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Photo exhibition in NY : The Park, by Kohei Yoshiyuki
photo by Kohei Yoshiyuki
You missed it ? No problem. But should know it : the Yossi Milo Gallery, in NY, just welcome the interesting exhibition, The Park, an exhibition of black-and-white photographs from the 1970s by the Japanese photographer Kohei Yoshiyuki. The exhibition was Yoshiyuki’s first solo exhibition in the United States and his first exhibition since 1980. 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, but also provoke questions about our own attitudes towards surveillance and voyeurism.
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