Dark Mirror

In Dark Mirror, Lisa Kanemoto presents 42 duo-tone photographic images surveying crucial episodes in her life from childhood to adulthood. She created these works after reaching maturity and acquiring the technical means enabling her to express her artistic vision. Outstanding features of the book, beyond its physical beauty as a published object, are its narrative coherence and esthetic integrity uniting a variety of experiences.

These experiences engendered feelings ranging from dread to love, from inadequacy to personal satisfaction. They include surviving Nazism in Germany, marriage, a child's mental illness, depression, alcohol dependency, breast cancer, the emergence of an artistic vocation and the search for the means to express it.

Kanemoto has meticulously designed each image for a perfect economy of artistic process and poetic expression. Her book will illuminate the meaning of life for all those who become acquainted with it.

Janet K. Long's! introductory essay is rich with insights that only a woman who unites art and psychology in her life and career could reveal.