© Osamu James Nakagawa
The Japanese-American photographer Osamu James Nakagawa has just been awarded a Guggenheim fellowship to support his work on the Banta and Gama series. With Banta, Nakagawa explores the scars of the Pacific War opposing Japan to America on the cliffs of the island of Okinawa. I was intrigued by the format (which doesn’t translate well on a screen) and the fact that these seemingly classic landscape photographs have been “digitally-manipulated” (I would be interested to know how).
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I want to let you know that I have a solo exhibition at the Sakima Art Museum in Okinawa from 6/17 -7/20 with entire 21 Banta series images. http://sakima.jp/
I’ve just been looking through James’ portfolio and I must say I prefer ‘Drive-Ins’ to ‘Bantu’:
http://osamujamesnakagawa.com/?images=drive_in
http://www.mocp.org/collections/mpp/nakagawa_osamu_james.php
Both of which are dealing with history in clever ways, often reemphasising certain controversial parts of American/Japanese histories.
Correction: “Osamu James’ work…”