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Kohei Yoshiyuki
吉行耕平 · 吉行耕平
Facts
- Life
- 1946 – 29 January 2022
- Nationality
- Japanese
Style, as we read it
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The Park (1980): Tokyo's parks after midnight, photographed on infrared film with an invisible flash. Couples in the grass and the men who crept up to watch them, the photographer among the watchers.
- Colour
- Black and white infrared.
- Composition
- Figures crouching in bushes, glimpsed, partly hidden.
- Light
- Invisible infrared flash, otherwise total darkness.
- Tone
- Grey, milky, strange tonal reversals of foliage.
- Texture
- Heavy grain, infrared glow, blur.
- Mood
- Voyeuristic, uneasy, surreal.
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