Michiko Kon
Posted by Fabio 6 August
Michiko Kon is a renowned Japanese photographer. She took up photography after initially learning woodblock printing. Her still-lifes featuring fish skins, salmon roe, cabbage-stuffed stockings, often in the form of clothes, have been well received both in Japan and abroad. Her photographs are constructed, sharp, with deep blacks and bright whites, and quite humorous. Her early work appeared in the monograph Eat, and in a second monograph, Michiko Kon, Still Lifes, in
, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.
Michiko Kon creates assemblages with a minimalist background, and where biological elements such as sea creatures, plants and insects are in tension between an animate and inanimate reality. Her work is a parade of living creatures turned into inanimate objects, and inanimate objects turned into living creatures. Kon creates surreal still life scenographies, with seductively mundane objects, such as raw sea elements, vegetables and textile in order to get images of impossible pieces.
Kon uses photography as her means of expression because it fixes this process of transformation. In many of her photographs there are numerous elements which were once “alive”. These things are not in fact actually alive, but they are not complete corpses (inanimate matter), either they hang in mid-air in the ambiguous region between life and death. While in the process of dying, they still had the fresh warmth of life: is there truly a differentiation between life and death?. Perhaps our feeling that we must divide these two regions is nothing but a way of making it easier to l
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Kon Michiko
年、神奈川県鎌倉市に生まれる。創形美術学校版画科卒業後、東京写真専門学校にて写真を学ぶ。年の個展「静物」より本格的な作家活動を開始。年、第3回東川賞新人作家賞受賞。年、個展「EAT Recent Works」（フォト・ギャラリー・インターナショナル［現PGI］、東京、年）にて、第16回木村伊兵衛写真賞を受賞。国内外で個展を多数開催、グループ展にも多数参加。東京国立近代美術館、東京都写真美術館、シカゴ美術館、ヒューストン美術館、ヴァン・ゴッホ美術館などに作品が収蔵されている。
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《タコ＋メロン》 年
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©Michiko Kon, Courtesy of PGI《鮭＋鰈＋ハイヒール》 年
写真：今 道子
©Michiko Kon, Courtesy of PGI
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Michiko Kon
Michiko Kon
Michiko Kon (&#; &#; &#;, Kon Michiko ? , nacido en ) es una fotógrafa japonesa .
Estudios y biografía
Michiko Kon estudió durante dos años en el Tokyo Photographic College.
La década posterior al , Michiko Kon dejó en suspenso su carrera como fotógrafa para cuidar de su anciana madre.
Temas y estilos
En sus fotografías, generalmente en blanco y negro, influenciadas por el surrealismo , Michiko Kon asocia comida y objetos o ropa en naturalezas muertas .
Algunos comentaristas han visto este aspecto de su trabajo como una crítica a la sociedad de consumo y la atmósfera de la economía de burbujas que reinaba en Japón en las décadas de y Esta interpretación sorprendió al fotógrafo.
En otras fotografías, Michiko Kon utiliza el principio del collage para colocar objetos inusuales en medio de flores o comida.
Desde , Michiko Kon ha estado integrando viejas fotografías familiares u objetos antiguos japoneses en estas fotografías; juega así con los conceptos de la nostalgia y promueve un diá
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