Georgia Museum of ArtAtlanta's wonderful #WABE interviewed the artist Kei Ito on his cameraless photography, on view here through July 14.
“When I was starting to make work about nuclear issues, I wondered: How do you capture something that is not in front of you? If the camera is a device that has a lens pointed forward and captures what exists in front of you, how do I capture something that's gone or invisible, like radiation or history or memory?” said artist Kei Ito. Read more in this interview with him:
https://georgiamuseum.org/gmoa_blog/an-interview-with-artist-kei-ito-georgia-museum-of-art/
@epicdemiologist Some neat ones!
"Kei Ito: Staring at the Face of the Sun" (https://georgiamuseum.org/exhibit/kei-ito-staring-at-the-face-of-the-sun/) runs January 27 to July 14 and features some powerful meditations on the international legacies of the Atomic Age through experimental photographic techniques. #KeiIto
Early next year, we'll open an exhibition by the photographer Kei Ito, who makes complex, thoughtful work about the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Here's an interview with him by Lens Scratch.
https://lenscratch.com/2023/09/atomic-reactions-kei-ito/
#GeorgiaMuseumOfArt #KeiIto #LensScratch #MuseumExhibition #Photography
Atomic Reactions: Kei Ito - LENSCRATCH
Kei Ito’s work sears into the conscience, recalling the human toll of atomic war. Ito uses astute metaphors in his installations which embody visible and invisible consequences of the development and use of the bomb. In August 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to ostensibly hasten