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Okinawa 009
2008 · Inkjet print
Image: 151.8 x 50.8 cm (59 3/4 x 20 in.)
Mount: 168.9 x 50.8 cm (66 1/2 x 20 in.)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Osamu James Nakagawa is a Japanese-American photographer. He is known for multiple, cross-cultural series exploring geopolitical landscape, family, memory and personal identity, including his own transnational experience. He initially gained notice as an early digital photographer, however his work has ranged between digital color and black-and-white imagery, and computer-manipulated collage, traditional "straight" photography and large photographic installation. Writers such as curator Anne Wilkes Tucker describe his work as challenging, layered and in a poetic vein, rather than documentary or narrative in nature.
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