Lakshmana Temple, Khajuraho, Madhya Pradesh, India

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Lakshmana Temple, Khajuraho, Madhya Pradesh, India

2000

Masumi Hayashi

(American, 1945–2006)

Culture

America

Medium

Panoramic photocollage of Fuji Crystal Archive prints

Measurements

Image: 95.9 x 59.7 cm (37 3/4 x 23 1/2 in.); Mount: 114.9 x 78.7 cm (45 1/4 x 31 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Dean A. Keesey (Estate of Dr. Masumi Hayashi) 2024.142

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Location

Not on view

Did You Know?

The Lakshmana temple at Khajuraho is one of the most ideal examples of medieval north Indian temple architecture still standing.

Description

Masumi Hayashi’s image provides an experiential view of the context from which many sculptures in the museum’s historical South Asian collections have come. The meaning of the Hindu temple as an abstraction of the creation of the cosmos through time, as manifest in moldings and “vibrations” of the architecture, resonates with the way Hayashi creates a single image by combining a number of individual shots, each a different slice of time.