February 26, 2012
Hisaji Hara’s Balthus Tableaux
Hisaji Hara’s A Study of ‘The Salon’, 2009. Photograph: Courtesy of the Michael Hoppen Gallery.
Balthus’s studies of girls in often stilted poses are certainly timeless in their strangeness, their evocation of a pre-adult world of dark childhood reverie. Now, Japanese photographer Hisaji Hara has made a series of images that meticulously recreate some of Balthus’s most famous paintings.
Via @Howlinow, who observes, “Oddly compelling these, and yes, like stills from a Japanese horror film.”
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