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400 Polaroids: Nobuyoshi Araki/Daido Moriyama
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Ratio 3 is pleased to present 400 Polaroids, an exhibition of instant-film photographs by Nobuyoshi Araki and Daido Moriyama. For their first joint exhibition in nearly two decades, each artist has contributed two-hundred artworks, each individually enclosed in a custom-fitted display case and presented on narrow shelves throughout the gallery. 400 Polaroids comprises one of the most extensive surveys of Araki’s Polaroids to date, and the first presentation of Moriyama’s Polaroids outside of Japan.
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Four hundred individual artworks, each encased in a custom display, line the walls of Ratio 3, deep in the heart of SF's Mission district. Inside the gallery, two towering 20th-century Japanese photographers conduct an intimate dialogue in pictures, better yet, in Polaroids, a format that has struggled to survive since its parent corporation declared bankruptcy in 2001. Their diaristic conversation includes cityscapes alongside naughty nudes and poetic still-lifes to reveal everyday existence in ever-changing Tokyo.
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