Portraits of 'Jennie' is a multi-volume photography collection by Yasushi Rikitake
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Rikitake avoids primary colors in most of his work, but in .108, he allows a single, shocking stroke of vermilion on the lower lip. Not painted on the lip, but bleeding off of it. Art historians have compared this to the "ukiyo-e" tradition of printing imperfections, where a misplaced registration block becomes an emotional cue. Here, the bleeding lip suggests a woman who has just spoken—or just been kissed in a different century. Not painted on the lip, but bleeding off of it