Noritoshi Hirakawa:
In the Time of Innocence

Artist

Noritoshi Hirakawa

Title

In the Time of Innocence

Year

2004

Category

Photography

Size

36,5 x 29 cm (framed)

Markings

signed and dated on verso

Edition

2/4

Noritoshi Hirakawa (平川 典俊 Hirakawa Noritoshi) is a Japanese contemporary artist, film maker, and film producer. Hirakawa works in a variety of media including photography, performance and installation. He was born in 1960 in Fukuoka, Japan and now lives and works in New York.

Hirakawa's photographs are described as "erotic and intimate". Stating that "the sexual revolution is over and the Puritans won", Hirakawa's work challenges mainstream conceptions of sexuality, and the assumption that expressions of male heterosexual desire are oppressive and objectifying.

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