| Takashi Arai |
National Museum of Nuclear Science & History, Albuquerque, NM
2012/2012
Daguerreotype
in glass mount
2-1/4 x 2-1/4 in. (57 x 57 mm)
Signed, titled and dated on the verso.Takashi Arai first encountered photography while he was a university student of biology. In an effort to trace photography to its origins, he encountered the daguerreotype, and after much trial and error mastered the complex technique. Arai does not see daguerreotype as a nostalgic reproduction of a classical method; instead, he has made it his own personal medium, finding it a reliable device for storing memory that is far better for recording and transmitting interactions with his subjects than modern photography.Arai’s work has appeared in numerous exhibitions, at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Mori Art Museum, the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, among other international venues. In 2016, he received the 41st Kimura Ihei Award for his first monograph "MONUMENTS"(PGI, 2015). Arai is also the winner of Source-Cord Prize, UK, in 2014. His works are held in the collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography and Musée Guimet, among many others.
Price: $1,750 (ref. 14936)