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'...whether I am interested in 'the ordinary' encountered on my travels or 'the ordinary' in my everyday life, the camera revealed to me, with absolute objectivity, the ordinary outside my own existence.' -- Issei Suda1

ISSEI SUDA

Miura Peninsula, Kanagawa Prefecture from Fushi Kaden, 2 June 1975

Details

ISSEI SUDA
Miura Peninsula, Kanagawa Prefecture from Fushi Kaden, 2 June 1975
gelatin silver print
signed in Japanese in pencil on verso
8½ x 8½in. (21.5 x 21.5cm.)

Provenance

From the artist;
acquired by the present owner, 2000.

Literature

Suda, Fushi Kaden, Asahi Sonorama, 1978, pl.57; Eleven Photographers in Japan 1965-75, Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Art, 1989, p.116; Tucker et al., The History of Japanese Photography, Yale/The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2003, p.258, pl.178.

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VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 15% on the buyer's premium

Lot Essay

This image of a head-less snake writhing upwards along a wooden wall of a shrine was taken by Suda moments after he had encountered a couple of children teasing the snake and had set it free.

1 Shashin-toshi Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, 1995.

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