It is with mixed feelings that we wish to inform you that in the wake of the death of our proprietor Etsuro Ishihara in February, Zeit-Foto Salon will cease activities as a gallery space this coming December. We sincerely wish to thank all of you for your warm and long-lasting support for our gallery during its 38 years of operation since its establishment in 1978.
Although we feel grateful for the various voices expressing regret about Zeit-Foto Salon’s closing, as Ishihara himself stated during his lifetime, the gallery owner entails being unified in both body and soul with the gallery　. Thus, we are shutting this gallery based on the idea that we can no longer call this place “Zeit-Foto Salon” now that Ishihara is not with us anymore.

The idea of selecting just one artist for an exhibition to highlight Zeit-Foto Salon’s Grande Finale was impossible for us. We have held almost 400 exhibitions up to now. The various artists who have spent some time here with Ishihara were like friends to him.
Therefore, we have decided to exhibit all at once the works of over 100 photography artists with connections to Ishihara as the finale for these 38 years. In French, “Le bal” means ‘dance party.’ Using that as a title, we will be dividing the exhibition and works to be displayed into a total of three parts in line with the composition of Bruckner’s “Symphony No.9,” which Ishihara loved: Part 1: Maetoso, Part 2 Scherzo, and Part 3: Adagio cantabile.” Diverse works reflective both of Zeit-Foto Salon’s history and of the history of photography will decorously cover all the walls of the gallery during each period of the exhibition.
Please come to experience first-hand the 38 year history of Zeit-Foto Salon and Etsuro Ishihara’s legacy.

Hommage à Etsuro ISHIHARA


Le bal － Part 1 － maestoso Sep. 3 － Oct. 5

Noe AOKI, Aki LUMI, Eugene ATGET, Miyuki ICHIKAWA, Garry WINOGRAND, Yuji ONO, Yuki ONODERA, Yoshiko KAMIKURA, Luigi GHIRRI, Ihei KIMURA, Masumi KURA, William KLEIN, Andre KERTESZ, Kiyoshi KOISHI, Tatsuro KOTAKI, Norio KOBAYASHI, Hideo KOBAYASHI, Yasuhiro SAKIMA, Tokihiro SATO, Yoichi SANO, Kunie´ SUGIURA, Hiroshi SUGIMOTO, Ryoko SUZUKI, Issei SUDA, Jock Sturges, Maurice TABARD, Akira TANNO, Takuya CHIKUSHI, Hitoshi TUKIJI, Robert DOISNEAU, Asako NARAHASHI, Takanobu HAYASHI, Tadashi HIROSE, Adolphe BRAUN, Robert FRANK, Robert MAPPLETHORPE, Hiroshi YAMAZAKI, Tomizo YOSHIKAWA, Kanendo WATANABE


Le bal － Part 2 － scherzo Oct. 11 － Nov. 12

Yoko ASAKAI, Hiroyuki ARAI, Nobuyoshi ARAKI, Shigeo ANZAI¨, Yasuhiro ISHIMOTO, Yumiko IZU, Hiroshi Osaka, Kiyoji Otsuji, Osamu KANEMURA, Kineo KUWABARA, Sawako GODA, Masao GOZU, Munehisa SAKURADA, Toshio SHIBATA, Noriko SHINDO, Tomio SEIKE, Yuriko TAKAGI, Akihide TAMURA, Akiko TOBU, Masaaki NAKAGAWA, Fumikiyo NAGAMACHI, Tina BARNEY, Shoko HASHIMOTO, Naoya HATAKEYAMA, Fuyuki HATTORI, Bernard FAUCON, Joan FONTCUBERTA, BRASSAI¨, Bill BRANDT, Robert BESANKO, Frank HORVAT, Eikoh HOSOE, Liuming MA, Taiji MATSUE, Michiko MATSUMOTO, Etienne-Jules MAREY, MAN RAY, Midori MITAMURA, Ryuji MIYAMOTO, Yi MO, Nakaji YASUI


Le bal － Part 3 － adagio cantabile Nov. 18 － Dec. 22

Miyako ISHIUCHI, Kenro IZU, Miro ITO, Eiji INA, Shoji UEDA, Yuki URAKAMI, Shigeyoshi OHI, Koji ONAKA, Henri CARTIER-BRESSON, Keizo KITAJIMA, Makiko KOIE, Sadahiro KOIZUMI, Joaquim GOMIS, Mineo SAKATA, Jeanloup Shieff, Jun SHIRAOKA, Kiyoshi SUZUKI, Keiko SOTOKUBO, Ryudai TAKANO, Chotoku TANAKA, Masako TOMIYA, Lyu HANABUSA, Vincent D Feldman, Susan FENTON, Katsuji FUKUDA, Akihiko FUKE, Hitoshi FUGO, Lee Friedlander, Hans Bellmer, WOLS, Eadweard MUYBRIDGE, Daido MORIYAMA, Toshihiro YASHIRO, Tomoko YONEDA, Henri-Victor REGNAULT, RONGRONG&INRI, Osamu WATANABE, Nana WATANABE, Hitomi WATANABE, Ningde WANG