Celebrating 100 Years of Leica’s Photographic Culture
Commemorating 100 years of Leica, Spiral Garden in Omotesando will hold an exhibition that captures the German camera brand’s history and photographic culture. In the gallery’s spacious carpeted atrium, visitors can find a lineup of rare and special edition Leica cameras from past to present, as well as a 100 photographs curated by Karin Rehn-Kaufmann (president and art director Leica Gallery International).
©︎ Shoji Ueda, courtesy of Spiral / Leica
Another highlight is a visual dialogue between photographer Shoji Ueda and singer-songwriter Masaharu Fukuyama. Widely regarded as one of Japan’s master photographers, Ueda gained much acclaim for his dreamlike Sand Dune landscape series set in his home prefecture, Tottori. His staged compositions also stood out for their painterly execution and whimsy during a Japanese photography’s post-war period of social realism. Fukuyama, who regards Ueda as his mentor, will display his photography alongside Ueda’s for the first time.
Visitors can also look forward to Leica Hall of Fame Award-winning works by photographers from around the world, from the years 2011–2024.
