Embrace #3

Hosoe Eikō, artist

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