Scene by Tomoko Yoneda (March 30, 2010) 
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Introduction by Marc Feustel
In much of her work Tomoko Yoneda deals with the complexities of representation and the transformative power and weight of history. With Scene, Yoneda has developed a group of work shot around the world in locations where major and often traumatic historical events have taken place. These landscapes are fairly unremarkable, but by providing information about each scene in the captions to the series, Yoneda invests these locations with a powerful sense of their history and shows the power of the title or caption of a photograph.
Marc Feustel is an independent curator, writer and blogger based in Paris. A specialist in Japanese photography, he is the author of Japan: a self-portrait, photographs 1945-1964 (Flammarion, 2004) and the creative director of Studio Equis (www.studioequis.net), an organisation devoted to broadening access to the visual arts between different cultures, with a focus on the relationship between Asia and the West. He blogs at Weblink: eyecurious.com
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History is not only apparent in real monuments or buildings, but also expresses itself impassively in various intangible ways.
History surrounds us, in the blue sky, the blue sea, the woods, the fields and the city streets; it is already engraved upon the strata of landscape where we are born but it appears at rest and disconnected from our thoughts.
However, its shadow communicates itself with the awareness stored within our experiences.
History is interpreted along a variety of vectors; viewing images of battlefields or tragic acts is considered the only way of experiencing the true violence, evil or tragedy and some people avert their eyes from them.
Nevertheless, the comparison of the past with the present will lead us to renewal and hope.
Tomoko Yoneda (1965) lives and works in .
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