Throughout his career Eikoh Hosoe’s work combines contemporary image making with pre-modern historical ideas and legends. As such, the Japanese photographers work transcends date and time and manages to be both experimental and reverential.
His work is spontaneous, often inspired by poetry written by his contemporary Yukio Mishima or by the work and friendship of dancer Tatsumi Hijikata. Hosoe’s work is consistently pre-occupied with irrationality, erotic obsession and death. Here are seven of his most striking images.
