Kiichi Asano (Japanese, 1914-1993). Kiichi Asano Portfolio, 1955-1960. 21 gelatin silver prints, printed 2005. Each with... (Total: 21 )

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Kiichi Asano (Japanese, 1914-1993)
Kiichi Asano Portfolio, 1955-1960
21 gelatin silver prints, printed 2005. Each with artist's Japanese credit, title, date and edition 22/100 in ink on an affixed label, verso.
sheet: each 16 x 20 inches (40.6 x 50.8 cm) or the reverse.

PROVENANCE:
Acquired directly from the Estate of Kiichi Asano.

LITERATURE:
K. Asano, Snow Country, Kyoto, Self Published, 1989, for many of the images.

For three years in the 1950s, Kiichi Asano traveled to the Japanese Noto, Echigo, and Tohoku regions to photograph landscapes covered with snow. A resident of temperate Kyoto, where it rarely snows, Asano was fascinated by these wintry landscapes and the people who lived there. Many of the works are reproduced in his book Snow Country, self-published in 1989, whose cover, Himi, a haunting image of an isolated figure pulling a cart through the bleak winter scene, is one of the images in this compelling group.

Images as follows:
Himi, February, 1956
Inazumi, February 1958
Liyama, March 1957
Wajima, Morning Market, December 1955
Wajima, February 1956
Morimiyanohara, March 1957
Matsunoyama, January 1957
Tokamachi, January 1957
Ojiya, January 1957
Innai, February 1958
Yokote Bonten Festival, February 1958
Oga Namahage Observance, February 1960
Yokote, 1958
Innai, February 1958
Tokamachi, January 1957
Tokamachi, 1957
Yokota Bonten Festival, February 1958
Urasa Oshiai Festival, March 1958
Ou Main Line Train, February 1958
Self Portrait, 1957 (only available in this portfolio)


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