Ryuji Miyamoto "Kobe"
Amador Gallery
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5:46 am, January 17, 1995. An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.2 originating from a point twenty kilometers below Awajishima Island in southern Hyogo Prefecture struck the city of Kobe and its vicinity. It shook the earth for a mere 15 seconds, enough to kill 5,000 people and destroy more than 100,000 homes and other structures. In the aftermath of the quake, the city caught fire, laying waste to an area of 1,043,000 square meters. Ryuji Miyamoto's photographs show Kobe as it was just after the earthquake. Both in their overall aspect and in their finer details they give some idea of the magnitude of the force that assailed Kobe's buildings and of the way that whole districts were destroyed. Frozen between their previous state of inactness and their soon to be complete demolition, Miyamoto gives us a look at the fallibility of the built form.
[Image: Ryuji Miyamoto "San-no-miya, Kobe" (1995) gelatin silver print 24 x 20 in.]
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from March 09, 2010 to May 08, 2010