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Nakahira Takuma: Burn-Overflow

Takuma NAKAHIRA

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This catalog accompanies the Takuma Nakahira exhibition “Burn—Overflow” held at the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, from February 6 – April 7, 2024. The exhibition was the first major retrospective of Takuma Nakahira’s work in close to twenty years. Like the exhibition, the c...

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Upon visiting Iceland in 2019, Kawauchi encountered geysers like the breadths of Earth, glaciers surpassing human time, and the inner space of a dormant volcano that was reminiscent of the inside of a womb. She had thus experienced the connection to this planet she had never felt b...

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PROVOKE Complete Reprint of 3 Volumes

Koji TAKI, Takuma NAKAHIRA , Yutaka TAKANASHI, Takahiko OKADA, Daido MORIYAMA

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The Provoke magazine, created and published by art critic Koji Taki, photographer Takuma Nakahira, poet Takahiko Okada, photographer Yutaka Takanashi and (for issues 2 & 3) photographer Daido Moriyama, has had an immeasurable influence on photography world-wide. The individual ...

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Finding Annu Aalto

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It was about 49 days after her passing when her parents visited Sokyusha to donate her unused films. Chiba-san, who was holding an exhibition at the gallery that day, received them. I was supposed to work at Sokyusha on the following day, there I was given 32 rolls of her will. She...

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'89 Tiananmen

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This 2024 edition of Kan Tai Wong's "'89 Tiananmen" series features 102 photographs taken by Wong to cover the 1989 student protests in Beijing's Tiananmen Square (plus six photographs taken between 1998 and 1999). In 1989, Wong was originally in Beijing to...

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Roadside Lights Seasons: Winter (C)

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All four covers available Eiji Ohashi’s winterly landscapes with vending machines. “Roadside Lights Seasons: Winter” is a follow-up to Eiji Ohashi’s critically acclaimed photographic series of vending machines along roads throughout Japan. The volume focuses exclusively on scenes t...

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Shinjuku Lost Child

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“Walking from the East exit of Shinjuku station towards Kabukicho, my heart begins to pound. Kabukicho reveals human desire. I adore it. I slept on cardboard on the street, under neon, and it felt good. I was out of the machine and I saw myself differently. The cardboard bed is per...

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The Photo, Coming Home

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Where has photography been? In his new book, "The Photo, Coming Home," Masafumi Sanai not only leaves this question unanswered, he does not even ask it. The important thing is that it's back. Sanai, whose pure yet enigmatic style has resulted in numerous fascinating ...

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The Dialogue of Two

Akihito YOSHIDA

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"It wasn’t a dream. He really came back". "The Dialogue of Two" is the nearly three-year story of photographer Akihito Yoshida's grandmother until her death at the age of 88, left alone after Yoshida's cousin Daiki, who lived with her, took his own lif...

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Eternity in a Moment Vol. 3

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Throughout the three volumes of "Eternity in a Moment," Mika Ninagawa seamlessly blends images of everyday urban life with diverse scenes from nature - flowers, fields, trees, fish, insects, and other animals. Her vibrant, varied photographs capture the impermanence of li...

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The Best Days (New Edition)

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“The Best Days” is Yang's earlier work photographed between 1999 to 2006 when he was studying photography in Tokyo. Driven by the suicide death of his comrade, Yang documented his life trajectory and people around him while he traveled back and forth between Japan and Korea. Z...

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Typical World

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The photobook “Typical World” by Japanese artist Taro Karibe highlights the unconscious biases of state-of-the-art AI image-generation technologies. Using a software called Stable Diffusion, one of the world’s most popular AI tools, Karibe created images of terrorists, heroes, eyes...

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Obi and Sand: Kyoto/Enoshima

Yoshio MIZOGUCHI

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Shot in Kyoto and Enoshima in the 1990s and 2000s, Yoshio Mizoguchi's "Obi and Sand" presents snapshots of women and strangers against the backdrop of Kyoto and the mysterious air of its history in the first part, and the Pacific Ocean and sandy beaches of Enoshima i...

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Eternity in a Moment Vol. 1

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Throughout the three volumes of "Eternity in a Moment," Mika Ninagawa seamlessly blends images of everyday urban life with diverse scenes from nature - flowers, fields, trees, fish, insects, and other animals. Her vibrant, varied photographs capture the impermanence of li...

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Vacuum 16

Takuya SUZUKI, Nagisa GOTO, Kotone TANIGUCHI, Jun ABE, Ryosuke KOSHINO, Mei HIRANO, LIN Hsuan-Lang, Yuko HIRANO, Shogo YAMADA, Ryoji TSUCHIYA, Yuka MATSUSHITA

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The 16th volume of “Vacuum,” an Osaka-based magazine offering an uncompromising view at the Now of Japan’s street photography. Featuring as little text as possible and covering every square inch of its pages in photographs, the magazine offers its members space and opportunity to p...

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Shinjuku 1999-2008

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In the early 2000s, Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward underwent several major changes: new, more accessible shopping complexes and entertainment centers were built, and Kabukicho was made less lawless. As a result, the area became friendlier and more attractive to new visitors. But, says ...

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Shibuya 1999

Mike NOGAMI, Masami TAKAHASHI

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Gal culture flourished in Shibuya at the end of 20th century. In the late 1990s, young girls filled Shibuya's Centre Gai Street and began creating a unique cultural movement that would eventually spread throughout Japan. People came from all over the country to gather in Shibu...

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High Fashion

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“HIGH FASHION” is a series of work taken by Pawel Jaszczuk between 2008 and 2010 of drunk salarymen sleeping in the streets of Tokyo. Pawel, residing in Japan at the time, would head out on his bicycle after midnight to photograph different people and places, saying that the best h...

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Soul Trip

Hideka TONOMURA

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Throughout her career, Japanese photographer Hideka Tonomura has explored themes of identity, love, beauty and femininity in unflinchingly raw yet poetic work. In her latest book, "Soul Trip," she explores the impact of nationality and borders on love. Tracing the journey...

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Sasuke

Masahisa FUKASE

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Divided into four chapters, the new publication “Sasuke” presents an organized collection of Fukase’s cat photography. Sasuke (and later Tomoe) was a faithful companion to Fukase, and became a regular subject of his photography. As with his most famous series “Raven”, Fukase’s phot...