TAB Event - Michiko Kon "Platinum Print Collection"

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At Photo Gallery International
Media: Photography

Renowned photographer Michiko Kon first creates unique objects out of fish and vegetables, as well as flowers and insects, then photographs them and develops the images as gelatin silver prints. Various objects that emerge out of her fertile imagination appear on monochrome printing paper, an incomparably beautiful world created out of opposing elements such as light and shadow, life and death, imagination and reality.

Kon has been making black and white photographs since the late 1970s, while also making color work on and off since 1994. Her "black and white" world of photography has expanded to "red and black" and "blue and black"; and since 2001, her focus has turned to color photography.

The prints on view at this exhibition make up a selection of her masterpieces, including "Yellowtail and Hat," "Octopus and Melon," as well as "Sunflower and Sardines," which were recently printed using the platinum printing process. Granted a new lease of life through this process, these photographs have come to look more elegant with a lithograph-like texture. Kon created these new "still-life photographs" through her keen sense for and attentiveness to surface and materials.

Around 15 platinum prints carefully selected from Kon's oeuvre from 1979 to the present are on display.

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