Japan and abroad—conveys both a personal and beautifully theatrical perspective on the world. Nishimura photographs in an instinctive and spontaneous way. Her visual language is poetic, spiritual, and deeply personal. While her stylistic approach to image-making, in contrasted black and white, often blurred, or grainy, is close to some of the artists associated with Provoke, her work is imbued with an introspective and haunting quality that evokes a unique and profou