Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
- Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
The nihongo|Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography|東京都写真美術館|Tōkyō-to Shashin Bijutsukan is a photography gallery (with cinema) in Meguro-ku, a short walk from Ebisu station in southwest Tokyo.
On its opening in 1990, this was one of the first photography galleries in Japan not to be dedicated to the works of a single photographer. Most of the exhibitions since then have been themed rather than devoted to a single photographer, but shows have been dedicated to Berenice Abbott (1990) and Tadahiko Hayashi (1993–4), and also to living photographers including Martin Parr (2007) and Hiromi Tsuchida (2008).
In order to appeal to children as well as adults, the gallery holds exhibitions of "anime" and video games.
The library of the gallery has a substantial collection of books of photographs.
The museum now (2008) also labels itself "Syabi", pronounced "shabi." [As is common in Japanese, this portmanteau is derived from the first moras of the words "shashin" (photo) and "bijutsu" (art). The use of "sy" rather than "sh" results from romanization in Kunrei or Nihon rather than Hepburn style.]
As of early 2008, there is no entrance charge for the building or its research facilities, but each exhibition has an entrance charge.
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* [http://www.syabi.com/index_eng.shtml Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography] (its own website)
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