Kara / Junichi Takahashi:HITOGATAMI-memendolls |
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Published: May 19 2009 |
KARA (doll) / Junichi TAKAHASHI (photo) "twin: Agyu" (Photo) size:118cmx85cm, camera: canon 1 Ds Mark2, print:FUJIFILM Laser Graphic Print, year: 2006 (doll) size:120cm, media: stone dust (stone clay), person hair and oil coloring, year: 2004 copy right(c) KARA / Junichi TAKAHASHI Kara (doll artist) Kara, a doll artist, was born in Narita, Chiba, in 1977. While she had pursued a career as a painter, she had held a strong desire to “have a wife”, which grew stronger. At around 2001, when she ended her painting career to start creating dolls on her own, she had a mysterious experience. Dolls which she was to create later appeared in front of her, saying “Bring us to life”. After she completed her “wife”, she started to create dolls from her sketches that have been continued till present. Junichi Takahashi (photographer) Born in Niigata, Japan Studied under photographer Yoshihiro Tatsuki 1988 Become a free-lance photographer 1989 Based in New York City 2004 Established offices in Tokyo and New York Takahashi takes mainly portraits and also widely ranged photography such as, advertisement, music, beauty, and publications. From 1995, he became an official photographer of STOMP, and he shoots CD Jackets and publications of famous musicians as examples of Jennifer Lopez, Maxwell, Baby Face, and Marc Anthony. In February 2002, he joined Ryuichi Sakamoto’s project “Elephantism” in Kenya. Recently, he took visual images for posters of "Turan Dot", choreographed by Amon Miyamoto, and he alsos shot advertisement photographs of Johnson & Johnson Oneday Acuvue. Since 1955, as his life work, Takahashi has been taking artists’ and residents' portraits of Chelsea hotel, the most legendary hotel in New York. His shooting trips are in Peru, Nepal, the Republic of South Africa, Ireland, Kenya, England, Turkey, Greece, and etc. His targets expand internationally, and he always keeps traveling around the world. * The text was provided by NODA CONTEMPORARY. |
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