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Masatoshi Naito
内藤正敏 · 内藤正敏
Facts
- Life
- 18 April 1938 – 9 July 2025
- Nationality
- Japanese
Awards
Style, as we read it
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A chemist turned photographer of the spirit world. Baba (1979) is the old women of Tohoku's mountain cults, shot at night with a flash so hard they look like apparitions; Tokyo (1985) did the same to the city.
- Colour
- Black and white.
- Composition
- Faces and figures looming out of black, close and distorted.
- Light
- Direct flash at night, nothing else.
- Tone
- Extreme contrast, white faces in total black.
- Texture
- Grain, flash glare, wrinkles.
- Mood
- Uncanny, ecstatic, haunted.
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