Hiromix
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, better known as Hiromix , is a Japanese photographer and artist.
, one of Japan's best known photographers, for a series of photographs called Seventeen Girl Days. Through her provocative photographs depicting the life from a teenager's perspective, Hiromix became a media sensation and pop cultural icon in Japan.
In 1996, Hiromix published her first book Girls Blue with critical acclaim. In the west, Hiromix became well known with her book Hiromix, edited by the French photography critic Patrick Remy and published by Steidl in 1998. In 2000, Hiromix was awarded the prestigious Kimura Ihei Award
for her book Hiromix Works. To date, Hiromix has published several other photography books that are concerned with identity, community, gender and the everyday. Hiromix is represented by Hiromi Yoshii Gallery in Tokyo.
As a former member of the Japanese band The Clovers, Hiromix also released a music album and continues to work as DJ. Hiromix briefly appears in a TV commercial for a Yves Saint Laurent fragrance called Jazz. The German photographer Wolfgang Tillmans
photographed Hiromix in 1997. Hiromix also has a cameo appearance in the 2003 film Lost in Translation
, directed by Sofia Coppola
.
Biography
Born in 1976, Hiromix rose to fame in Japan after winning the 11th New Cosmos of Photography award, hosted by the photographic manufacturer Canon, in March 1995. Hiromix was nominated by Nobuyoshi ArakiNobuyoshi Araki
is a Japanese photographer and contemporary artist. He is also known by the nickname .-Life and career:Araki was born in Tokyo, studied photography during his college years and then went to work at the advertising agency Dentsu, where he met his future wife, the essayist Yōko Araki...
, one of Japan's best known photographers, for a series of photographs called Seventeen Girl Days. Through her provocative photographs depicting the life from a teenager's perspective, Hiromix became a media sensation and pop cultural icon in Japan.
In 1996, Hiromix published her first book Girls Blue with critical acclaim. In the west, Hiromix became well known with her book Hiromix, edited by the French photography critic Patrick Remy and published by Steidl in 1998. In 2000, Hiromix was awarded the prestigious Kimura Ihei Award
Kimura Ihei Award
The is a Japanese photographic award that attracts the attention of the mass media and book-buyers.The award has been given every year since 1975 by the Asahi Shimbun Company, publisher of Asahi Shimbun and the magazine Asahi Camera, in honor of the photographer Ihei Kimura...
for her book Hiromix Works. To date, Hiromix has published several other photography books that are concerned with identity, community, gender and the everyday. Hiromix is represented by Hiromi Yoshii Gallery in Tokyo.
As a former member of the Japanese band The Clovers, Hiromix also released a music album and continues to work as DJ. Hiromix briefly appears in a TV commercial for a Yves Saint Laurent fragrance called Jazz. The German photographer Wolfgang Tillmans
Wolfgang Tillmans
Wolfgang Tillmans is a German Fine-art photographer and artist. His comprehensive and diverse body of work is distinguished by observation of his surroundings and an ongoing investigation of the photographic medium’s foundations. In 2000, Tillmans was the first photographer and also the first...
photographed Hiromix in 1997. Hiromix also has a cameo appearance in the 2003 film Lost in Translation
Lost in Translation (film)
Lost in Translation is a 2003 American film written and directed by Sofia Coppola; her second feature film after The Virgin Suicides and it stars Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson...
, directed by Sofia Coppola
Sofia Coppola
Sofia Carmina Coppola is an American screenwriter, film director, actress, and producer.In 2003 she received the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Lost in Translation, and became the third woman to be nominated for an Academy Award for Directing...
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External links
- Ono, Philbert. "Hiromix". Japan photoguide. Profile of "one of the most well-known and sensational young female photographers in Japan".
- Romano, Gianni. "Hiromix". PhotoArts Journal.
- Shoji, Kaori, "Young women behind the camera craze in Tokyo". 16 January 1999. An excited portrait of Hiromix as "the grunge baby of the camera world" and Yuriko Takagi as "its high priestess".