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By Megan • Dec 3rd, 2007 • Category: News for Creatives (archives)Russel Hart reports for Pop Photo:
Takahiro Kaneyama’s intimate portraiture stands out at the Japan Society’s centennial exhibition.
“American art has long been enriched by the influx of sensibilities from other cultures. Nowhere is this more evident than in current fine-art photography: Immigrant photographers are always bringing new ideas and aesthetics to the medium, sparing it the insularity that can diminish other nations’ art. It certainly helps that perhaps more than any other visual art, photography transcends its immediate culture. Kaneyama’s work stands out. It is visually austere yet vivid, a character that pervades Japanese art. But it manages to reconcile this quality with the detached, observational mode of contemporary American photography, particularly as seen in portraiture.”
Megan is a creative producer at Wise Elephant.
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