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Publication
Yumiko Chiba Associates
Call number
MON.KAO.99
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A collection of Osamu Kanemura's photographs.
'Critics have repeatedly and stereotypically described my photographs by saying that they reveal Tokyo's chaos. They are still saying that, to my amazed disgust, but I have never once had that intention when taking a photograph. Unable to shoot the city
(Abstract from the introductory dialogue by Osamu Kanemura)
'Critics have repeatedly and stereotypically described my photographs by saying that they reveal Tokyo's chaos. They are still saying that, to my amazed disgust, but I have never once had that intention when taking a photograph. Unable to shoot the city
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as a whole, I have tried instead to construct an image one shot and one slice of film at a time. I have no particulat liking for confusion or complexity per se. I feel no nostalgia for the confusion and disorder of scenes that have disappeared. What I shoot are material realitites that cannot be wholly reduced to the discourses of urbanism, culure, or art.'(Abstract from the introductory dialogue by Osamu Kanemura)
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