The Matsue Rule
Taiji Matsue’s photographs of landscapes appear to be paintings for the sheer scale of content—geometric lines of cities and curves of mountains so elegant they could only be fake, except that they’re real.
Text by Nozlee Samadzadeh
Perspective changes everything. Taiji Matsue’s photographs of landscapes appear to be paintings for the sheer scale of content—geometric lines of cities and curves of mountains so elegant they could only be fake, except that they’re real. Scaling down, his photographs of humans look like paintings as well, but because of his crop-and-zoom technique that renders them into blurry nobodies busy sunbathing, going to work, and getting married.
All images used with permission, © copyright the artist, all rights reserved.
