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Yasushi Rikitake’s original Portraits of Jennie series is an exercise in lyrical subtraction. By photographing dancers (primarily Jennie) with long shutter speeds against black backdrops, Rikitake dissolves the corporeal. Limbs become brushstrokes; faces turn into afterimages. The work channels the film’s central metaphor: love as a haunting, memory as a blur. The images are quiet, melancholic, singular. portraits of jennie by yasushi rikitake108 better