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Lot 85 JAPANESE PHOTOGRAPHY SINCE 1960
Just when it seems that everything has been photographed, in every possible way, along comes a photographer whose work is so original that the medium is renewed. Such a photographer is Rinko Kawauchi, who makes simple, lyrical pictures, so fresh and unusual that they are difficult to describe or classify.
MARTIN PARR & GERRY BADGER from The Photobook
Just when it seems that everything has been photographed, in every possible way, along comes a photographer whose work is so original that the medium is renewed. Such a photographer is Rinko Kawauchi, who makes simple, lyrical pictures, so fresh and unusual that they are difficult to describe or classify.
MARTIN PARR & GERRY BADGER from The Photobook
KAWAUCHI RINKO (b.1972)
Untitled from 'Aila', 2004
Closed15 May 2008
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GBP 9,375
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This print is number 5 from the sold-out edition of 6.
Kawauchi's work has garnered international acclaim. Widely admired for her lyrical images, Kawauchi transforms the ordinary into dream-like photographs tinged with nostalgia and melancholy. For her series Aila [Family], she focuses on nature's fleeting beauty, the subjects of creation and destruction, of life and death.
Kawauchi's work has garnered international acclaim. Widely admired for her lyrical images, Kawauchi transforms the ordinary into dream-like photographs tinged with nostalgia and melancholy. For her series Aila [Family], she focuses on nature's fleeting beauty, the subjects of creation and destruction, of life and death.