Gips Has stock in Germany The medium suits the story—images

The medium suits the story—images hold mystery

a time when the most often cited "first" artist's book also appeared

Jen Kratochvil

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Published in collaboration with Be-Part

Gips Has stock in Germany The medium suits the story—imagesA leg fixed in plaster (gips in Japanese) means a limitation to everyday life that will last for several weeks. Japanese photographer Asako Narahashi had an exhibition planned for the following month when she broke her left pinky toe and had her leg covered in a cast in April of 1991. Not yet having taken enough photographs to cover the walls of the gallery, she decided to document her life with her leg in plaster. [T]he reason I didnt want to look