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Miwa Yanagi
柳美和 · やなぎみわ
Facts
- Life
- born 1967
- Nationality
- Japanese
Style, as we read it
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Elevator Girls (1993–1999) multiplied uniformed young women through glossy, empty department-store spaces; My Grandmothers (2000–) asked young women to imagine themselves fifty years on and built the picture; Fairy Tale turned to black-and-white theatre.
- Colour
- Glossy, cool commercial colour; later stark black and white.
- Composition
- Symmetrical, digitally built, figures repeated.
- Light
- Even, artificial, shadowless.
- Tone
- Clean, polished, medium contrast.
- Texture
- Flawless, digital, constructed.
- Mood
- Uncanny, feminist, theatrical.
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