Guido Castagnoli

Castagnoli’s work -Provincial Japan, is available to download from his site and is a very interesting look at Japan form a Western perspective, utilising a very western style reminiscent of the work of the new Topographics and also more contemporary artists such as Joel Sternfeld and Mark Power, but with a more snapshot aesthetic in his representation of colour.  The work is very relevant to mine when looked at in light of Edward Said’s theories of Orientalism and as such will be included in my dissertation in relation to how it represents the East from a Western perspective.

You can look at Castagnoli’s work on his website here: Guido Castagnoli

Thanks to the ever valuable Conscientious blog run by Joerg Colberg for this info which I would have undoubtably missed otherwise.  The web does have its uses afterall…

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