Hatakeyama Naoya
Lime Hills #15318

Lime Hills #15318

© Hatakeyama Naoya, courtesy Taka Ishii Gallery

Lime Hills #15318
Lime Hills #15318
CultureJapanese
Titles
  • Lime Hills #15318
  • from the series Quarry, 1986-91
Date1987, printed 2002
Place depictedJapan
MediumChromogenic print
DimensionsImage: 15 × 12 1/8 in. (38.1 × 30.8 cm)
Sheet: 17 1/4 × 14 1/4 in. (43.8 × 36.2 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Mrs. Clare A. Glassell and the S. I. Morris Photography Endowment
Object number2012.58
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
DescriptionIn the late 1980s, Naoya Hatakeyama began making several related series of photographs that explored the limestone industry in Japan, first in Iwate Prefecture, where he grew up. He photographed the quarries (Lime Hills), the factories where the lime is cut (Lime Works), and the Japanese cities built by the concrete made with the limestone. Through these interlinked projects, Hatakeyama has effectively portrayed the life cycle of Japanese cities via one common material. These early works soon led him to produce the series Blasts, photographs of the explosive moment of blasting the limestone.
Provenance[Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo]; purchased by MFAH, 2012.
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
Inscribed in ink on sheet recto, lower margin: 9/15, Lime Hills #15318 (1987)
Signed in black ink on sheet recto, lower right: Naoya Hatakeyama 2002

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