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Landscapes with a Corpse Statement by Izima Kaoru
"Ideal Death"
No one knows when we are going to die. No one can say a car will never unexpectedly dash into you when you are walking buoyantly down the street, dressing in the latest fashion you just bought yesterday. Who would love that, when fashion is something to make your life more colourful and lively?
However, an aspect of amazement is necessary in fashion.
It is not enough to wear the trend.
You will need more than a makeup with an attitude.
A destroyed look does not work anymore to make people look back at you.
But what if you abruptly fell down and die in the middle of the street?
You will, for sure, be the centre of everyone's attention.
Well, when I imagine something like that, fashion photography is a useful tool.
Fashion photography makes it so much easier to realize something extraordinary.
If it was up to you...
How would you like to die?
Where would you want to be?
What would you like to wear?
Then women become full of imagination..
I want to die, feeling the breeze in a filed full of flowers in bloom.
I want a sudden death in the international airport heading to the catwalk show at Paris Collection.
I would rather die in the trunk carried by my loved man during his journey.
However, an aspect of amazement is necessary in fashion.
It is not enough to wear the trend.
You will need more than a makeup with an attitude.
A destroyed look does not work anymore to make people look back at you.
But what if you abruptly fell down and die in the middle of the street?
You will, for sure, be the centre of everyone's attention.
Well, when I imagine something like that, fashion photography is a useful tool.
Fashion photography makes it so much easier to realize something extraordinary.
If it was up to you...
How would you like to die?
Where would you want to be?
What would you like to wear?
Then women become full of imagination..
I want to die, feeling the breeze in a filed full of flowers in bloom.
I want a sudden death in the international airport heading to the catwalk show at Paris Collection.
I would rather die in the trunk carried by my loved man during his journey.
My question is "how would you like to die?" But when they tell me their stories, I realize they are not talking about death, at all, but they are talking about how they live, how they want to live!
I see. An ideal death is an ideal way to live.
About IZIMA KAORU
Since the 1980s, Izima Kaoru has been active on the front line of advertising and fashion photography in Tokyo,
while simultaneously developing an independent body of artistic work.
Over several decades, he has presented his photographs in numerous exhibitions worldwide. Despite his sustained recognition in European and American museums, galleries, and critical discourse-as well as the high valuation of his works in the international art market—Izima's practice has received comparatively little attention within the Japanese art and photography scenes.
Why has Izima Kaoru's work been embraced so strongly in the West, yet remained largely unrecognized as art in his own country?
To illuminate this question, six key concepts may serve as guiding threads through his oeuvre.
Photography in the Digital Age
Izima's recent series You Are Beautiful expands the boundaries of visual experience through ultra-high-resolution images that surpass the limits of human sight.
In an era when digital retouching and image manipulation have become ubiquitous, Izima reexamines photography's claim to truth and its role in shaping human perception.
"Since its invention, photography has been believed to be a magical medium that captures truth. But today, that belief has become a myth-no one doubts it anymore."
while simultaneously developing an independent body of artistic work.
Over several decades, he has presented his photographs in numerous exhibitions worldwide. Despite his sustained recognition in European and American museums, galleries, and critical discourse-as well as the high valuation of his works in the international art market—Izima's practice has received comparatively little attention within the Japanese art and photography scenes.
Why has Izima Kaoru's work been embraced so strongly in the West, yet remained largely unrecognized as art in his own country?
To illuminate this question, six key concepts may serve as guiding threads through his oeuvre.
Photography in the Digital Age
Izima's recent series You Are Beautiful expands the boundaries of visual experience through ultra-high-resolution images that surpass the limits of human sight.
In an era when digital retouching and image manipulation have become ubiquitous, Izima reexamines photography's claim to truth and its role in shaping human perception.
"Since its invention, photography has been believed to be a magical medium that captures truth. But today, that belief has become a myth-no one doubts it anymore."
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