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Keiichi Tahara
田原桂一 · 田原桂一
Facts
- Life
- 20 August 1951 – 6 June 2017
- Nationality
- Japanese
Awards
Style, as we read it
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He moved to Paris in 1972 and photographed the light there as if it were a material. Fenêtre (1973–1980) is windows and the hard European daylight that cut through them; Éclats scattered that light into shards.
- Colour
- Black and white, high key against black.
- Composition
- Window frames, beams, edges; abstract geometry of light.
- Light
- Hard sunlight as the subject, deep black around it.
- Tone
- Extreme contrast, pure white and pure black.
- Texture
- Sharp edges, glass, dust in the beam.
- Mood
- Austere, meditative, luminous.
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