POLICE PICTURE

September 10th, 2010
303 Gallery / NEWYORK

ALL STYLE / 24

Anxiety, tenseness and resignation when pointed by viewfinder… In fact, circumstances that is imaginable only for those who have been caught on film. What is apparent from the record is the fact of committing the crime. Record files of unspecified and completely different people. “Police Picture” around 1910~1940 is the theme for N.Hoolywood this season. We have focused on mug shots, which is the most symbolic figure of the theme.Like the pieces with the detail of the numbers directly printed and jackets with horizontally long rectangle panel on the chest, we got the inspiration from the record of the criminals at that time. We have broken down unique mixture of the formal wear and prisoners’ uniform into coordination and details. At the presentation, large-sized photograph that associates the mug shots of that time were displayed on the walls of the entire gallery. Also, a 12 inch wide slit on a eye line level were made on the wall on one side and when the people look into it they could see the situation where each model been taken mug shot.

ファインダーを向けられたときの、不安、緊張、諦め…。実際、撮られるものにしか想像できない環境。記録から分かることは、確実に罪を犯したという事実。不特定で、全く異なる人々の記録ファイル。 1910～1940年頃の”POLICE PICTURE”をテーマに、最も象徴的であるMUG SHOTに焦点を当て、番号が直接プリントされたディテールの ピース、横長に長方形のパネルの切替えが胸もとにあるジャケットなど、当時の犯罪者の記録から着想し、フォーマルなウエアと囚人のユニフォームの独特なミクスチャーを、コーディネートやディテールに落とし込んでいます。 プレゼンテーションでは、当時のMUG SHOTを連想させる大判写真をギャラリー全体に規律正しく貼りつけ、また、一面の壁には、目線の高さに30cm幅のスリットを作り、そこを覗き込むと、さながらMUG SHOTを取られているかのようなモデルが、一人、また一人と現れる演出を行いました。