Workshop 1-8 [all published].

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Workshop was the eponymous journal of Workshop Shashin Gakko. This independent photography school taught limited-enrolment classes by its co-founders, Tomatsu Shomei, Moriyama Daido, Araki Nobuyushi, Hosoe Eikoh, Fukase Masahisa, and Yokosuka Noriaki. Each photographer taught a workshop for a period of one year, with a strong emphasis on one-to-one teacher-student relationships. During the first year, Nakahira Takuma and Narahara Ikko also taught two additional two-month courses. The journal actively explored new trends in photography through essays and criticism by members of the group and others. Issue 4 was edited by Araki and was based on the simple theme of 'making photography,' for this issue, he contributed an essay on how to shoot good portraits. Issue 6 was the most controversial issue, published in January 1976, which announced, 'We Will Sell Photographs: An Exhibition of Photographs Selected by Twelve Photographers,' which was issued to accompany an exhibition in February 1976 as an attempt to present photographs as commodities. At that time in Japan, as elsewhere, sales of photographs as works of art were virtually non-existent, and there was some resistance to the idea, most notably from Norio Asaki in Asahi Camera. The Workshop Photography School lasted from April 1974 until March 1976, but one last journal issue was issued in July 1976. This eighth issue featured 'A Roundtable Discussion with Names Withdrawn: Bashing Photography Magazines,' in which the Worksho

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