Nederlandse fotografen

Kishi no Machi / A Town Already Seen

€ 485,00
Black and white images by photographer Kanendo Watanabe shot in a unique, spare style, that has more in common with the New Topographics photographers than Japanese influences. Aperture reference. (Aperture 228-231).
Reminiscent of the austere, minimalist style of New Topographics photographers (Lewis Baltz, Robert Adams, Joe Deal, etc..)-- but with atmospherics that are distinctly Surreal. As Vartanian and Kaneko describe in Japanese Photobooks of the 1960s and 1970s, Mieko Kanai's opening text is typical of the "i-novel" genre, in which narrative is based on the everyday life of the writer. But is also "very close in feel to Andre Breton's 1928 surrealist novel, Nadja...[the images] [evoke] the feeling of being lost in an unfamiliar town." Winner of the 1981 Ihei Kimura Prize. Only one copy in OCLC--in Japan.

Bibliographic Details

Author Kanendo Watanabe
Publisher Shinchosha
Place of publication Tokyo
Year 1980
Edition First edition
Binding paperback
ISBN 3050023162
Collation 152 pp.
Language Japans
Dimensions 21x15
Out of stock on Amstelbooks but available on Abebooks