Masayuki Yoshinaga 吉永マサユキ

Japanese Culture, in Vivid Color

Apparently because of a lack of wall space, Masayuki Yoshinaga’s extraordinary photographs of the Goth-Lolita subculture — young women and the occasional young man in hybrid get-ups, like goth black pinafores — is visible only one image at a time, on a large digital screen. This reduces their impact and their contribution to the visual energy of the show. (If you want to see Mr. Yoshinaga’s images hanging on a wall, a nomadic gallery run by Mako Wakasa is showing his work, through Saturday, in a small ground-floor space at 139 Norfolk Street, near Rivington Street, on the Lower East Side.)

By ROBERTA SMITH
New York Times issued: June 13, 2008