NYAB Event - Issei Suda "Vintage Photographs 1970s and 80s"

Issei Suda "Vintage Photographs 1970s and 80s"

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At Higher Pictures
Media: Photography

Higher Pictures presents the first United States solo exhibition by Japanese photographer Issei Suda. This exhibition consists of over twenty vintage photographs that date from 1971 through the 1980s primarily from Suda's best-known monograph "Fûshi Kaden" (1978) and includes works from "Tokyo 100," "Human Memory" and "Minyou Sanga." Suda's complex portraits and street scenes reveal his intense interest in the mysterious side of everyday life and otherworldliness. His first notable book and exhibition "Fûshi Kaden" “transmission of the flower of acting style” is a series based on the fifteenth-century treatise by Zeami on the principles of No theatre. Suda, a devout student of Zeami, translates the treatise in photographs that return to an emotional landscape that predates the rise of cities produced on his trips to remote locations in Japan from 1971–1978. Often Suda’s photographs are suspended in time, either one moment too soon or too late, allowing for an unsettling effect on the viewer. Suda’s fascination continues in photographic scenes remembered from days past and preserved regardless of time. His diverse series include people who dressed up for village festivals, dreamlike landscapes and studies of pattern, texture and beauty.

[Image: Issei Suda "Ginzan Onsen, Yamagata Perfecture" (1976) vintage gelatin silver print 6 1/8 x 6 in.]