Lieko shiga biography samples
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Much like a plant relies on the soil it grows in, the nutrient it consumes, and the air it breathes, art writing does not and cannot exist in a vacuum. Instead, it arises in a very similar way, with whatever seeds are made to grow being deeply informed by the conditions under which the process takes place. This fact becomes very clear once a reader strays from the milieu s/he is familiar with, which given we’re dealing with language is not as easy as ideally it would be. However many languages someone might be able to read, there are many others s/he will have no access to — and in all likelihood, there is quite a bit of good art writing available that for this reason simply is inaccessible.
This year saw the publication of three books that anyone interested in critical writing about photography might be interested in. They each drive the point I made above home very strongly. They are Tyler Green‘s Carleton Watkins, Mariko Takeuchi‘s Silence and Image, and Taco Hidde Bakker‘s The Photograph That Took the Place of a Mountain.
Carleton Watkins (subtitled Making the West American) is a long overdue biography of this particular photographer. The result of many years of painstaking research by Tyler Green (of Modern Art Notes fame) and r
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In the wake
- Japanese photographers respond to 3/11
In the wake - 'Japanese photographers respond to 3/11'
New York, United States
Takashi Arai (1978); Nobuyoshi Araki (1940); Yishay Garbasz (1970); Ishu Han (1987); [Naoya Hatakeyama] NAOYA (1958); Takashi Homma (1962); Kikuji Kawada (1933); Rinko Kawauchi (1972); Keizō Kitajima (1954); Kōzō Miyoshi (1947); Yasusuke OTA (1958); Masato Seto (1953); Lieko SHIGA (1980); Shimpei Takeda (1982); Masaru Tatsuki (1974); Daisuke Yokota (1983); Tomoko YONEDA (1965);
The Younger Generation
- Contemporary Japanese Photography
The Younger Generation - 'Contemporary Japanese Photography'
Brentwood / Westwood, United States
Lieko SHIGA (1980); Tomoko Sawada (1977); Rinko Kawauchi (1972); Chino Otsuka (1972); Yuki Onodera (1962);
In the wake
- Japanese photographers respond to 3/11