Michiko Kon

Posted by Fabio 6 August 2012

Michiko Kon is a renowned Japanese photographer. She took up photography after initially learning woodblock printing. Her still-lifes featuring fish skins, salmon roe, cabbage-stuffed stockings, often in the form of clothes, have been well received both in Japan and abroad. Her photographs are constructed, sharp, with deep blacks and bright whites, and quite humorous. Her early work appeared in the 1987 monograph Eat, and in a second monograph, Michiko Kon, Still Lifes, in 1997.