Japanese
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Lena Fritsch: Ravens & Red Lipstick Japanese Photography Since 1945
From the severity of post-war Realism to the diversity and technical ingenuity of the present, this volume traces the development of Japanese photography since 1945. Interleaved are new interviews with some of the most influential practitioners in photographic history, from Moriyama Daido to Araki Nobuyoshi and Kawauchi Rinko.
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Eikoh Hosoe: Kamaitachi
An undisputed masterwork among Japanese photobooks, Eikoh Hosoe and Tatsumi Hijikata’s Kamaitachi was originally released in 1969 as a limited edition of 1,000 copies. Hosoe, the renowned photographer, and Hijikata, the founder of ankoku butoh dance, had visited a farming village in northern Japan, where Hijikata improvised a performance inspired by the legend of a…
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Naohiro Harada: Tokyo Fishgraphs
Naohiro Harada’s (b. 1982, Japanese) series is an attempt to explore the origin of the eccentricity of Japanese visual culture through the usage of traditional methods by composing a fictional documentary for the audienceless 2020 Olympics.
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Keiko Nomura: Melody of Light
Melody of light is a result of the artist’s six-week stay in Wroclaw – her moving freely among a variety of places and people, themes and contexts.
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Seiichi Furuya: First Trip to Bologna 1978 / Last Trip to Venice 1985
This is the seventh book in a series of titles about Furuya’s wife. In it, he revisits the first and final holidays they spent together before Christine took her own life.
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Shigeru Onishi: A Metamathematical Proposition
This book presents an overview of the photographic oeuvre of Japanese mathematician and artist Shigeru Onishi .
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Issei Suda: My Japan
Issei Suda – My Japan is an introduction to his life’s work, from the 1960s until the publication of his final book in 2018.
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Takuma Nakahira : Circulation: Date, Place, Events
In his project Circulation: Date, Place, Events Nakahira challenged himself to photograph his surroundings and in the same day exhibit the results for a duration of approximately one week.
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Mao Ishikawa: Morika’s Dreams / A Port Town Elegy / Red Flower, The Women of Okinawa
Mao Ishikawa was born in 1953 in Ôgimi Village, in the northern part of Okinawa.
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Keizo Kitajima: Photo Express: Tokyo
Photo Express: Tokyo is a facsimile of the legendary series of twelve booklets published by Keizo Kitajima in 1979.
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Yutaka Takanashi: Toshi-e (Towards the City): Books on Books #6
Yutaka Takanashi’s Toshi-e (Towards the City) is a landmark two-volume set of books from one one of the founders of the avant-garde Japanese magazine Provoke.
