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Taiji Matsue
2008

Using digital photography, Japanese photographer Taiji Matsue uses a technique he calls “super trimming” to isolate a portion of a photograph, or a “cell,” as he calls them. These cropped “cells” are enlarged many times, yielding frames at times disorienting, at times humorous, at times abstract. Similar to the film Blow-Up, Matsue creates new meaning by resorting to magnification for clarity.

10.2 × 10.2 in
978-4-903545-35-6
Cell by Taiji Matsue, cover
Surveillance Index
Edition One