
Mount Fuji
Koyo Okada's "Mount Fuji" comprises four gelatin silver prints created around 1955, capturing Japan's iconic mountain through the modernist lens of postwar photography. The series demonstrates Okada's sophisticated use of the photographic medium to explore themes of natural monumentality and cultural identity during a period of significant artistic experimentation in Japan. Through careful composition and tonal control inherent to the gelatin silver process, Okada transforms the familiar subject into abstract formal studies of light, shadow, and spatial depth.
- Medium
- Four gelatin silver prints, printed circa 1955.
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Phillips
🔨 Auction Lot
Photographs
April 2, 2025
Lot 198
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