is a Japanese photographer.

Biography Hara was born in Toyama in 1967.CV of Mikiko Hara, Third District Gallery. Accessed 1 March 2013.CV of Mikiko Hara, Tosei Gallery. Accessed 1 March 2013. She graduated from Keio University in 1990 with a degree in literature, and then studied at the Tokyo College of Photography until 1996.List of notable graduates , Tokyo College of Photography. Accessed 1 March 2013.

Photography Using a medium-format camera, Hara takes photographs of people she encounters outside, in the train, and so forth. She said "My shooting style is so-called snapshot, so I can say all of my photographs were taken by a mere accident, . . . They are the photographs of somewhere yet nowhere."

Comparing her photography with that of Rinko Kawauchi, Ferdinand Brueggeman writes

Mikiko Hara's photography is poetic as well, but she has a different topic. She talks about distance and isolation of people in public spaces – especially of women.Ferdinand Brueggemann, "Mikiko Hara ", Japan-photo.info, 18 October 2007. Accessed 1 March 2013.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions Is as It. Gallery le Deco (Shibuya, Tokyo), 1996. Agnus Dei. Ginza Nikon Salon (Ginza, Tokyo), 1998. Utsuro no seihō (). Shinjuku Konica Plaza (Shinjuku, Tokyo), 2001. The Third Gallery Aya (Osaka), 2001.Exhibition notice for Utsuro no seihō at Third Gallery Aya , Third Gallery Aya. Accessed 1 March 2013. Hatsugo no shūen (). Guardian Garden (Ginza, Tokyo), July 2004.Exhibition notice for Hatsugo no shūen, Recruit, 2004. Accessed 1 March 2013. Hysteric Thirteen publication exhibition. Place M (Shinjuku, Tokyo), August–September 2005.Exhibition notice for the Hysteric Thirteen show, Place M. Accessed 1 March 2013. Humoresque. Appel (Kyōdō, Tokyo), 2006. Blind Letter. Cohen Amador Gallery (New York), 2007.List of past exhibitions , Amador Gallery. Accessed 1 March 2013. Kumoma no atosaki (). Gallery Tosei (Nakano, Tokyo), May 2008.Exhibition notice for Kumoma no atosaki, Gallery Tosei. Accessed 1 March 2013. Blind Letter. Third District Gallery (Shinjuku, Tokyo), June 2010.Exhibition notice for Blind Letter, Third District Gallery. Accessed 1 March 2013. In the Blink of an Eye 1996-2009. Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery (New York), September-November 2017. Exhibition notice for In the Blink of an Eye 1996-2009, Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery. Accessed 16 October 2018. Kyrie Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery, September - October 2019

Other exhibitions Puraibētorūmu 2: Shin sekai no shashin hyōgen () = Private Room II: Photographs by a New Generation of Women in Japan. Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito (Mito, Ibaraki), April–June 1999.Exhibition notice for Private Room II , Art Tower Mito. Accessed 1 March 2013. Japan: Keramik und Fotografie: Tradition und Gegenwart. Deichtorhallen (Hamburg), January–May 2003.Exhibition notice for Japan: Keramik und Fotografie. Art-in.de. Accessed 1 March 2013. Pingyao International Photography Festival (Pingyao, China), 2004. Nichijō kara no tabi (). Shinjuku Epsite (Shinjuku, Tokyo), November–December 2005. Exhibition notices for 2005, Epsite. Accessed 1 March 2013. Absolutely Private: Contemporary Photography, vol 4 = . Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography (Ebisu, Tokyo), March–April 2006.Exhibition notice for Absolutely Private, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography. Accessed 1 March 2013. A Private History. Fotografisk Center (Copenhagen), September 2007 – January 2008.Exhibition notice for A Private History , Fotografisk Center. Accessed 1 March 2013. Sangyō toshi Kawasaki no ayumi 100-nen (). Kawasaki City Museum (Kawasaki), 2007.飯田克志, 産業都市・川崎の100年の変遷紹介 岡本太郎の作品やポスター、写真など240点, Tokyo Shinbun, 2 September 2007. Reproduced here (Japan Press Network). Accessed 1 March 2013.産業都市・カワサキのあゆみ100年 進化しつづけるモノつくりの街 , Internet Museum. Accessed 1 March 2013. Shashin no genzai, kako, mirai: Shōwa kara kyō made (). Yokohama Civic Art Gallery (Yokohama), December 2009.Exhibition notice for Shashin no genzai, kako, mirai, Yokohama Photo Triangle. Accessed 1 March 2013. Shibui: Six Japanese Photographers 1920s–2000. Stephen Cohen Gallery (Los Angeles), April–June 2009.Exhibition notice for Shibui, Stephen Cohen Gallery. Accessed 1 March 2013. In Focus: Tokyo. J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, California), August–December 2014.Exhibition notice for In Focus: Tokyo, J. Paul Getty Museum. Accessed 9 September 2015.

Collections The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL"Mikiko Hara," Art Institute of Chicago, https://www.artic.edu/collection?q=%22mikiko%20hara%22 Bibliothèque nationale de France (Paris)Entry in the BnF OPAC. Accessed 1 March 2013. Getty Museum

Books Hysteric Thirteen. Tokyo: Hysteric Glamour, 2005. These Are Days. Tokyo: Osiris, 2014. .The publisher's page about These Are Days is here. Change. New York: Gould Collection, 2016. . With a short story by Stephen Dixon, "Change." Edition of 500 copies plus 26 copies with a print.The publisher's page about Change is here.

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References

External links Mikiko Hara's Zeiss Super Ikonta 531 Maria Lokke, "Mikiko Hara's Hysterical Thirteen", New Yorker photo booth, 27 May 2011.