is a
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photographer
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. She graduated from the Kuwazawa Design School in
Tokyo
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. She lives in
Paris
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,
France
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.
Biography
Onodera works with large images (some reaching 8 meters) and wants her work to be "tangible".
In her series "Portrait of Second-Hand Clothes" Onodera used the clothes from "
Christian Boltanski
Christian Liberté Boltanski (6 September 1944 – 14 July 2021) was a French sculptor, photographer, painter, and film maker. He is best known for his photography installations and contemporary French conceptual style.
Early life
Boltanski wa ...
's installation 'Dispersion,' a large pile of used garments meant to evoke death and loss." She has worked in Paris since 1993, and she has had solo exhibits around the world. Institutions that hold her work include:
The Getty Museum
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, the
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
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, and
The Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography.
Awards
* 2001, New Photographer
Higashikawa Prize
The has been awarded to photographers by the "Phototown" of Higashikawa, Hokkaidō, Japan since 1985. The Overseas and Domestic Photographer prizes are of 500,000 yen and the New Photographer and Special prizes are of 300,000 yen.
The work of t ...
* 2002,
Kimura Ihei Award
The is a Japanese photography award.
The award has been given every year since 1975 (except 1983) by the Asahi Shimbun Company, publisher of ''Asahi Shimbun'' and the magazine ''Asahi Camera'', in honor of the photographer Ihei Kimura
was a Ja ...
* 2006, Prix Niépce
Publications
* ''How to Make a Pearl,''
Nazraeli Press
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Nazraeli publishes roughly 30 new titles each year and has published over 400 with work b ...
, 2002
* ''Transvest,'' Nazraeli Press, 2004,
References
See also
* ''Nihon shashinka jiten'' () / ''328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers.'' Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000. . Despite the English-language alternative title, all in Japanese.
1962 births
Living people
20th-century Japanese photographers
21st-century Japanese photographers
20th-century Japanese women photographers
21st-century Japanese women photographers
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