Tokyo Photograhic Art Museum - Top Collection : The Illumination of Life by Death : Memento Mori & Photography

Tokyo, Japan, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, 2022. Hardcover. Black and white illustrated wraps with gilt text and tipped in illustration. (9) 10-187 pp. Features many bw some color illustrations. "The TOP Collection exhibition is held to showcase works from the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum's collection. This exhibition explores the theme of Memento mori as we reconsider humans' relationship with death. 'Memento mori,' a Latin phrase meaning 'remember that you will die,' was meant as a reminder that people's daily lives unfolded in the shadow of death. This phrase spread widely through the Christian world of medieval Europe, where it became associated with images depicting skeletons and humans dancing. Its popularity reflected how people in the Middle Ages, enduring hardships including epidemics, wars, and famine, sought to express the unknowable experience of death as a tangible image. By capturing moments our past time, photography likewise makes us aware of how our time alive is limited. Whereas people in medieval times derived positive meaning in life from the recognition of their own mortality through images of death, we may gain a new perspective on how to live by gazing at death as presented within the photographic frame." - Foreword. VG .

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