Sukiyaki Western 9

$1,100.00

Five select Sukiyaki Western images are now available in 11x14-sized limited edition prints signed and numbered by the artist. Each image is limited to a quantity of 100. Prices increase as availability diminishes. The images may be displayed individually or as a series. The price displayed here is for the single image shown. Originally photographed on medium format film, the negatives were scanned using a crossfield drum scanner, color corrected by the artist, and custom printed for the ultimate in quality. Prints are created to museum standards by The Icon in Los Angeles as photographic "C Prints".

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The pop version of a Western is no more real than the Lord
of the Rings. Shot by Italian directors with international
casts and crews overseas, “Spaghetti Westerns” were
highly creative “B” films meant to entertain. So the genre
is an open source that can incorporate just about any
idea, much like sci-fi, horror, or fantasy. Enter the Mandalorian.

The difference is, we somehow believe that the iconography
created by Leone, Eastwood, and others is somehow an
actual representation of 19th-century America.
Casting Asian actors as the gunslingers forces
reconsideration of our invented perception of cowboys
and the romanticized Western hero. If we accept the
Sukiyaki Western images for what they are, the same pure
entertainment as the original Italian versions, it affords us
the opportunity to dissolve cross-cultural boundaries.

Hopefully, progressive re-interpretations and simulations
of past work, current media, and life experience can move
us closer to greater equality, freedom of expression, and
tolerance.

Best of all, Sukiyaki Western was just a blast to shoot and
I got to make some of the cool imagery I love!

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