Kikuchi City, Kumamoto Prefecture, Toshio Shibata

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Toshio Shibata, Kikuchi City, Kumamoto Prefecture
Toshio Shibata, Kikuchi City, Kumamoto Prefecture
Toshio Shibata
Kikuchi City, Kumamoto Prefecture
1999
Kikuchi City, Kumamoto Prefecture, 1999
Where object was made: Japan
Material/technique: gelatin silver print
Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 50.48 x 60.64 cm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 19 7/8 x 23 7/8 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 24 x 32 in
Credit line: Museum purchase: Museum of Art Acquisition Fund
Accession number: 2003.0001
Not on display
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Exhibition Label: "Japan Re-imagined/Post-war Art," Mar-2008, Kris Ercums Shibata’s photography maps the encroachment of roads into the mountainous green spaces of the Japanese hinterland. Since 1983, he has exposed the delicate balance between the finite Japanese landscape and the infinite ability of man to impose structure on that landscape through the construction of roads and transportation networks. His elaborate black-and-white compositions record the merging and resulting tension of Japan’s great natural beauty and the craftsmanship of its engineers.