At last year's Pola Museum Annex Special Exhibition, Mieko
Tadokoro's Pinhole Photo Exhibition, I showed a series of Paris landscapes
and buildings shot in natural light under the title "Another Paris
that no one has ever seen". In this second show, I move the shooting
location to my apartment in Paris, and show the still life photos taken
with a large format (8x10 inch) pinhole camera, using fruits and vegetables
purchased at the market as the subject.
This series is inspired by17th-century still life paintings
made with the help of camera obscura. Because my pinhole photographs were
shot indoors with little light, it took about 30 minutes to expose one
shot, and since there was no viewfinder, the film was developped immedately
after shooting, and the negative was checked one by one before moving on
to the next shot.
The subject and method of shooting are different from the last
show, but this series also takes advantage of the soft delineation and
pan-focus characteristics of pinhole, which are not found in cameras with
lenses. The theme of this exhibition is "What will happen to a still
life drawn with a pinhole, which is neither a lens nor a human eye ?".
Mieko
Tadokoro
Mieko Tadokoro's Pinhole Works
"STILL LIVES" |
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| May 3 to 29, 2006 |
| Pola Museum Annex Ginza |
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