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Yuri Kochiyama There will never be and shouldn’t be a Mt Rushmore for Asian Americans, it sounds dumb, but if one had to be made, Yuri Kochiyama would be a first ballot choice. I’d say that Yuri Kochiyama is the...
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  Takashi Murakami once described himself in wrestling terms as the “Heel” in comparison to Yoshitomo Nara, the Hero. I thought his self-deprecating analogy was perfect. Perhaps “the heel” came from the vastness of Murakami’s own factory-like scale for the...
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I’m certain that Giant Robot was the first to feature Yoshitomo Nara and his work on a magazine cover in America.  I shot many of these photos in 2001 for issue 20. Captured on reversal film at his studio in...
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