Allison Eve Zell

FATHER FOCUS SLIDESHOW, My Dad in Japan

An interactive video sculpture introducing my father (1927-1989) as the first person to export Minolta cameras out of Japan and a key player in the development of the world's consumer camera market.

Classes
Methods of Motion,Video Sculpture


Viewers are invited to operate a carousel slide projector. As each "slide" advances, animated photographs of my father, and mother, in 1950s Japan are projected onto a vintage projection screen. A blow-up of a letter from Sam Kusumoto, Chairman Emeritus of the Minolta Corporation, stands nearby serving as the "narrator" of the story.