Video: Photos of girls without faces: paradoxical photo project Mitsuko Nagone (Mitsuko Nagone)
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
About half of humanity will instinctively imagine the most beautiful face ever seen at the words "wonderful girl". Sadly, the correctness of facial features plays a very important, not to say a decisive role in the fate of a woman in the "male" world. A photo project by a Japanese artist became an artistic protest against this state of affairs. Mitsuko Nagone: photos of girls … without a face.
This project is called " I am more than my face"(" I am more than my face "). Its author, a young artist Mitsuko Nagone, currently lives in Tokyo as a professional photographer. One of the main problems of Mitsuko Nagone's creativity is the search for a true person and his true "I" … These searches are still ongoing (and may never end), but the photographer is sure of one thing: a person's personality is not his face.
And with what ingenuity the heroines of Mitsuko Nagone's photo hide their faces! Contemptuously turning away to the wall, timidly hiding behind a desk, hiding his head in a paper bag (as befits a true anonymous author), covering his face with long hair (as if in the cult Japanese movie "The Ring"). Photo of girls without a face amaze with paradox and courage; perhaps this is some kind of new Japanese view of the world. One way or another, the problem of finding a person has been solved throughout the last century by Japanese literature, from Akutagawa to Kenzaburo Oe and Kobo Abe.
However, isn't this what artists of all genres, times and peoples are doing? And the work of Mitsuko Nagone is also directly related to the topic of women's rights and human rights: her photo of girls without a face - an appeal to treat people (especially women) not as they look; to meet and see off according to the mind, and not according to the clothes. Mitsuko Nagone herself, being a famous photographer and participant in numerous exhibitions in different parts of the world, also does not photograph her face. Whether you share this idea (for example, by taking a picture face down), or condemn it, considering it something like a burqa for women - it's up to you, but there is some healthy grain in photo project Mitsuko Nagonecertainly there is, not to mention a fair amount of creativity.
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