DATE: June 9, 2009
Hiroh Kikai, A Clerk Who Was Letting Her Hair Grow Long (Persona/Asakusa
Portraits), 1987. Courtesy of the Yancey Richardson Gallery, NYCHis subjects, most of whom stand before a featureless temple wall, are wonderfully random: a young girl in traditional dress, a boy in a crude homemade wrestler's mask, a maintenance man in a biker's helmet, a bunny in a cape.
Read the complete review in The New Yorker.
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Review: Hiroh Kikai at Yancey Richardson
Fourteen black-and-white photographs taken in one Tokyo neighborhood between 1974 and 2003 provide a core sample of a portrait project that Kikai continues to pursue after some thirty years on the street.
Hiroh Kikai, A Clerk Who Was Letting Her Hair Grow Long (Persona/Asakusa
Portraits), 1987. Courtesy of the Yancey Richardson Gallery, NYCRead the complete review in The New Yorker.
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