The life force that infuses the natural world can be an incomprehensible, vast subject. To capture its intangible beauty, the photographer is often forced to find an object that crystallizes or embodies it. Two of the most convenient examples of this are flowers and nudes.
The current exhibition at the Tokyo Photographic Culture Centre focuses on these two mainstays of photography in the largely monochrome work of Imogen Cunningham (1883-1976) and the influential American West Coast School that broke so much new ground.
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| "Oval Nude" (1962) by Ruth Bernard |