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Potteries

Maker Hiromu Kira (American, 1898 - 1991)

ClassificationsPHOTOGRAPHS

Dateca. 1935

Mediumsilver print

Dimensions10 1/2 x 13 5/16 in. (26.7 x 33.8 cm.)

InscribedInscribed on recto of mount: Potteries; in ink on verso of mount: Potteries Hiromu Kira, F.R.P.S. 945 So. Normandie Ave. Los ANgles, Calif. U.S.A.; in graphite on verso of mount: 5[circled]; in red crayon: A; in blue and black crayon: 241 Signed on recto of mount in graphite: Hiromu Kira, F.R.P.S. Label: Exhibited at The London Salon of Photography. 1935

Credit LineThe Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens

Status

Not on view

Label TextPhotographer Hiromu Kira (1898-1991) was born in Hawaii, educated in Japan, and in 1916 settled in the Pacific Northwest. He was a founding member of the Seattle Camera Club and part of the artistic community of Los Angeles’s Little Tokyo in the 1920s and 30s.

With its sharp focus, high detail, and emphasis on form and geometry, Potteries reflects the artist’s modernist approach, developed after moving to Los Angeles in 1926, through dialogue with Edward Weston, Margaret Mather, and other local and international photographers.

Object number86.30.3