Paul Graham - Empty Heaven - Scalo 1995
âEmpty Heavenâ â Photographs from Japan 1989â1995 is Paul Grahamâs first museum exhibition in Germany. The work consists of 55 colour photographs taken over the last seven years on numerous visits to the âLand of the Rising Sunâ. The are the result of Paul Grahamâs intensive encounter with Japan, its socio-cultural structures and its history. In these visceral photographs he scrutinizes the scar tissue of contemporary Japanese society. He identifies a collective amnesia still obscuring, decades after the end of WW II, the memory of unconditional surrender and total defeat. At the same time he scrutinizes the benevolent and polite surfaces of Japanese culture that mask the power structures underlying it.
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Paul Graham - Empty Heaven - Scalo 1995
âEmpty Heavenâ â Photographs from Japan 1989â1995 is Paul Grahamâs first museum exhibition in Germany. The work consists of 55 colour photographs taken over the last seven years on numerous visits to the âLand of the Rising Sunâ. The are the result of Paul Grahamâs intensive encounter with Japan, its socio-cultural structures and its history. In these visceral photographs he scrutinizes the scar tissue of contemporary Japanese society. He identifies a collective amnesia still obscuring, decades after the end of WW II, the memory of unconditional surrender and total defeat. At the same time he scrutinizes the benevolent and polite surfaces of Japanese culture that mask the power structures underlying it.
EN/GER - 32.5x24.5cm - hardcover - very good condition
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âEmpty Heavenâ â Photographs from Japan 1989â1995 is Paul Grahamâs first museum exhibition in Germany. The work consists of 55 colour photographs taken over the last seven years on numerous visits to the âLand of the Rising Sunâ. The are the result of Paul Grahamâs intensive encounter with Japan, its socio-cultural structures and its history. In these visceral photographs he scrutinizes the scar tissue of contemporary Japanese society. He identifies a collective amnesia still obscuring, decades after the end of WW II, the memory of unconditional surrender and total defeat. At the same time he scrutinizes the benevolent and polite surfaces of Japanese culture that mask the power structures underlying it.
EN/GER - 32.5x24.5cm - hardcover - very good condition
