Masahisa Fukase’s Ravens is a classic of the photobook genre and was recently reissued by Mack. The narrative is a little bit frightening, a little bit forlorn, a little bit mysterious, and incredibly beautiful and moving.
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Masaki Yamamoto ‘Guts’
Guts is Masaki Yamamoto’s first book, and it’s a viceral, unnerving, gorgeous, and deeply personal portrait of his family, and their life together in a one-room apartment.
Takuma Nakahira – ‘Overflow’
Overflow marked an important transition in Takuma Nakahira’s photography, away from the aure, bure, bokeh of the Provoke era, and concretely anchoring his ideas of the Illustrated Dictionary. In person, I’m sure the 5′ x 20′ arrangement of photographs is arresting and captivating. In book form, though, I’m not sure…
‘Daido Moriyama: Ango’
Daido Moriyama: Ango is the third (and last?) collaboration between Daido Moriyama and designer Satoshi Machiguchi, that combines Moriyama’s photographs of cherry blossoms (mostly) with “In the Cherry Forest, Beneath Flowers in Full Bloom,” by Ango Sakaguchi.
Tokyo Rumando – ‘S’
S is a new collection from Tokyo Rumano, published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name at Zen Foto Gallery in early 2018, in which she continues her exploration of self-portraiture. From the press release, S “incorporates theatrical elements, which transforms her self-portraits from a story into a play, performed at her own stage theatre, …
Feng Li – ‘White Night’
Feng Li’s White Night is the result of 10 years spent roaming the streets of Chengdu, China. Mostly flash-lit, with an unsettling/nauseating green cast to most of the photos, grinning faces of awkward people and pretty people in awkward situations, it’s a collection of the absurd, filled with visual jokes, puns, and juxtapositions.
‘William Neill: Photographer – a Retrospective’
William Neill is a capital-L Landscape Photographer, and William Neill: Photographer — a Retrospective shows the best of the best of his incredible body of work.
