Image No. 8: Photograph of the Family at Sea
- Date:
- 1952
- Medium:
- Woodblock and paper print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Art Institute of Chicago
"Image No. 8: Photograph of the Family at Sea" of 1952, executed in Onchi's woodblock-and-paper technique, uses the concept of a family photograph as its subject — the image of an image, the print depicting what a photograph would show. This meta-representational approach reflects Onchi's theoretical sophistication: by making a print of a photograph, he interrogated the differences between mechanical and handmade image-making, between the instantaneous capture of a moment and the deliberate construction of a printed impression. The family at sea provided a compositional subject that combined human scale with the vast expanse of ocean.
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Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Image No. 8: Photograph of the Family at Sea was created by Onchi Koshiro (恩地孝四郎) in 1952.
Image No. 8: Photograph of the Family at Sea depicts seascapes.
