Passing Beauty

• Photographer
  Nailia Schwarz
• Agency / Studio
  Nailia Schwarz
• Technical Info
  Fuji Gfx Full Frame 160/32 Iso 100
• Photo Date
  2021

Passing beauty. What does ‘to be beautiful’ mean? And what is the beauty? It has been always seen as an universalia, as something requiring no analysis in the popular consciousness. Working on this project I tried to analyse the beauty and its display. In Japanese culture there is a term ‘Mono no aware’ meaning ‘the pathos of things’. According to Japanese aesthetics beauty can be seen as the things that wither and pass away, as do flowers. Withering and observation — that is the beauty.