Maquettes / Light

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Artist Hatakeyama Naoya(Japanese, born 1958)Japanese, born 1958

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

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

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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