Magic Garden, Aichi-ken, Japan
Artist: Linda Butler (American, born 1947)
Date: 1987
Dimensions:
Image: 18 1/2 x 14 5/8 in. (47 x 37.2 cm);
Sheet: 19 13/16 x 15 13/16 in. (50.4 x 40.2 cm)
Medium: Gelatin-silver print
Classification: Photographs
Credit Line: Frederick B. and Kate L. Shoemaker Fund
Object number: 1990.16
Label Text:
In 1986 Linda Butler began a photographic exploration of the Japanese islands of Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu, documenting the material culture, landscape, and people. A selection of her images, Rural Japan: Radiance of the Ordinary, was published by the Smithsonian Institution Press in 1992.
At the time of the photo’s publication Linda Butler wrote, “This two-hundred-year-old garden is located outside a private home in the historic river town of Tsushima. Unfortunately, this plot of land will be covered with concrete when a highway is built connecting Tsushima and Nagoya. When community members protested, the city agreed to move the house and the entire garden to another site.”
In 1986 Linda Butler began a photographic exploration of the Japanese islands of Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu, documenting the material culture, landscape, and people. A selection of her images, Rural Japan: Radiance of the Ordinary, was published by the Smithsonian Institution Press in 1992.
At the time of the photo’s publication Linda Butler wrote, “This two-hundred-year-old garden is located outside a private home in the historic river town of Tsushima. Unfortunately, this plot of land will be covered with concrete when a highway is built connecting Tsushima and Nagoya. When community members protested, the city agreed to move the house and the entire garden to another site.”
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