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Kohei Yoshiyuki
Untitled, from the series The Park, Plate 48

1979

About the Item

This work is available in three sizes: 11” x 14” (28 x 35.5 cm) Editions of 10 + 3 Artist's Proofs 16” x 20” (40.5 x 51 cm) Editions of 10 + 3 Artist's Proofs 20” x 24” (51 x 61 cm) Editions of 5 + 2 Artist's Proofs For these photos, taken in Tokyo’s Shinjuku, Yoyogi, and Aoyama parks during the 1970s, Mr. Yoshiyuki used a 35mm camera, infrared film, and flash to document the people who gathered there at night for clandestine trysts, as well as the many spectators lurking in the bushes who watched—and sometimes participated in—these couplings. With their raw, snapshot-like quality, these images not only uncover the hidden sexual exploits of their subjects, both homosexual and heterosexual, also serve as a chronicle of a Japan we rarely see; as Martin Parr writes in The Photobook: A History, Volume II, The Park is “a brilliant piece of social documentation, capturing perfectly the loneliness, sadness, and desperation that so often accompany sexual or human relationships in a big, hard metropolis like Tokyo.”
  • Creator:
    Kohei Yoshiyuki (1946, Japanese)
  • Creation Year:
    1979
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 11 in (27.94 cm)Width: 14 in (35.56 cm)
  • Medium:
  • Period:
  • Condition:
  • Gallery Location:
    New York, NY
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU2201511563

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