Takashi Homma - The Narcissistic City contemporary photography

Takashi Homma - The Narcissistic City contemporary photographyMACK 2016 Takashi Homma uses fragments collected in camera obscura constructed in metropolitan areas of Japan and the US to build a city image by image. Homma does not seek to index any particular city but to render a shadow world, a city's unconscious caught in a dark chamber, suspended in the cameras box. The camera obscura offers a repetition, like the reflection shimmering in Narcissuss pool. The narcissistic city is a city transfixed upon its own

Clement’s work invites the viewer to take his place

With a look into the camera and a posture that oscillates between insecurity and impartiality

the reality of rebuilding and enterprise

as well as an extensive essay by the renowned photography historian David Chandler

Winner of the 2016 Prix Elysée

The photographer traveled to the far north of Russia and has spent time in a place that is little known and hardly to be found in guidebooks

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an artist’s book work embedded with the history of the cultural artefacts long-since disassembled and the actions of the artist in walking through time and space

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and a questioning of the ethics and politics involved in the very acts of looking

If political governance was regressing

he is particularly fascinated by chance encounters