The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 20, 2024
Ming with Sword
2009 (printed 2011)
Image: 50.8 x 67.6 cm (20 x 26 5/8 in.); Framed: 61 x 77.8 cm (24 x 30 5/8 in.)
Sundry Purchase Fund 2017.113
© Anderson & Low
Location: not on view
Description
Manga Dreams captures an Asian street culture in which youths make themselves look like characters in Japanese manga (comics and graphic novels) and anime (animated films). Anderson & Low combined studio portraiture with digital postproduction in Photoshop to allow these individuals to be seen inhabiting the fictional worlds they adore. In these images, art imitates life, while life imitates art.- Anderson, Jonathan, Edwin Low, and Yasufumi Nakamori. Manga Dreams: A Homage to the Manga and Anime Creators and Artists. [London?]: Lucky Panda Press, 2010.Tannenbaum, Barbara. “Beyond Truth: The camera may never lie but the photographer might.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine vol. 59, no. 1 (January/February 2019): 8-9. Reproduced: P. 9.
- Beyond Truth: Photography after the Shutter. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 10-May 26, 2019).
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