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picnic #18
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Masato SetoJapanese Photographer · 1953–present
All works by this person →Moving to Fukushima from the Thai city of Udon Thani, Masato Seto came to Japan in 1960 with his Japanese father and Thai mother. He relocated to Tokyo as a young man and graduated from Tokyo Photography School in 1975. He then served as an assistant to the innovative, subjective photographer Masahisa Fukase until 1982; a debilitating accident suffered by Fukase in 1992 brought Seto back into his
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- 2004
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- Silver-dye bleach print
- Culture
- Japanese
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- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
Scenes captured outdoors, in locations scattered around Tokyo, can be seen in Masato Seto's series *picnic*. Produced between 1996 and 2005, the project depicts the hard-won leisure of local couples escaping the cramped quarters of high-rise living for the scarce green space of public parks. Seto situates his subjects in the detached reality of their own private or public space. He creates what critic Hiro Koike referred to as "invisible rooms"--plots of grass often defined by the customary plastic sheet--in which intimate moments have been openly displayed and captured by the photographer.
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