#180

Artist Toshio Yamane (Japanese, born 1953)

Datec. 1986

MediumPhotograph

Dimensions20 × 24 in. (50.8 × 61 cm)

ClassificationsPhotography

Credit LineFound in collection

Object number2021.13.1

Label TextToshio Yamane (山根敏郎, born 1953) is a Japanese photographer known for his depictions of human intervention on the natural environment. Much of Yamane’s work centered on landfill projects in Tokyo Bay that lead to the construction of several aquariums and indoor simulations of seaside environments. "#180" was photographed circa 1986 and depicts the waters around Tokyo being reclaimed for development and overtaken by new construction. In this work, we see life that used to flourish now engulfed in plastic, suggesting that nature is being drained for the use of humans. Yamane uses a perspective that makes us, the viewer, feel as though we are standing in this scene and ourselves complicit in the destruction of the natural environment.

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