This is the exact location where the bar scene was filmed in Lost In Translation!! This is my friend Elin performing in the bar last month at the Park Hyatt in Tokyo. Check out her amazing work.
I love all of my Japanese fans very much.
Lunch with Nakamura-san, my first Japanese photo agent from the seventies in Tokyo last week.
Photo by Joe Takano
I had a lovely lunch last week in Tokyo with my good friends and representatives Masayuki and Isao. Joining us was Mr. Nakamura, my first photo agent in Japan. We discussed how the markets have changed so much over the last three decades. Back in the seventies it was a really big deal to receive a package of color slides and black and white prints of rock stars and celebrities. I would send these packages via airmail as this was even before FedEX! There were only a handful of photographers covering pop culture back then and only a few of us knew the secrets and glory of the Japanese markets. Today, it has all changed. Just too many photos on the market and so few real icons to sell to the magazines. Fascinating.
I saw Santa yesterday in Shibuya!
Thank you Masayuki Asayama, Isao Murayama and Yoshiihiro Ikka for making my exhibition at Tabloid, Tokyo such a great success! The exhibition runs through December 28.
Photo by Masayuki
