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ABOUT THIS WEBSITE<\/h3>\n

It presents the work of Eryck, a French photographer.<\/p>\n

In Praise of Shadows | Eryck <\/h4>\n
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To understand Japanese aesthetics, one must first sit with Tanizaki Jun’ichir\u014d’s In’ei Raisan \u2014 In Praise of Shadows.<\/p>\n

The Japanese do not readily expose what they feel.
\nSexuality was long regarded as something to conceal, yet that concealment gave birth to an eroticism entirely its own.
\nResistance to the nude.
\nAn ease with ambiguity.
\nThese are not contradictions \u2014 they are the residue of centuries, settled into sensibility.<\/p>\n

Photography carries this inheritance.
\nThe emphasis on knowledge, rule, and technical precision produces images that are, without question, beautiful.
\nBut beauty alone is not the question.There is no such thing as a correct photograph. <\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Does something stir beneath the surface?
\nIs there an emotion the frame cannot quite hold?
\nDoes the image ask anything of the person looking?<\/p>\n

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Eryck’s photographs, encountered in Paris, approach these questions from the other direction.
\nHis photographs are unstable \u2014 and that instability is precisely where the beauty lives.
\nHe shoots as though by instinct, reaching past what he knows toward something he cannot name.
\nWhether this is intention or discovery is perhaps not the point.
\nWhat remains is a darkness that cannot be reduced to a single word.
\nThat it draws me in \u2014 perhaps that is simply what it means to see through Japanese eyes. <\/p>\n

Each time I look at his photographs, I find myself returning to a passage by Tanizaki Jun’ichir\u014d: <\/p>\n

“We find beauty not in the thing itself, but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nPromos Japan Co., Ltd.<\/b><\/a> Mariko Akimoto
\n(Studio Tales <\/b><\/a>\/ Human Light Archive <\/b><\/a>\/ Coligny Human Light<\/b><\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ABOUT THIS WEBSITE It presents the work of Eryck, a French photographer. In Praise of Shadows | Eryck To understand Japanese aesthetics, one must first sit with Tanizaki Jun’ichir\u014d’s In’ei Raisan \u2014 In Praise of Shadows. The Japanese do not readily expose what they feel. Sexuality was long regarded as something to conceal, yet that […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-125","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/candy-rose.com\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/candy-rose.com\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/candy-rose.com\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candy-rose.com\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candy-rose.com\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":42,"href":"https:\/\/candy-rose.com\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":981,"href":"https:\/\/candy-rose.com\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/125\/revisions\/981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/candy-rose.com\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}