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PGI Summer Show 2020 "COLORS"

Jul 21－ Aug 21, 2020
Summer Holiday: Aug 13–16 (appointment only on Aug 11 & 12)
PGI

PGI Summer Show 2020 "COLORS"

Jul 21－ Aug 21, 2020
Summer Holiday: Aug 13–16 (appointment only on Aug 11 & 12)
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  • Reiko Sawamoto
    Nishiochiai, Tokyo, 1980, Chibachrome, printed in 1980, 13x15in
    ©Reiko Sawamoto

  • Osamu James Nakagawa
    a thousand cranes, 2006, archival pigment print, printed in 2009, 15 1/2 x 22in, edition of #1/5
    ©Osamu James Nakagawa

  • Osamu James Nakagawa
    tank, 2006, archival pigment print, printed in 2009, 15 1/2 x 22in, edition of #1/5
    ©Osamu James Nakagawa

  • Osamu James Nakagawa
    gate, 2006, archival pigment print, printed in 2009, 15 1/2 x 22in, edition of #1/5
    ©Osamu James Nakagawa

  • Osamu James Nakagawa
    wall, 2006, archival pigment print, printed in 2009, 15 1/2 x 22in, edition of #1/5
    ©Osamu James Nakagawa

  • Yoshinori Marui
    N26｡ 04' 53", E127｡ 41' 15", 2007, Chromogenic Print, printed in 2008, 16x20in, edition of #1/5
    ©Yoshinori Marui

  • Yoshinori Marui
    N26｡ 05' 20", E127｡ 42' 39", 2006, Chromogenic Print, printed in 2008, 16x20in, edition of #1/5
    ©Yoshinori Marui

  • Yoshinori Marui
    N26｡ 05' 22", E127｡ 43' 10", 2007, Chromogenic Print, printed in 2008, 16x20in, edition of #1/5
    ©Yoshinori Marui

  • Hiroji Kubota
    Pyongyang, North Korea. 1982, Dye Transfer Print, Printed in 1994, 19x22in
    ©Hiroji Kubota / Magnum Photos

  • Richard Misrach
    Detonation Crater, Wendover Air Force Base, Utah, 1989, Chromogenic Print, 20x24in, edition of #1/25
    ©Richard Misrach

  • Richard Misrach
    White Man Contemplating Pyramids, 1989, Chromogenic Print, 20x24in, edition of #23/25
    ©Richard Misrach

  • Cole Weston
    Palo Corona Ranch. 1982, Chromogenic Print, 20x24in
    ©Weston Gallery, Inc.

  • Eliot Porter
    Spruce Trees and Hawkweed, Great Spruce Head Island. 1965, Dye Transfer Print, 15x20in
    © 1990, Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, Bequest of the artist.

  • Eliot Porter
    Ripening Apples, Great Spruce Head Island, 1942, Dye Transfer Print, 15x20in
    © 1990, Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, Bequest of the artist.

  • Olivia Parker
    Four Pears. 1979, Dye Transfer Print, Printed in 1981, 9x11in, edition of #30/30
    ©Olivia Parker

  • Kikuji Kawada
    The Plants Architecture. Tokyo. 1979, Dye Transfer Print, Printed in 1981, 11x16in
    ©Kikuji Kawada

  • Jan Groover
    Still Life with Green Pepper. 1979, Chromogenic Print, Printed in 1981, 16x20in, Edition of #3/3
    ©Jan Groover archives

  • Harry Callahan
    Music Shop, n.d., Dye Transfer Print, 11x14in
    ©Estate of Harry Callahan

  • Harry Callahan
    Detroit, 1951, Dye Transfer Print, 11x14in
    ©Estate of Harry Callahan

  • Harry Callahan
    Typewriter Shop. Chicago, 1949, Dye Transfer Print, 11x14in
    ©Estate of Harry Callahan

  • Harry Callahan
    Chicago, 1952, Dye Transfer Print, 11x14in
    ©Estate of Harry Callahan

  • Harry Callahan
    New York, 1955, Dye Transfer Print, 11x14in
    ©Estate of Harry Callahan

  • Harry Callahan
    Detroit, 1943, Dye Transfer Print, 11x14in
    ©Estate of Harry Callahan

  • Harry Callahan
    Abstraction, n.d, Dye Transfer Print, 11x14in
    ©Estate of Harry Callahan

  • Harry Callahan
    Ireland, 1979, Dye Transfer Print, 11x14in
    ©Estate of Harry Callahan

  • Yuji Hamada
    Mineral #25, 2015, C/M/Y, Digital Polaroid Transfer, Printed in 2015, 182x128mm, Unique
    ©Yuji Hamada

  • Yuji Hamada
    Lomochrome Purple XR 100-400_03, R G B, Chromogenic Print, Printed in 2018, 11x14in, Edition of #2/5
    ©Yuji Hamada

  • Yuji Hamada
    K , Chromogenic Print, Printed in 2019, 11x14in, Edition of #1/3
    ©Yuji Hamada

  • Yasuhiro Ishimoto
    Middle Shoin, right, and the New Goten, left, viewed from the east. Broad Veranda of the Music suite in the middle. 1981, Katsura Villa, Chromogenic Print, Printed in 2002/2003
    ©Kochi Prefecture, Ishimoto Yasuhiro Photo Center

  • Yasuhiro Ishimoto
    Tokonoma in the Main Room of the Shokintei Pavilion, viewed from the north-west. 1981, Katsura Villa, Chromogenic Print, Printed in 2002/2003
    ©Kochi Prefecture, Ishimoto Yasuhiro Photo Center

  • NASA
    Space Walker, A Quarter Century of Space Exploration, Dye Transfer Print, 22x22in, Edition of 17/250
    ©NASA

Artists have a long history of appropriating technological advancements to expand their own means of expression. Photography has particularly close ties to technology and has undergone drastic changes with each new innovation. The daguerreotype was invented in 1839. Nearly 100 years later in the 1940s came the development of color film which, due to limitations in stability and expressivity, didn’t see wide use in art until the 1970s. With the advent of digital cameras and top-of-the-line inkjet printers putting all of those early concerns to rest, many artists have added digital photography to their repertoire.

 

What happens when a photographer who sees the world in grayscale begins using color? Will it bolster their creativity and expand their horizons or simply bewilder them as they watch their images develop ‘in living color?’

Yasuhiro Ishimoto’s monochrome magnum opus Katsura Rikyū (Katsura Villa) was created between 1953 and 1954. In 1983, he released the follow-up Katsura Rikyū: Kūkan to Katachi (Katsura Villa: Space and Form) [Iwanami Shoten] consisting of color photos taken in 1981. This exhibition features these color photographs along with exquisite abstractions made by Harry Callahan during the 1940s, NASA’s images of outer space and many other incredible expressions of color.

 

Harry Callahan

Jan Groover

Yuji Hamada

Yasuhiro Ishimoto

Kikuji Kawada

Hiroji Kubota

Yoshinori Marui

 

 

Richard Misrach

Osamu James Nakagawa

NASA

Olivia Parker

Eliot Porter

Reiko Sawamoto

Cole Weston

 

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