Visual Materials
Japan series
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- Description
- 30 color photographs made by Gil Garcetti documenting Japanese culture and the role of beauty in everyday life. The images include landscapes, portraits, and street scenes that focus on the intersection between the traditional and modern in Japanese culture. Specific images include gardens, temples, roads and storefronts, still-lifes, and views of individuals wearing traditional kimonos, as well as in modern dress. The images were published in the book "Japan: a reverence for beauty" by Garcetti (Balcony Press, published 2014), and the prints in this set, made in 2015, are identified by the page number on which they appear in the book. Numbers consist of 6, 7, 10, 19, 20, 26, 27b, 30, 32, 35, 37, 51, 52, 56, 57, 58, 64, 65, 66, 67, 78, 80, 82, 94, 96, 107, 109, 117, 118, and 122.
- Production date
- 2015
- Call number
- photCL 565
