Acclaimed Japanese street fashion photographer Shoichi Aoki is currently exhibiting his work from his Fruits: Tokyo street style series at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney. Until 27 July.
Australian interview with Shoichi Aoki on Radio National explaining how he started Fruits, a Japanese magazine dedicated to documenting street fashion, and later a book of the same name.
Fans of Fruits magazine can order back issues on CD-ROM through the Fruits website.
Street photography in and around Tokyo by Akira Sudoh. There are special galleries for Odaiba, Daikanyama and Harajuku.
George Eastman House provides 148 selected images of nudes, marketplaces, canals, and street life in Paris by prolific turn-of-the-century Parisien photographer Eugene Atget.
Gerald M Panter recently completed a project where he travelled to Paris to retrace Eugene Atget's footsteps and photograph his findings. He also photographed contemporary street scenes in Paris.
Japanese fine art photographer Miwa Yanagi visualises several young women who were asked to imagine what type of woman they would become fifty years from now. The resulting series, My Grandmothers, dedicated to all of the grandmothers of the future, was exhibited at the International Triennale of Contemporary Art in Yokohama in 2001 (via jeansnow.net).
Launched last month, Neon Sight is a new Japanese design portal focusing on contemporary art and design.