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The Legacy of Issei Suda (1940-2019): Human Memory
January 17 - February 27, 2020

The Legacy of Issei Suda (1940-2019): Human Memory

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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Issei Suda, Gujohachiman, Gifu, 1978, 1978

Issei Suda Japanese, 1940-2019

Gujohachiman, Gifu, 1978, 1978
Gelatin silver print
8 5/8 x 8 3/8 in
21.9 x 21.3 cm
ISS_5281
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Issei Suda (b. 1940 – d. 2019) began his long and celebrated career in 1967 as a stage photographer of avant-garde Japanese theatre. His travels through Japan during the early...
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Issei Suda (b. 1940 – d. 2019) began his long and celebrated career in 1967 as a stage photographer of avant-garde Japanese theatre. His travels through Japan during the early 1970s inspired much of his work at the time and concentrated on street scenes. He discovered the random beauty of textures and patterns in nature, and of ordinary people in their everyday habitat. Throughout his career, Suda demonstrated an innate ability to show people as latent participants existing in the highly charged space between the ordinary and the extraordinary.

Suda described his snapshots of strangers and everyday scenes as a strong reminder of himself, identifying within the gaze of his subjects a very personal connection. He also believes a photographic image, even its fragment, reflects on the human emotions that are woven into everything around us – people, materials, nature, and therefore can reinvigorate a ghost-like ambiguous memory, often disorienting time and place.

This work is the only remaining vintage print.
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Estate of Issei Suda

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"Human Memory" 「人間の記憶」published by Creo, 1996, page 111

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