One Picture Book 31, photography by Ken Ohara , “One”

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“One” One Picture Book Series, #31 Photography by Ken Ohara Published by Nazraeli Press, Portland, OR , 2005. LIMITED FIRST EDITION OF 500 COPIES AS NEW CONDITION SIGNED BY THE ARTIST In 1970, Ken Ohara created a body of work for the One Picture Book Series called “One,” for which he randomly selected people on the streets of New York and asked if he could take their picture. The resulting full-face portraits are larger than life, close-cropped black-and-white photographs that are as striking as they are unsettling. Ohara’s subjects vary in gender, race and age, but the portraits come together as a homogenous whole. The close-up, identically-formatted images of faces of strangers on the street are a meditation on mankind in general, telling us finally, despite individual differences, we are all "one". About the artist: As a young man, Ken Ohara emigrated from Japan to study photography at the Art Student’s League and apprentice with Avedon and Hiro in New York City. During those New York years, he undertook an odd and imaginative project, “One” , which was published as a book in Japan and included in the landmark exhibition New Japanese Photography, at the Museum of Modern Art in 1974. This is his only contribution to the One Picture Book Series for the Nazraeli Press. This book is issued as hardcover in AS NEW condition, and read more

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