Tokyo, JAPAN:  Video portraits and photographs of French actress Isabelle Huppert are dispayed during a press preview of a photo exhibition "Woman of Many Faces" at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, 30 June 2006. Over 100 photographic and video portraits by legendary artists, including Henri Cartier-Bresson, Richard Avedon, Helmut Newton, will be held a montly exhibition until 06 August.  AFP PHOTO/Kazuhiro NOGI    (Photo credit should read KAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP/Getty Images)

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Tokyo's principal photography museum usually holds three different exhibitions at once, drawing on both its extensive collection of Japanese artists and images on loan. Shows may include the history of photography, retrospectives of major artists or surveys of up-and-coming ones.

The museum is at the far end of Yebisu Garden Place, on the right side of the complex if you're coming from Ebisu Station. There's a branch of the excellent art bookshop Nadiff here, too.


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