Here’s our guide to the gloomiest and most brooding of genres. Its tales shock you out of your everyday experiences - but they’re so uncannily enthralling you may well wish to remain in their realms of fright forever. Haunted houses, dark romances, shadowy corridors, windswept moors… Gothic literature has everything you could ever want in a tale of terror. The Photo(o)lia blog features daily selections from 10×10 Online.A Guide to Gothic Literature: The Top 10 Books You Have to Read

(Runs concurrently with the New York Art Book Fair and is located across the street from MoMA PS1.)Ĭlick here for a complete list of all 10 Reading Room Specialists To see these books in person, please visit the 10×10 Japanese Photobooks Reading RoomĢ4-20 Jackson Avenue, 3rd Floor, Long Island City He curates the on-going exhibition “Contemporary Japanese Photobooks,” originating at Le Bal, Paris (2011) and most recently traveling to the Photographers’ Gallery, London (2012). He is the co-author of Japanese Photobooks of the 1960s & 70s. Ivan Vartanian is an independent author, editor, curator, and producer based in Tokyo since 1997. View images for this selection on Pinterest Katsumi Watanabe, Gangs of Kabukicho (New York: PPP Editions, 2006) Masayuki Yoshinaga, Gothic & Lolita (London: Phaidon, 2007) Koji Onaka, Tokyo Candy Box (Tokyo: Wides Shuppan, Co., 2001) Ryudai Takano, Kasubaba (Tokyo: Daiwa Press, 2011) Kazuyoshi Usui, Showa 88 (Tokyo: Zen Foto Gallery, 2011) Makoto Azuma (flower works) and Shunsuke Shiinoki (photographs), Encyclopedia of Flowers (Kyoto: Seigensha Art Publishing, 2012) Issei Suda, Waga Tokyo 100 (Tokyo: Nikkor Club, 1979) Nobuyoshi Araki, Tokyo Lucky Hole (Cologne: Taschen, 2005) Takashi Homma, Tokyo Suburbia (iPad version, 2012) Ivan Vartanian‘s 10×10 Reading Room Selection:ĭaido Moriyama, TKY (Tokyo: Goliga and New York: Aperture, 2011) Apart from which, Tokyo as motif and theme is such an overbearing presence in photography from Japan that as a locus of ideas and sensibility is a topic ripe for further exploration. It has morphed from being one city in Japan to become a prototype for what a city represents, both good and bad: hybridization, proliferation, disassociation from one’s heritage, change, hyperactivity, jarring, disorienting. Tokyo is a cauldron of ideas, identities, and cultures in a state of clash and mixture. Join the discussion on 10×10 Japanese photobooks here.Ībout Ivan Vartanian‘s Selection for the 10×10 Reading Room: Reading room and online contributors have each been asked to suggest 10 Japanese photobooks for a total of 100 photobooks in the reading room and an additional 100 books online: 10×10 (x2).

As part of 10×10 Japanese Photobooks, a pop-up reading room of 100 Japanese photobooks at the ICP-Bard MFA Studios from September 28-30, 2012 and an online resource space at Photo(o)lia, Monsters & Madonnas features one 10×10 reading room specialist per day.

Gothic & Lolita by Masayuki Yoshinaga