From Rei, Circa 1975
Photography : silver print · 35.3 x 27.9 cm 13.9 x 11 inch · Ready to hang
CHF 2,721
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Photography : Unique artwork
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Dimensions ( cm • inch )
35.3 x 27.9 cm 13.9 x 11 inch Height x Width x Depth
Artwork dimensions including frame
50 x 40 cm 19.7 x 15.7 inch
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For more than five decades, Issei Suda photographed the margins of everyday Japan, the moments where the ordinary turns strange. His early work for Shūji Terayama's Tenjō Sajiki theatre and his landmark series Fushi Kaden (1971–77) established him as one of the defining voices of postwar Japanese photography. Throughout his career, he was drawn to masks, performers, dolls and the uncanny presence of the human figure.
Rei was among his last series. Suda made it quietly over several years in Ginza, where he photographed shop-window mannequins at daybreak, before the city woke. The series was first shown at Akio Nagasawa Gallery in Ginza in 2015 and published the same year as a signed and numbered book in an edition of 600.
The gallery presented it as Suda's most openly sensual work, in which mannequins stand for “the high-water mark of eroticism". In his afterword, Suda describes them rising “from the darkness with their perfect proportions" as dawn breaks, and calls them “a feast for the eyes".
Suda's work is held by the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo, the J. Paul Getty Museum, SFMOMA and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, among others.
The work is coming with a certifcate of authenticity by Akio Nagasawa Gallery
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Suda Issei was born in Tokyo in 1940 and graduated from the Tokyo College of Photography. From 1971, he began freelancing for Asahi Camera, Camera Mainichi, Nippon Camera, Camerart, and other publications. He won the New Artist award from the Photographic Society of Japan in 1976 and in 1983, and the Domon Ken Prize in 1997. The artist managed the Hiranagacho-Bashi Gallery in Tokyo from 1991-1997. Suda exhibited at the Neue Fotografie aus Japan exhibition at the Municipal Museum of Graz, Austria, and in Japan: A Self Portrait at the International Centre of Photography, New York. His works can be found in the public collections of the Tokyo Institute of Polytechnics Tokyo; the Museum fu-Nr Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg; the Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum; the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography; the Higashikawa Culture Gallery in Hokkaido; the Princeton University Art Museum; the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona; the Osaka University of Art; the Miyagi Prefectural Art Museum; and the Paris Museum of Photography.
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