Lot 44: Miura Peninsula, Kanagawa Prefecture from Fushi Kaden , 2 June 1975

ISSEI SUDA Miura Peninsula, Kanagawa Prefecture from Fushi Kaden , 2 June 1975 gelatin silver print signed in Japanese in pencil on verso 8½ x 8½in. (21.5 x 21.5cm.)

From the artist;
acquired by the present owner, 2000.

'...whether I am interested in 'the ordinary' encountered on my travels or 'the ordinary' in my everyday life, the camera revealed to me, with absolute objectivity, the ordinary outside my own existence.' -- Issei Suda1

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 17.5% on the buyer's premium.
This image of a head-less snake writhing upwards along a wooden wall of a shrine was taken by Suda moments after he had encountered a couple of children teasing the snake and had set it free.

1 Shashin-toshi Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, 1995.