Patrick Nagatani - "Kosmopolites" Invitation to an exhibition 10/30 - 11/21 Gorgeous photograph on the front by Nagatani.
Image : 6"h x 5"w Mounted on sheet 8 1/2" x 10" . The custom invitation is two sided and the crease is taped closed.
On the sides of the photograph " Kodak Safety Film 6036".
This is quite scarce. This comes out of an internationally recognized printer, well known in the photography world as Ansel Adams printer for nearly 40 years. He also did lithographs for Sam Francis and many others.
Nagatani's work is in over fifty important public collections nationally and internationally. He has received numerous awards and grants including two major National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artist Grants.
Born in Chicago in 1945 to Japanese-American parents Nagatani moved with his family to Los Angeles. As a child he loved making models, a passion that served him later when he built models for Hollywood sci-fi films. He taught photography at colleges in the Los Angeles area. At UCLA Nagatani studied with photographer Robert Heineken who inspired him to construct his own large scale photographic tableaux in front of the camera. Collaborating with the artist Andree Tracey who provided painted portions of the imagery, Nagatani's images from this period portrayed an somnambulistic consumer society living on the edge of obliteration from various disasters: earthquakes, tidal waves, subway crashes, AIDS, and nuclear holocaust.
Nagatani arrived in Albuquerque in 1987 to teach photography at the University of New Mexico. He quickly discerned that the state's nuclear industry was the underbelly of the so-called "Land of Enchantment," and he researched the subject for two years in preparation for his mammoth work, "Nuclear Enchantment" (1991). Using the same creative blend of photography, sculpture, and painting he had developed in Los Angeles, Nagatani built and photographed panoramas, eventually creating forty images, a limited edition portfolio, and a book published by UNM Press.
In the next decade Nagatani produced other comprehensive projects. In the "Japanese-American Concentration Camps" (1995) series he photographically documented what remains of many Japanese internment camps erected in the western United States during World War II. In "Evacuations" (2001) he pushed the "malleable picture space" of the photograph, borrowing techniques from archeological fieldwork to explore ways in which photography creates, recreates, or supports a particular history. Current projects include "Taped Pieces" and "Chromatherapy."
Currently Nagatani is working on various projects in his multi-room studio close to the University of New Mexico.
Nagatani's work is in over fifty important public collections nationally and internationally. He has received numerous awards and grants including two major National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artist Grants.