Record, Nada
レコード、灘
- Birth Year
- 1965
- Death Year
- -
- Date
- 1995 (printed in 2005)
- Technique, Material, Format
- gelatin silver print
- Dimension
- 37.0 x 37.0 cm
- Donor name
- Ms. Yoneda Tomoko
- Category
- Photograph or Moving Image by JapanesePhotographer/Artist
- Inventory Number
- 2006-PHJ-007
Buildings with cracks in them, scattered shoe soles, photos, mountains of rubble: these photographs were taken immediately after the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake that occurred on January 17, 1995. Yoneda Tomoko had returned to Hyogo Prefecture, where her family lives, immediately after the quake and taken photos in Kobe City and Awaji Island. She is the kind of artist who usually investigates the history of a location and makes careful plans before taking any photos, but this time she remembers just snapping impulsively. For someone whose work is generally very different to photojournalism, these photos, capturing the scars of the earthquake, felt foreign and so for a long time she did not exhibit them. Their first public showing came in 2005, when she combined them for her exhibition “A Decade After” with photos of the same areas taken 10 years later.
(KIMURA Eriko)
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