Ethereal Rinko Kawauchi

I spent my Thanksgiving turkey-gorging in the Park Slope home of a couple who own a lot of art books. My favorite find: Aila (2004), by the Japanese photographer Rinko Kawauchi. Her pictures are really stunning. They feel contemporary, but also succeed in capturing much of Japan’s traditional aesthetic themes like serenity and ephemerality.

The following are all untitled, from the “Aila” series, 2003-2004. I stole them from the internet.