From the Collection of Harry Amdur.

While assisting Richard Avedon and Hiro, Japanese photographer Ken Ohara developed a personal and unique style of portraiture. He obsessively shot faces on the streets of New York, tightly framed, and printed them with the same tonal characteristics--eliminating basic differences in skin color. Ohara's utopian project used the camera to transform humankind into a multi-cultural racial trope. In 1974 Ohara won a Guggenheim Fellowship and his work was subsequently featured in the "New Japanese Photography" exhibit at New York Museum of Modern Art.