Embrace #3, Hosoe Eikō

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Hosoe Eikō, Embrace #3
Hosoe Eikō, Embrace #3
Hosoe Eikō
Embrace #3
1971, Showa period (1926–1989)
Hosoe Eikō
1933–2024
Embrace #3, 1971, Showa period (1926–1989)
Where object was made: Japan
Material/technique: gelatin silver print
Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 12.5 x 8.4 cm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 4 15/16 x 3 5/16 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 14 x 11 in
Credit line: Gift of Connie and Jack Glenn
Accession number: 1986.0235
Not on display
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Exhibition Label: "Japan Re-imagined/Post-war Art," Mar-2008, Kris Ercums The world to which I was abducted under the spell of [Hosoe’s] lens was abnormal, warped, sarcastic, grotesque, savage, and promiscuous… It was, in a sense, the reverse of the world we live in, where our worship of social appearances and our concern for public morality and hygiene create foul filthy sewers winding beneath the surface. Unlike ours, the world to which I was escorted was a weird, repellent city—naked, comic, wretched, cruel, and overdecorative—yet in its underground channels there flowed, inexhaustibly, a pellucid stream of unsullied feeling. ~ Mishima Yukio 三島由紀夫 (1925-1970), preface to Ordeal by Roses, 1982