Special Exhibitions

Masumi Hayashi: Photographs

In this distant, expansive view, the Shore Temple, with its two steep pyramidal towers capped by octagonal domes, commands its setting overlooking the Bay of Bengal. Built during the reign of the Pallava King Rajasimha (ca. 700–728), the structure at Mamallapuram is one of the earliest important temples in southern India (2003, chromogenic process color prints, 82.6 x 121.3 cm, © Masumi Hayashi, courtesy of the artist).
		Masumi Hayashi: Photographs of Indian Temples July 5, 2003 - September 10, 2003 Cleveland photographer Masumi Hayashi creatively responds to the splendor and beauty of ancient Indian temples in her large-scale color photograph collages. These intricate, multi-image panoramas capture the artistic ambition, skill, sensuous form, and layered content of the art of India so evident in this summer’s major exhibition, The Sensuous and the Sacred: Chola Bronzes from South India. Generally excluding people in her images, Hayashi emphasizes architecture and sculpture rather than the role of temples as tourist destinations or active places of worship. Hayashi's Process About Masumi Hayashi