Urban/Non-Urban B&W Landscapes
Taiji Matsue : Landscapes
Cohen Amador Gallery
Fuller Building
41 East 57th Street, 6th FL.
New York, NY 10021
212 759 6740
Through August 25
"Matsue photographs landscapes from all over the world, flattening them by adopting a distant, non aerial view and eliminating the sky. He then introduces a further layer of homogeneity by printing them in a high-key tonality, so that the individual textures of such features as rock or foliage are ironed out. This produces a landscape devoid of much of its individuality, with no sense of scale or context, so that landscapes situated continents apart look remarkably similar. Only the captions reveal the location of sites so drained of life and atmosphere that we might be looking at a book of moon landscapes."
From The Photobook: A History volume I