TUTTA LA MAESTOSITÀ DELLA MILLENARIA CULTURA INDIANA NELLE
RAFFINATE IMMAGINI DI KENRO IZU
Born in Osaka, Japan, Kenro Izu moved to New York City
in the early 1970s. After discovering the mammoth plate photographs of Egypt by
the British Victorian photographer Francis Frith, he traveled to Egypt in 1979
to photograph the pyramids and other sacred monuments. Izu has since photographed
holy sites in Syria, Jordan, England, Scotland, Mexico, and Easter Island and
has most recently focused his energies on Buddhist and Hindu sites in India,
Cambodia, Burma, Vietnam, Indonesia, and China.
Through his unique technique, Kenro Izu succeeds in
capturing the spiritual essence of the places he photographs. Using a
custom-made, 300-pound camera, he creates negatives that are fourteen inches
high by twenty inches wide. The artist meticulously pores over every image to
remove visual elements he believes are unnecessary. During a three-day process,
the negatives are printed into positive images on hand-coated archival paper.
The resulting platinum palladium prints "are among the most finely crafted
prints ever made in the history of the photographic medium," says
consulting curator for the photography collection Clark Worswick
All images © Kenro Izu
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