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Photographers of Japan Vol.3 "Yu OGATA, ICHIRO OGATA ONO -Dyslexia's picture of the world-"
ICHIRO OGATA's (acting in the name ICHIRO ONO at the time) "Ultra-Baroque" (Published by Shinchosha, 1995) was a collection of photographs with strong impact. It is a series of clear and precise interior photographs of 16th to 19th century Mexican churches, taken with a large format camera. The depiction of excessive interior derives from a kenophobia, a fear of space, thus providing viewers a bizarre visual experience with dizziness. ICHIRO OGATA, born 1960, graduated from the postgraduate course in architecture at Waseda University in 1985. He begun to work as an architect in an architect office, but by then, he has already started to photograph architectures around the world. After setting up his own office in 1990, he mainly photographed churches and colonial architectures in the middle South America. "Ultra-Baroque" is the compilation of these photographs. After 2000, OGATA's interest has broadened to a wider variety of architectures. Like churches in Mexico, OGATA traveled around the world, with his partner Yu OGATA, in search of architectures built in midst of friction between the western and local cultures. The compilation of this search was published with the title "HOUSE" (published by FOIL). There are 6 series of photographs in it, "Namibia/Internal Sand Dunes", "China/Western-Style Villas", "Greece/Dovecotes", "Okinawa/Constructivism", "Mexico/Ultra-Baroque" and "Japan/Samurai Baroque", clearly showing the structure of Yu OGATA and ICHIRO OGATA's works. I am very positive to admit that OGATA's subject, such as a German ghost town half buried in a desert in Namibia, is very unique and interesting, and also, their skill is very well practiced, using 8x10 inch camera perfectly. However, I have never understood the motive behind the creation of these works. This became a lot clearer when I was invited as a guest to their private viewing, "The Photo Exhibition at the House of Tiles" (held on 18th, 19th, 26th and 27th of May 2012). Most shocking thing that I heard was that, ICHIRO OGATA is dyslexic. It is a type of a learning difficulty where one finds difficulty reading long sentences, even though there is no problem in intellectual faculty. When reading a book, he recognises all words on a page at once. When writing a sentence, he can only write a short sentence. OGATA was aware of his difficulty since his childhood, and has been making effort to overcome it. However, it is still a hard work for him to read a book, and requires significantly longer time to produce documents as he needs to cut and paste short sentences on a PC. Dyslexia is caused when a part of a brain different from ordinary is used for reading and writing. In some occasion, this leads to a flowering of extraordinary talents. World famous talents such as Leonardo da Vinci, Albert Einstein, Agatha Christie and Ansel Adams are said to be dyslexic, and I think OGATA also belongs to this lineage. I feel that his unique sense of subject and photographing style comes from this background. When you think about it, camera is similar to a view of dyslexic, as it records views in front of its lens indiscriminately and equally. I believe this is the reason why OGATA is so obsessive on pan focusing in "Ultra-Baroque" and other works by him. It feels like that this image, focused to very small details, shivers and swarms towards me. OGATA has patiently worked towards fixing a dyslexic view of the world through collaboration with his partner, Yu OGATA. I saw his effort has almost been granted in "The Photo Exhibition at the House of Tiles". From here on, I have great expectation that by fusing an architecture and a photography, two areas of his speciality, OGATA can now create larger scale exhibits (installation).
All works listed above are owned by Toki-no-Wasuremono. For inquiry about our collection, please contact us from our inquiry form. BacknumberVol.16 "Ogawa Takayuki (1938 - 2008) − explorer of “shape” through photography"Vol.15 "Kitai Kazuo - Capturing “a scene I once saw…”" Vol.14 "Kazama Kensuke" Vol.13 "Narahara Ikko - Double Vision" Vol.12 "Q Ei and Vol.11 "Fukuhara Shinzo 1883-1948 -- Japanese Landscape Photography" Vol.10 "The city observer’s gaze Akihiko HIRASHIMA (1946~)" Vol.9 "Hitoshi FUGO 1947- -- The unusual world of works which fuses thought and technique" "ETSURO ISHIHARA - THE EXTRAORDINARY GALLERIST WHO TURNED PHOTOGRAPHY TO ART" Vol.8 "Iwata NAKAYAMA (1895-1949)" Vol.7 "KISEI KOBAYASHI (1968-)" Vol.6 "Tamiko NISHIMURA (1948-)" Vol.5 "Shigeo GOCHO (1946-83)" Vol.4 "Shoji UEDA -Locality open to the world-" Vol.3 "Yu OGATA, ICHIRO OGATA ONO -Dyslexia's picture of the world-" Vol.2 "Eikoh Hosoe's theatrical imagination" Vol.1 "maroon" -- Whereabouts of new works by Hiroshi Osaka
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