http://www.japanexposures.com/2010/07/21/mikiko-hara-from-blind-letter/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mikiko-hara-from-blind-letter a personal introduction to Japanese photography Wed, 01 Feb 2012 02:06:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.japanexposures.com/2010/07/21/mikiko-hara-from-blind-letter/comment-page-1/#comment-2816 Peter Evans Sun, 25 Jul 2010 00:57:47 +0000 http://www.japanexposures.com/2010/07/21/mikiko-hara-from-blind-letter/#comment-2816 It has to be said that her photos also include unsubtle portraits of cats (unless the subtlety is so subtle as to elude me), vegetation, and so on. The best of the book is very good indeed (I bought a copy and am glad I did), but some of it strikes me as mere filler. The ratio of hits to misses (or ho-hums) was higher in her recent Third District Gallery show. A slim, tightly edited new volume of her work would be welcome. It would have to be fairly big and well printed, too: she's an artist of hands and other seemingly minor parts of the composition, in a way that even the Hysteric book sometimes doesn't quite reveal. It has to be said that her photos also include unsubtle portraits of cats (unless the subtlety is so subtle as to elude me), vegetation, and so on. The best of the book is very good indeed (I bought a copy and am glad I did), but some of it strikes me as mere filler. The ratio of hits to misses (or ho-hums) was higher in her recent Third District Gallery show. A slim, tightly edited new volume of her work would be welcome. It would have to be fairly big and well printed, too: she’s an artist of hands and other seemingly minor parts of the composition, in a way that even the Hysteric book sometimes doesn’t quite reveal.

]]> http://www.japanexposures.com/2010/07/21/mikiko-hara-from-blind-letter/comment-page-1/#comment-2811 Joseph Thu, 22 Jul 2010 11:30:35 +0000 http://www.japanexposures.com/2010/07/21/mikiko-hara-from-blind-letter/#comment-2811 Nice work ! Nice work !

]]>