Artist

K. Ogawa printing factory

K. Ogawa printing factory is an artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.

K. Ogawa printing factory produced crisp black-and-white film stills that preserved scenes from 1930s British cinema. They captured actors mid-frame, the actors’ faces sharp against the soft shadows of studio sets, turning moments from Dark Journey (1937) into still photographs. The prints read like freeze-frames from a lost movie, printed on heavy paper so you can almost feel the grain.

Next, tap the Dark Journey still to see how one frame becomes a photograph that outlives the film itself.

Works by K. Ogawa printing factory

Collections represented

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