on your body: japanese contemporary photography

Every individual is trapped within the invisible cage that is the social system, very much like the women portrayed in Takahashi Junko's work, gazing at reality, coming to the point of collaspe but then pulling themselves up again. To live in a society as oneself without having to struggle, to be

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able to live in a world of love instaed of having one's body made into a battleground whatever one's age., this is the kind of world that women's consciousnesses have long prepared them for.'

(Abstract from essay by Kasahara Michiko)

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