Izima Kaoru
Landscape with a Corpse
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Summary
In these days the japanese photographer Izima Kaoru creates a furor in the art market with pictures in which he thematises the beauty of dead.
In his pictures you can discover basic aspects of the japanese culture:
You can find themes like the japanese obsession by fashion, love to nature and the nearly romantic japanese relationship to death.
He asks japanese models and actresses about the imagination of their own dead and directs their ideas in highly aesthetic pictures.
He makes series of the ideas, so that they have a cinematic character.
We met Izima Kaoru during his trip through Germany and could catch some impressions of this photographer.
Comments
Something about the country and the people...
It is nice to be able to watch this film in Japanese. The translation is really well made.
I know many of you think... man this Japanese artists are crazy... the anime, manga stuff... sex, death, violence... but Japan is really an island with a sprit of harmony... and yeah I think (a little bit) because of that they (we) are very fascinated by extrem emotions... but I think Izima Kaoru expresses the japanese feeling of extrems very well ... in an unemotional but expressive way. Death, spirit, hiding emotions... are really a part of Japanese culture. Real Japanese movies don't often show the happy end... it is mostly like... a beautiful way to see someone leave forever... the pain and the beauty of death.
Contemporary Photography
In my works I explore the same theme DEATH but using the disabled DOLLS.
And as the result of my experience you can see the Black and White pictures which are very and very DRAMATIC.