Special Exhibitions
Masumi Hayashi: Photographs
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Masumi Hayashi: Photographs |
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About Masumi Hayashi A professor of art at Cleveland State University since 1982, Hayashi has garnered an international reputation for her distinctive style in photographing subjects such as abandoned prisons, epa Superfund sites, and Japanese-American internment camps, with their attendant social and political contexts. In 1996, while in Japan for her exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Photography in Tokyo, she spent a week photographing temples. This was the start of her continuing interest in depicting sites of ancestral worship—ancient and present-day.At the end of 1999, Hayashi made the first of four trips to India with the support of the Ohio Arts Council. She recently completed a four-month tour of India and Nepal funded by a Fulbright Research Fellowship. Meeting many logistical challenges, she has photographed throughout India, propelled by an inquiring mind and an insatiable eye for detail. The resulting images are as expansive and extraordinary as the subjects she has chosen to record. Page 2 of 2 | On the next page: Hayashi's Process |
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