Gocho Shigeo
Self and Others 3

Self and Others 3

© Hiroichi Gocho

Self and Others 3
Self and Others 3
ArtistJapanese, 1946–1983
CultureJapanese
Titles
  • Self and Others 3
  • from the series Self and Others
Date1976–1977, printed 1992
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 3 15/16 × 5 7/8 in. (10 × 15 cm)
Sheet: 7 15/16 × 10 in. (20.2 × 25.4 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Meyer Levy Charitable Foundation
Object number2014.689
Current Location
The Nancy and Rich Kinder Building
Gallery 208
On view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
DescriptionPerhaps due to his thoracic vertebral caries, a degenerative bone disease that stunted his height at four feet, three inches, Shigeo Gochō was highly attuned to the connections and distances that could be captured through photographic portraits. His work, particularly his first photobook, Days (1971), produced in collaboration with Masao Sekiguchi, is associated often with konpora photography due to its focus on mundane scenes from everyday life. However, Gochō expressed an interest in daily life not simply as a way to understand the world changing around him but to understand his own relativity. Taken primarily in the suburbs, the portraits in Self and Others are plainly staged, with most of the subjects centered in the frame at some distance from the camera, facing the photographer. Many of Gochō’s subjects are presented in pairs, as in the work shown here, to underscore the differences between “self” and “other.” Whether photographing friends or strangers, Gochō focused on the connection between him and the subject, a connection that oscillated between comfort and discomfort, familiarity and distrust.
ProvenanceMEM Gallery, Tokyo, Japan; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, 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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