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Takashi Homma - The Narcissistic City philosophy significant birthdays and times ofTakashi Homma uses fragments collected in camera obscura constructed in metropolitan areas of Japan and the US to build a city image by image. Homma does not seek to index any particular city but to render a shadow world, a citys unconscious caught in a dark chamber, suspended in the cameras box. The camera obscura offers a repetition, like the reflection shimmering in Narcissuss pool. The narcissistic city is a city transfixed upon its own image a