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May 2 – June 28, 1998
The works of 70 nominated artists from Asia were juried for the 1998 Leopold Godowsky, Jr. Color Photography Awards. The jurors were Noriko Fuku, independent scholar and curator, and Elizabeth ten Grotenhuis, then Boston University Assistant Professor for Asian Art History, and now Professor Emerita. The Godowsky Research Fellow was Stuart Steck, then and now, PhD candidate in Art History at Boston University, and currently, Adjunct Professor in the undergraduate and graduate programs at the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University.
The 1998 Award winners were:
Miwa Yanagi (Japan)
First Place
In this work, Yanagi creates disturbingly silent images of Japan's “elevator girls,” the official guides and greeters of Japanese department stores. In computer-generated images, clusters of these mannequin-like women pose in surreal settings.
Eiji Ina (Japan)
Second Place
In large-scale, abstract photographs, Ina deals with waste generated by a consumer-based culture. His large photographs appear at first to be color abstractions, but are actually still-lifes of refuse.
Manit Sriwanichpoom (India)
Second Place
In his exhibited series “Thai Dreams” and “Pink Man,” Sriwanichpoom uses a vocabulary of icons from both Western culture and traditional Thai culture, and places them in kitsch aesthetic. 
RELATED LINKS
1998 Jurors
Noriko Fuku
Elizabeth ten Grotenhuis
Teaching Affiliation:
http://www.bu.edu/ah/faculty/faculty.html
1998 Godowsky Research Fellow
Stuart Steck
Teaching Affiliation:
http://www.lesley.edu/aib/curriculum/bios.html
1998 Award Winners
Miwa Yanagi
Artist Website:
http://www.yanagimiwa.net/
Interview:
http://www.jca-online.com/yanagi.html
Recent exhibitions:
http://www.photography-now.com/artists/ausst_K08673.html
Eiji Ina
Recent project:
http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2005/5176
Manit Sriwanichpoom
Recent exhibitions and images:
http://www.photography-now.com/artists/K14908.html
http://www.iniva.org/dare/themes/space/manit.html
http://www.noorderlicht.com/eng/fest03/global/sriwanichpoom/
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