Eikoh Hosoe is a legend in Japanese photography and a great contemporary master.
His single platinum prints in the Ba-ra-Kei and Kamaitachi series are on exhibit for the first time at Galleria Carla Sozzani.
“Photography in general creates opposition between documentation (objectivity) and personal expression (subjectivity).
In my work, I want these two initially opposed conceptions to coexist, I want to blend them in a complementary way.
I imagine a spherical shape such as the Earth, in which the north pole represents objectivity and the south pole subjectivity. I then imagined a traveller, the photographer, who is free to travel over this globe, to explore unknown territories and stop wherever he wants. It is this diversity and freedom that I seek to exalt in my work.
The two series, Ba-ra-Kei dated 1961-62 and Kamaitachi dated 1965-68, are specimens of my concept of ‘subjective documentary’, which I place somewhere between the north and south poles.”
Eikoh Hosoe is a legend in Japanese photography and a great contemporary master.
His single platinum prints in the Ba-ra-Kei and Kamaitachi series are on exhibit for the first time at Galleria Carla Sozzani.
“Photography in general creates opposition between documentation (objectivity) and personal expression (subjectivity).
In my work, I want these two initially opposed conceptions to coexist, I want to blend them in a complementary way.
I imagine a spherical shape such as the Earth, in which the north pole represents objectivity and the south pole subjectivity. I then imagined a traveller, the photographer, who is free to travel over this globe, to explore unknown territories and stop wherever he wants. It is this diversity and freedom that I seek to exalt in my work.
The two series, Ba-ra-Kei dated 1961-62 and Kamaitachi dated 1965-68, are specimens of my concept of ‘subjective documentary’, which I place somewhere between the north and south poles.”