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Toshio Shibata

Juocho, Hitachi City, Ibaraki Prefecture (C-1103)

2007-2015

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Toshio Shibata

Juocho, Hitachi City, Ibaraki Prefecture (C-1103)

Toshio Shibata

Juocho, Hitachi City, Ibaraki Prefecture (C-1103)

2007-2015

Physical Qualities Chromogenic print, digital exposure, Sheet: 852 × 1052 mm. (33 9/16 × 41 7/16 in.)
Credit Line Julius Levy Memorial Fund
Object Number 2016.110
Using a large-format 8”x10” camera, Shibata seeks out “invisible” elements of infrastructure in the landscape: dams, bridges, walls, and roads. The ambiguity of this image is deliberate: the artist has explained that he tries “to eliminate reality, time, and any sense of specific place.”
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2016; Ibasho Gallery, Antwerp; the artist
Time Frames: Contemporary East Asian Photography

Artist

Toshio Shibata

1948–2000

Japanese, born 1949
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