Suzuki Kiyoshi
A Man in Cardboard Boxes, Urasaki Tetsuo, Yokohama

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Artist Suzuki Kiyoshi (Japanese, 1943–2000)Japanese, 1943–2000

CultureJapanese

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A Man in Cardboard Boxes, Urasaki Tetsuo, Yokohama
from Mind Games

Date1981

Place depictedYokohama, Japan

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 9 7/8 × 9 3/8 in. (25.1 × 23.8 cm)
Sheet: 11 15/16 × 10 1/16 in. (30.4 × 25.5 cm)
Frame (outer) (ANW EXHIBITION FRAME): 20 5/8 × 16 5/8 × 1 1/4 in. (52.4 × 42.2 × 3.2 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment

Object number2014.719

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Photography

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PHOTOGRAPHS

DescriptionIn the late 1970s, when the nation experienced the oil shock and other economic challenges, Suzuki Kiyoshi continued to explore the lives of those on the margins of society in his later series, finding points of connection to his personal life. Mind Games was inspired by his memory of a circus that he had attended as a child in his hometown. It consists of images of members of a small circus and of a homeless man, Tetsuo Urasaki, who lived in a cardboard house in the photographer’s Yokohama neighborhood. In this image, Urasaki’s gaze, seen through the cardboard-made dwelling, demonstrates Suzuki’s straightforward approach to a photographic subject.
ProvenanceArtist, 1981; artist's widow; Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, 2014
Exhibition History“For A New World to Come: Experiments in Japanese Art and Photography, 1968-1979 Japan,” The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, March 8–July 12, 2015.
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