Female nudes can be found just about anywhere portrait art is displayed, but the
male nude, particularly in photography remains somewhat of a rarity. Not that
the artist particularly cares.
"Just look at the photos first, and if you get some enjoyment out of them,
great," he tells Sunday Mainichi. "There's no deep meaning behind the photos
and I wasn't thinking of anything in particular when I took 'em."
Actually, earlier this month, Takano was rewarded for his decades of high class
photography when he was presented with the 31st Ihei Kimura Award, the highest
prize for photography in Japan.
"I hope (the prize) gets people coming here to see the exhibit...that'd make me
really happy," the shutterbug tells Sunday Mainichi. "Most of the time I've put
works on display in the past there hasn't been a great deal of people come to
see them."
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