ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with the things that fill domestic interiors. Takashi Yasumura's photographs in his photographic series Domestic Scandals provide an opportunity to think about the relationship between ordinary things, domestic spaces and photography. The chapter uses Domestic Scandals' foregrounding of domestic things to consider the insights of thing theory'. The increasing attention to material culture, things and objects is regularly rehearsed in scholarship which tackles the nebulous nature of thing theory. Attention to framing and modes of perception is the concern of still life art photography. Yasumura's project is distinctive amongst various representations of domestic interiority in contemporary photographic art practice. His photographs of the interior of his parents' home juxtapose the mass produced with traditional Japanese decorations and ornaments. Through a close examination of Yasumura's photographs, the chapter brings the concerns of thing theory into conversation with still life, photography and the domestic.
