Publisher/宮城県美術館

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This book is a collection of catalog works published at the exhibition "Commonscapes: Photography Today, Views of the Everyday" held at the Miyagi Museum of Art in 2004. What is the essence of the new world that can be seen by "capturing the ordinary things of everyday life as they are"? Focusing on the fact that monochrome tends to be more symbolic and poetic, while color is a real and prose expression that conveys color, light, temperature, air feeling, etc. more realistically. However, it is also interesting that this exhibition dares to focus on color works. Beginning with the introduction of the work of pioneer William Eggleston who captured ordinary everyday life with color photographs, Honma Takashi who captured everyday life in the suburbs, and in recent years reevaluation has progressed, thoroughly thorough the scenery that most people do not pay attention to We are picking up Yoshiko Seino, Seiichi Furuya, Rika Noguchi, Kyoji Takahashi, Takashi Yasumura, and Heiner Schilling, who have found a new world by paying close attention to them.