Reproduced Beautiful Women Series: After "The Start of the Climbing Season" by Ogata Gekko
複写美人（尾形月耕「山開き」より）
- Birth Year
- 1940
- Death Year
- -
- Date
- 2008
- Technique, Material, Format
- silver dye breach print
- Dimension
- 106.0 x 87.0 cm
- Donor name
- Mr. Araki Nobuyoshi
- Category
- Photograph or Moving Image by JapanesePhotographer/Artist
- Inventory Number
- 2009-PHJ-008
This work was created for the Yokohama Museum of Art’s exhibition “Four Views of the Collection of the Yokohama Museum of Art.” Araki Nobuyoshi refers to the act of photographing an existing artwork as “reproducing” it. His act of reproduction creates a separate work that stands on its own, independent of the original. This is one such work, and it is a photograph of a work in the collection of the Yokohama Museum of Art. The original woodblock print is the frontispiece of a literary magazine from almost 100 years ago. A woman is drawn in a certain scene, along with objects that give a sense of the season. Araki photographed her head and enlarged it more than 30 times. As a result, the woman is so vivid it seems she is living here and now, and her rich facial expressions are accentuated.
(YATSUYANAGI Sae)