After "Parisian Reflections" of fantastic Parisian landscapes
and painting-like "Still Lives" Pola Museum Annex presents the
third show of Mieko Tadokoro's Pinhole Photography. This time the theme
is the world of a Japanese woman novelist in Meiji Era Ichiyo Higuchi's
work. Mieko Tadokoro has taken pictures of the dwellings and their interiors
concerning Ichiyo Higuchi's life and work with a pinhole camera. She has
photographed in fact not the real architectures but their reduced models
(one twentieth or one tenth), which Hiroshi Miura, craftsman of hinoki,
had reproduced minutely after his careful reading of Ichiyo's novels. Although
we couldn't enter into these miniatues, the photographs taken give us the
illusion of standing inside of them. We present also three miniatures from
the works of Hiroshi Miura, together with fourty photographs of Mieko Tadokoro.
We hope you enjoy the particular expression of pinhole photography which
makes us feel the tones and the warmth of Ichiyo Higuchi's world of litterature.
POLA MUSEUM ANNEX
I have paid much attention to reduced world through my search for "what
cannot do but by pinhole photography". In this context I began photographing
in 1995 miniature parks, which were presented in a show four years ago.
Last year I have seen the works of Hiroshi Miura, master craftsman of Hinoki,
and restarted engaging myself in the reduced world. Thanks to Hiroshi Miura
I could enter into the architectures and take pictures. The microcosm revived
by Hiroshi Miura's masterful techniques and fertile imagination represents
the scenes of Ichiyo Higuchi's novels and the time and space of the lost
Meiji era, which involves not only the precise fittings of the reduced
models but also the dwelling lignt and shadow, Ichiyo Higuchi's life and
the breaths of the women in this era. In order to reflect such a world
in a life-size I needed the infinite depth of field of pinhole photography
and my handmade can camra. I hope you enjoy Ichiyo Higuchi's world revisited
by both two and three dimensional arts.
Mieko Tadokoro
| Lettre de Presentation du Pola Museum Annex |
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Mieko Tadokoro's Pinhole Exhibition
I Want to Meet Ichiyo |
| May 2nd to 29, 2007 |
| Pola Museum Annex Ginza |
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