Monochromatic photographic print of a leafy, slanted, tall tree with large hanging leaves touching the floor. It is split into a 3 by 3 grid.
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Kurita Kōichirō 栗田紘一郎

Weeping Beech V, Southold Long Island, NY

Maker

Kurita Kōichirō 栗田紘一郎 (Japanese, b. 1943 in Manchuria)

Title

Weeping Beech V, Southold Long Island, NY

Year

2008

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Dimensions

86.4 x 67.3 cm (34 x 26 1/2 inches)

Identification

Edition

2/5

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Mary B. Jackson Fund

Object Number

2013.25

Type

Exhibition History

Being and Believing in the Natural World
Perspectives from the Ancient Mediterranean, Asia, and Indigenous North America
Oct 22, 2022 – Jun 04, 2023

Label copy

Like Matsubara Naoko, whose woodcuts are at left, Kurita Kōichirō was moved by the spiritual experience of nature described in Henry David Thoreau’s book Walden. Each photo in this image translates Kurita’s own experience of various details of a woodland landscape on Long Island.

Considering the environmental impact of cutting down a tree to make paper versus sustainably harvesting its bark, Kurita deliberately chose to print this work on handmade gampi      paper, made from mulberry bark.

—WC

America in View
Landscape Photography 1865 to Now
Sep 21, 2012 – Jan 13, 2013

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Tombstone

Kurita Kōichirō 栗田紘一郎 (Japanese, b. 1943 in Manchuria)
Weeping Beech V, Southold Long Island, NY, 2008
Platinum print on gampi paper
86.4 x 67.3 cm (34 x 26 1/2 inches)
Mary B. Jackson Fund 2013.25

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