the park

Cette merveilleuse série datant de 1971 signée Kohei Yoshiyuki est pour la première fois présentée sur la côte ouest, elle est le témoignage de rencontres nocturnes et clandestines au coeur du "Chuo Park", où amants et voyeurs se retrouvèrent aux débuts des années 70. La première exposition eut lieu en 1979 à la galerie Komai de Tokyo.

"Before taking those pictures, I visited the park for about six months without shooting them...I just went there to become a friend of the voyeurs. To photograph the voyeurs, I needed to be considered one of them. I behaved like I had the same interest as the voyeurs, but I was equipped with a small camera. My intention was to capture what happened in the parks, so I was not a real "voyeur" like them. But I think, in a way, the act of taking photographs itself is voyeuristic somehow. So I may be a voyeur, because I am a photographer.” Kohei Yoshiyuki.

the park / m+b gallery-los angeles / du 13 Mars au 17 avril