Yasumasa morimura

Singing Sunflowers by Yasumasa Morimura

Yasumasa Morimura (1951, Osaka, Japan) is a conceptual photographer who takes portraits of himself masterfully masquerading as recognizable subjects, often from Western culture.

Japan’s answer to Cindy Sherman, the artist Yasumasa Morimura is the centre of his first ever institutional solo exhibition in New York – Ego Obscura – at Japan Society Gallery, spanning his 30-year p

Yasumasa Morimura, Mother 1991 photo via Audrey Francis

Yasumasa Morimura (1951, Osaka, Japan) is a conceptual photographer who takes portraits of himself masterfully masquerading as recognizable subjects, often from Western culture.

Yasumasa Morimura (1951, Osaka, Japan) is a conceptual photographer who takes portraits of himself masterfully masquerading as recognizable subjects, often from Western culture.

The Brooklyn Museum is an art museum located in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. At 560,000 square feet, the museum is New York City's second largest in physical size and holds an art collection with roughly 1.5 million works.

Yasumasa Morimura’s ‘Requiem’ series inhabits and reinterprets iconic moments of the 20th century. Composed in four chapters, each of the photographs and films in ‘Requiem’ reperforms a moment when ideological tensions were embalmed on film. ‘Spinning a thread between the ...

Yasumasa Morimura, Michael Jackson, Art basel 2014, Switzerland

Morimura Yasumasa, Psychoborg 22, 1994, Computer-manipulated color photograph