Mayumi Hosokura, Transparency is the new mystery

Transparency is the new mystery

Mayumi Hosokura

Publisher
MACK
Year
2016
ISBN
978-1-910164-44-0
Specifications
Silkscreened hardback
23 x 33 cm
60 pages,
22 blackwhite plates

Transparency is the new mystery comprises twenty-two images of nudes and crystals, by Japanese photographer Mayumi Hosokura. The fragile silhouette of a hand, a coiled nude body, or the transfixing symmetry of crystalline minerals are shown in soft, translucent black and white images, held together by an enigmatic interior logic.

"I was prepared for the transformation of the forest – the crystalline tress hanging like icons in those luminous covers, the jewelled casements of the leaves overhead, fused into a lattice of prisms, through which the sun shone in a thousand rainbows, the birds and crocodiles frozen into grotesque postures like heraldic beasts carved from jade and quartz…" - JG Ballard, The Crystal World

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