Kumiko Kotake
1997
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View on museum website →Medium
chromogenic print
Dimensions
image: 74.61 × 60.33 cm (29 3/8 × 23 3/4 in.) sheet: 76.36 × 64.93 cm (30 1/16 × 25 9/16 in.) mount: 92.39 × 76.52 cm (36 3/8 × 30 1/8 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of the Heather and Tony Podesta Collection
Accession Number
2006.159.15
Art Historical Context
Sharon Lockhart’s 1997 chromogenic print *Kumiko Kotake offers a quiet, carefully composed portrait that reflects the artist’s distinctive approach to contemporary photography. Working in the late 199s, Lockhart often explored the boundaries between documentary and staged imagery, inviting viewers to consider the everyday presence of her subjects with unusual attentiveness. The title suggests a personal encounter, yet the image’s measured framing encourages a sense of both intimacy and distance. The choice of chromogenic printing was especially significant at this moment in photographic histo...