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| Title: Across the Sea |
| By (photographer): Yoko Kusano |
| ISBN10-13: 490974200X : 9784909742001 |
| The photobook â Across the Seaâ consists of photographs taken by Yoko Kusano during her first stay in London. For Kusano, whose photography captures everyday lifeâ s intricacies in sharp detail, it is her first contact with the city and its sights. Her story begins from somewhat distant viewpoint, but gradually Kusano accepts the muted loneliness she feels in this new world and begins to react purely and harmoniously to everything her eyes encounter. Her gaze somewhat blurred and sleepy, her vision yet lights up occasionally. The loneliness of London is the same loneliness she had known in Tokyo, after moving there on her own from her home in Fukushima. What Kusano sees before her is, after all, nothing but the same present moment as it exists anywhere else in the world. With great care, roshin books has combined Kusanoâ s experiences into a single photobook. Born in Fukushima in 1993 |
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Pages: 88
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| Published: Roshin books - September 2019 |
| Format: Hardback |
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| List Price: 35.00 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 19 |
| Title: 1 of: 8 |
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| Title: Go To Become |
| ISBN10-13: 4990723074 : 9784990723071 |
| In 2011 Jörgen Axelvall moved to Tokyo after living in NYC for 15 years. The work in Go To Become is Axelvallâ s expression of his feelings as a newcomer to Japan. It is in every aspect biographical. The oxymoronic combination of feeling excluded and lonely on the crowded streets of Tokyo led Axelvall to seek out desolate and quiet environments. These places soon became his personal sanctuaries where he would find refuge and peace of mind from the hustle of the city, often in the middle of night. Several of these photographs earned Axelvall the New Exposure Award from US Vogue and Bottega Veneta in 2013. When asked by the jury for a brief description Axelvall said the following: I live in a big city the biggest in the world by some measure Iâ m a foreigner here at times I feel trapped, alienated and lonely amongst the millions of people calling this home These images were all photographed in central Tokyo not far from my home in Shibuya at the sanctuaries where I find peace A lover of poetry and literature, Axelvall later teamed up with Mutsuo Takahashi, one of the most prominent and prolific poets in contemporary Japan. With more than 130 books published, including dozens of poetry collections, Takahashiâ s poetry successfully spans all the major Japanese poetic forms. After listening to Axelvallâ s story and looking at the photographs, Takahashi wrote the poem â Go To Becomeâ [in Japanese ?????] specially for this project. |
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Pages: 50
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| Published: Roshin books - October 2017 |
| Format: Hardback |
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| List Price: 61.00 Pounds Sterling |
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Qty Available: 16 |
| Title: 2 of: 8 |
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| Title: Record of Creation |
| ISBN10-13: 4990723082 : 9784990723088 |
| roshin Books announces the publication of Rika Noguchiâ s photobook â Record of Creationâ . It is the ninth publication in roshin Booksâ growing catalogue. Rika Noguchi has been a distinguished photographer even in her student days, and after numerous publications and exhibitions has grown to become an artist representative of contemporary Japanese photography. Noguchiâ s technique of capturing the world with her distinctive, sharp perspective - often compared to â the eyes of a strangerâ - leads her to turn everyday sights into views from a different world. The moment fixated in a photograph, the light that flowed into its creation, even gravityâ s effect on the depicted world: everything is present in Noguchiâ s carefully arranged compositions. roshinâ s photobook â Record of Creationâ collects Rika Noguchiâ s first three publications, â Rescueâ , â An Axisâ , and â Record of Creationâ , all of which were created during her student days. Even during this early period, her photography clearly demonstrated her rare talent as an artist. She then went on to win one photography award after another and gain international recognition. For the series â Rescueâ , Noguchi photographed rescue training manoeuvres held by firefighters. Themes of rescue and saving are revisited in Noguchiâ s contemporary output, drawing a direct connection between this earliest of her published works and her recent series. In the series â An Axisâ , Noguchiâ s creative vision transform the world into a coordinate system into which peopleâ s existence is arranged. The effect of these images is a sense of an eternal time that cannot be reconstructed again. For the series â Record of Creationâ , Noguchi chose a construction site as the stage. Workers are present in each of the 6x6 photographs; the series appears as a collaborative effort between Noguchi and the workers on the construction site. Lastly, the book concludes with two previously unpublished photographs. roshin Books collected these early works in a beautiful book, created with 1 great care and attention to binding and printing. â Record of Creationâ is a masterpiece that will prove indispensable for future discussions about both ; Noguchi and Japanese photobook culture. |
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Pages: 1000
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| Published: Roshin books - September 2019 |
| Format: Hardback |
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| List Price: 42.00 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: Reprint under Consideration
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| Title: 3 of: 8 |
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| Title: Stakeout Diary |
| By (author): Yukichi Watabe |
| ISBN10-13: 4990723007 : 9784990723002 |
| Yukichi Watabeâ s â Stakeout Diaryâ is a close-up documentation of two Japanese police detectives investigating a grisly murder in Mito, the capital of Ibaraki Prefecture, in 1958. With the mutilated body of the victim confirmed as a Tokyo resident (and a hand towel of a Tokyo-based hotel was found with the corpse), the investigation led the two detectivesâ one from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, the other a Mito localâ to hold stakeouts in various downtown areas of Tokyo. Watabeâ s photographs of the detectives slowly solving the case and finding the murderer ooze with so atmosphere and character that the series almost seems unreal. In photographs that would not seem out of place in an early Kurosawa film, we see the detectives interview witnesses, ride around the city in busses and trains, think things over in cafes and offices, and converse over cigarettes and food. |
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Pages: 104
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| Published: Roshin books - January 2022 |
| Format: Hardback |
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| List Price: 53.00 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: 4 of: 8 |
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| Title: Subway Diary |
| By (author): Masakazu Murakami |
| ISBN10-13: 4909742026 : 9784909742025 |
| With more than 8 million users per day, Tokyoâ s subways are a pulsating aorta supplying the city with life. Since his student days, Masakazu Murakami has been capturing the scenes unfolding underground as a fellow passenger. Murakami kept shooting as Japan entered its long recession after the burst of the Bubble, the people at the other end of his gaze seemingly lost in a city without exits, drifting through Tokyoâ s subway system as if it were an endless sea. |
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Pages: 144
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| Published: Roshin books - January 2020 |
| Format: Hardback |
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| List Price: 55.00 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: 5 of: 8 |
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| Title: Swaying Flowers |
| By (author): Ayaka Endo |
| ISBN10-13: 4909742042 : 9784909742049 |
| Ayako Endoâ s photobook â Swaying Flowersâ deals with one of the most ubiquitous themes in visual media â flowers. Endo, whose work as a photographer range from the world of art to the world of fashion, took a unique approach to capturing her subjects. After taking photographs of flowers, she printed them on fabric, tore the fabric surrounding the images, and scanned the results. This elaborate process softens the mechanical nature of the photographic images and produces captivating colors and textures that almost add an element of touch to the act of seeing. Endoâ s subjects subjects range from simple bouquets to wild bushes and tended gardens. Whether close-up, blurred or well-composed, there is an immediacy and directness to her images that contrasts with the conventionally serene (or sexually charged) atmosphere of flower photography. |
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Pages: 88
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| Published: Roshin books - January 2023 |
| Format: Hardback |
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| List Price: 60.00 Pounds Sterling |
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Qty Available: 11 |
| Title: 6 of: 8 |
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| Title: Trace of Fog |
| ISBN10-13: 4990723090 : 9784990723095 |
| A deep fog usually envelops Mount Kirigamine (literally â Summit of Fogâ ). Once the mountain is covered by the fog, all boundaries disappear, and the fog seems to extend into infinity. A while ago, the mountain was home to a ski resort, large enough to include two ski jumping platforms. The mountain was a candidate to play host to the Olympic Winter Games. Further back in time, the entire mountain was once designated as hunting grounds. The Kamakura shogunate 800 years ago organized large hunting events in which the samurai competed with each other. Shinto rites held at temple ruins still remaining in the mountain pastures convey these ancient times to our present age. Today, too, there are a number of building complexes on the mountain that have outlived their usefulness. These abandoned structures appear like fresh ruins that will tell future generations of our times. â Traceâ is a word used in mountaineering. It is used to denote alterations made by those who came before you. As climbers move through a mountain, they effect various changes. Paths change or disappear. They overlap each other like layers on a rock bed, their surface covered by the fog. The fog lasts mere moments. It comes then disappears. It seems to swallow all and everything but soon vanishes into nothingness. It reminds me of our human existence. Ancient ruins and present buildings, too, are only transient presences on the mountainâ s surface. Measured in the time scale of the mountain, humanityâ s traces are but a momentary presence, just like fog. Fog has no beginning, no end. I follow the path, looking for the traces it has left behind. |
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Pages: 80
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| Published: Roshin books - September 2019 |
| Format: Hardback |
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| List Price: 39.00 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: Temporarily Out of Stock, more expected soon |
| Title: 7 of: 8 |
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| Title: Untitled |
| ISBN10-13: 4990723066 : 9784990723064 |
| Roshin Bookâ s seventh publication focuses on Japanese photographer Shin Yanagisawa (1936-2008), whose photography was highly regarded by contemporaries such as Daido Moriyama and Ryuichi Kaneko. From 1963 on, after having recovered from an illness, Yanagisawa focused on photographing a variety of places throughout Japan. It was Yanagisawaâ s philosophy to create photos that require no further commentary, that already say and contain everything there is to convey. Yanagisawa held only four exhibitions in his lifetime and published only three photobooks. He chose to focus on his work at his own pace, ignoring trends in contemporary photography. In the 1970s, this work ethic has even led him to decline a request by Shoji Yamagishi, editor at the influential Camera Mainichi magazine, to publish new work. Shin Yanagisawa - Untitled?collects photography shot throughout Japan between the years 1965 and 1992 and includes a short essay by Naomi Yanagimoto in Japanese and English |
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Pages: 96
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| Published: Roshin books - October 2017 |
| Format: Hardback |
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| List Price: 61.00 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 9 |
| Title: 8 of: 8 |
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