Hatakeyama Naoya
Lime Hills #15318

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

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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Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

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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