Hatakeyama Naoya
Maquettes / Light

Maquettes / Light

© Hatakeyama Naoya, courtesy Taka Ishii Gallery

Maquettes / Light
Maquettes / Light
CultureJapanese
Titles
  • Maquettes / Light
Date1995
Place depictedJapan
MediumGelatin silver print with transparency over fluorescent light
DimensionsImage: 8 7/8 × 5 7/8 in. (22.5 × 14.9 cm)
Frame (outer): 17 1/4 × 13 7/8 × 1 3/8 in. (43.8 × 35.2 × 3.5 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Meyer Levy Charitable Foundation
Object number2011.531
Not on view

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Department
Photography
DescriptionNaoya Hatakeyama has a longstanding interest in cities. This photograph was made through layering two distinct prints of the same image in a light box: a black-and-white photographic paper is shown in front, backed by a black-and-white transparency film. As the dark areas of the prints align, their combined density blocks the light shining from behind. But the light areas of the transparency transmit the light passing through, causing the photographic print to glow and providing the illusion of a building at night.
Provenance[Sage, Paris, Paris]; purchased by MFAH, 2011.
Exhibition History“The Will to Architecture,” The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, April 1–July 6, 2014.

"Excavating the Future City: Photographs by Naoya Hatakeyama," Minneapolis Institute of Art, March 4–July 22, 2018.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Label printed with Japanese text affixed to verso of frame/lightbox

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