#Kenta Cobayashi

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Kenta Cobayashi

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Kenta Cobayashi, “Orange Blind, #smudge”, 2016

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© Kenta Cobayashi

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Kenta Cobayashi

These are some views of the Kenta Cobayashi exhibition at agnès b. Galerie Boutique in Aoyama.

Cobayshi and some of the other young photo artists associated with the G/P artbeat publishers are fully of their time and while very different in approach and visual style, are a kind of modern Provoke, interrogating and stretching the boundaries of the medium.

His most recent publication from G/P + abp is Reflex, in which he presents images of contemporary Tokyo (and other cities?) variously reconfigured, rearranged, sliced, diced, and overlaid with sweeping ribbons of elements plucked from the visual milieu, elongated and distorted into new patterns of urban landscapes.

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Kenta Cobayashi's journal

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Kenta Cobayashi

Kenta Cobayashi’s work is characterized by vestigial digital traces applied onto his images via computer software as a painter adorns a canvas, a form of “tagging” that serves as testament to his existence. He views the vast deluge of images coursing through cyberspace to be a turbid stream constituting a new phenomenon for our times. The moment an image is released into the digital void, it reproduces uncontrollably and wholly irrespective of the photographer’s volition. As part of the young generation of digital natives, Cobayashi’s work represents a fundamental grapple with the promulgatory power of the internet, and questions how photographers are to respond.

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kenta cobayashi

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The whole schmear, Kenta Cobayashi 小林健太

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Kenta Cobayashi

ARCHIVE GALLERY

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Kenta Cobayashi 

Buddhism; 90s computer games; Japanese tradition; and photographic theory. These four disparate topics are some of the fundamental concepts that underpin Kenta Cobayashi’s philosophical creative practice. 

The Tokyo-based artist uses photography and film to examine the meaning of truth – a lofty statement, but one that’s quickly borne out by his thought-provoking creations. 

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Major Project 1 - Work Review - 02/12/20

Using the same process as last work review, again we have three module tutors to critique our work and give advice on how to move forward with our work, I will list below the advice I had written down and taken away from this work review, overall I believe this work review was phenomenal and extremely helpful to move forward with my project, I was given praise for improvement which gave me the confidence to be bolder and try different things that can positively affect my work as well as constructive criticism that I can fix or work on in my future shoots to have a great final project.

The notes for this work review are as follows:

Poses too bored - be more dynamic with poses - model looks bored in some images, poses look basic - Look up “The New Black Vanguard” a book that contains bold images and posing made by other creatives in the industry

Symmetry of image/frame

Work with shapes - use model as a sculpture - structuring more, making sculptures with the camera and the model - Look at sculpture and dance for poses and shapes

White background only works well with shapes

Try out colours - black is fine but trying different colours will create more variety in your final images

Work more with model and how the body works or fits in the frame

ECOS of magazine - what makes my magazine different?

Specify difference between zine and magazine in proposal - zine is images, magazine has text

Play with facial expression, more animated face and play with glance and angle of the neck

More directing of model posing and details

Look at designers sketches to see how they shape clothing on sketch and try mimic this in the shoots as this is what the designers had in mind as to what the garment would look like when creating the it

Look at lighting

Details in clothing - wrinkles, lapel, make sure everything is sharp

More creativity - stand out

Use more than other photographs in means of inspiration, you can get inspired from paintings and other artworks, this will also make it more about you as you will determine how it looks in a photograph rather than seeing a photographic reference

Research after work review:

Kenta Cobayashi - shapes, medium and exhibition format

Arielle Bobb-Willis - colour and posing

The New Black Vanguard - photographic book made by creatives

Images referenced most:

[jamescullen]

https://hypebeast.com/2019/8/louis-vuitton-mens-fall-winter-2019-campaign-virgil-abloh-kenta-cobayashi