Susumu Harada: window - scape ... -scape |
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Written by Takeshi HIRATA |
Published: November 14 2008 |
"window -scape ... -scape/susumu harada" (2008), art & river bank, copy right(c) 2008 Susumu Harada and art & river bank "window -scape ... -scape/susumu harada" (2008), art & river bank, copy right(c) 2008 Susumu Harada and art & river bank When we turn on TV today, enormous images are broadcast. We daily receive images sent to a box-shaped video receiver called a television. In our present life, we cannot spend one single day without watching monitors; not just TVs, also PCs and mobile phones. "Images" on TVs and PCs that we unconsciously watch can also be called a form of scenery. "Scenery" does not mean only beautiful nature and disorganized cities. If we can call whatever we see "scenery", displays/images on TV, PCs, mobile phones and LCD monitors in the cities and trains are also "scenery". Perhaps we must be aware that we understand even low-definition cheap images as a form of "scenery". "window - scape" (2008) by Susumu Harada is a photo work. He "took pictures" of this other scenery, images on TV/computers. Images are so defocused that we cannot specify the place or people but only the light blinking. His photos capturing light might be "shooting" in the most fundamental meaning. When William Henry Fox Talbot, who invented photography, took the first photo, the image was vague. However, there was a real world there which the camera surely captured. Despite the vagueness there was “scenery” that he was trying to show us. He investigated photography in the hope of preserving the "light" forever. If we think that providing a record of light is at the root of the photograph, Harada's work can be regarded as the record of the "light". The "light" from the monitors is a closer and more exposed "light" for us than that of the Sun. Susumu Harada's solo exhibition for the first time in two years,
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