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Yuki Onodera: Transvest [SIGNED]

Publisher: Tucson, Arizona: Nazraeli Press, in association with The Joy of Giving Something, Inc. (JGS), 2004
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 159005086X
Condition: New / New
Item #: 101435

$95.00

Specifics

First edition, first and only printing. Signed in black ink on the title page by Onodera. Hardcover. Fine black linen cloth with title blind-stamped on front cover and spine, with photographically illustrated dust jacket. Photographs and text by Yuki Onodera. Essay by Dana Friis-Hansen. Unpaginated, with 35 black and white plates, beautifully printed by Oceanic Graphic Productions, China. 16-3/4 x 13-1/2 inches. This first printing was limited to 1000 copies.

Condition

New in publisher's shrink-wrap (slit open for signature).

Description

From the publisher: "Yuki Onodera has, variously, used transformation and intervention techniques, straight photography (of scenes she set up herself), found photographs, and digital photomontage, the links between them being intellectual rather than visual. For Transvest, the artist has made montages not only from images she has taken herself but also from newspapers, magazines, video and other media, using both traditional cut-and-paste methods and the more sophisticated digital technology. Her silhouettes, made from magazine clippings, stiffened and set upon a glass platform, are instantly recognizable -- the soldier, the scuba diver, the tap dancer, the mother and child. Onodera has selected the shapes of the figures for their evocative capacity and the sense of déjà-vu they convey. We are sure we know what is there, but still must conjure up the details for ourselves. Alongside these stark and stylish figures are more complex pictures; scenes that include the ripple of a lake's surface, night-time at a harbor, mountain slopes, ruined buildings, indeterminate animals -- a range of subjects of disproportionate size collected together and placed on a surface of darkness. As with the silhouettes, the closer you look, the more you see -- both on the page and in the imagination."