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Jun Shiraoka's Early Photography: Epiphanies of the Everyday

publication · 2026-04-24

Jun Shiraoka's early photographs often depict indistinct exteriors—a street, a platform—seen through a fogged window where a hand has wiped a porthole-like opening. This gesture creates a window within a window, revealing both the outside and the materiality of transparency: glass, water, reflection, and gray light.

Key facts

  • Jun Shiraoka is a photographer.
  • His early works feature exteriors viewed through fogged windows.
  • A hand-wiped opening creates a secondary window effect.
  • The photographs emphasize transparency as material: glass, water, reflection, light.
  • The source is an article from artpress dated September 1, 1986.

Entities

Artists

  • Jun Shiraoka

Institutions

  • artpress

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