Newsletter october 2019 // photographers’ gallery in Tokyo
Keizo Kitajima／北島 敬三
“UNTITLED RECORDS Vol. 17” 展
photographers’ gallery2019/10/22 – 2019/11/1712:00-20:00会期中無休 / DAILY OPEN
UNTITLED RECORDS is a new series of photographic booklets together with solo exhibitions conceived by Keizo Kitajima, which will compose a collection of more than twenty issues, presented four times per year. This kind of project is not unexpected for Kitajima, who already began his photographic career in 1979 with twelve issues of Photo Express Tokyo, in which he vividly portrayed the men and women filled with an urban atmosphere of that period. But our time differs profoundly from the 1970s: the collapse of the USSR and the end of the Cold War, the liberal economy booming worldwide, the Internet network and supply chain spread everywhere, the shock doctrine and market liberalization in all areas, civil and local conflicts bogging down here and there, etc. Regarding Japan, the aftermath of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and of Fukushima nuclear accidents is always cruel and insistent. All these events have often given the impression that the reality in front of us turned suddenly into another thing entirely unfamiliar. While photographing the stricken area in Fukushima and Sanriku, Kitajima realized that the staggering reality before him was not free from the influence of the permeating images, which had also an overwhelming reality. We are in an era where a single and objective point of view might not be enough to observe and understand the world. The UNTITLED RECORDS series gives us a visual document of this era: a graphic testimony that will allow us to reflect on the past and future of our time. This project is also an exploration to criticize the thinking of a binomial confrontation between such as victims / non-victims, ordinary / extraordinary and record / fiction. It contains photos taken around Japan, from Hokkaido to Okinawa, including damaged areas in Sanriku and Fukushima.
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Keizo Kitajima／北島 敬三
“UNTITLED RECORDS Vol. 17”
UNTITLED RECORDS is a series of photographic booklets conceived by Keizo Kitajima, published four times per year and which will make up a collection of more than twenty issues when complete.
Book release date: October 22, 2019
16 pages, Soft cover
Published by KULA
price: 2,200 yen (tax included)
*Special Editon with a print
Price: ¥33,000 (tax included)
limited edition of 12
c- print
housed in a folding box
image size: 17.7 x 22.2 cm
paper size: 19.9 x 24.4cm
each print is signed and numbered
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Takuro Yoneda／米田 拓朗
“MARUISHIGAMI Box Set”
In parallel with this exhibition, “MARUISHIGAMI Box Set” is published, which contains photographs of 100 Maruishigami that can be seen in many places of the Fuefuki River basin.
“Maruishigami” is a round stone artifact can be seen especially in Yamanashi Prefecture in Japan. It has been a subject of folk religion for a long time, and is at borders of villages, street corners, the precincts of shrines, and garden of houses. It is said there is more than 700 Maruishigami in Yamanashi. The stones range from the size of a fist to about 1 meter in diameter. Some are placed alone, while others are stacked with dozens. Its origin and history are not clear. Those round stones, brought by unknown people from unknown places, is like something arrived a different world and is full of mysterious charms.
Yoneda walked around the Fuefuki River looking for Maruishigami and took photos of more than 650 Maruishigami. “MARUISHIGMI Box Set” contains 100 postcards of Maruishigami with a booklet about them and a map showing the distribution of them.
Takuro Yoneda
“MARUISHIGAMI Box Set”
100 postcards, Map, and booklet in special box
142 x 190 x 40 mm (postcard: 100 x 148 mm)
Price: 3,600 JPY
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Keiko Sasaoka／笹岡 啓子
『SHORELINE 36-37』
Since the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011, in such a way that taking photographs, Keiko Sasaoka has been facing up to the each place being still work in progress from the major disasters. On the other hand, from the beginning of her activity, she has also been interested in the terrain and the surface revealing the origin of the places: coastlines and volcanoes. “SHORELINE” is an attempt to follow “the contiguous sea” beyond the tense from the current topography.
[Latest issues will be published on 30th April.]
Keiko Sasaoka “SHORELINE”
SHORELINE 36: Iitate, Odaka, Namie, FUKUSHIMA
SHORELINE 37: Sanriku Coast
Publish date: April, 2019/ 8+1 pages, Booklet, color
price: 300 yen (tax included)
photographers’ gallery press no. 13
Latest issue No. 13 of annual magazine “photographers’ gallery press”.
Contents
After the End of Everything
“MASUYAMA Tazuko: After the End of Everything” Conversations 1 (Jp)
Norio Akasaka, Hiroko Nobe, Masashi Kohara
“MASUYAMA Tazuko: After the End of Everything” Conversations 2 (Jp)
Fujio Omaki, Michihiro Shinoda, Masashi Kohara
“Wherever I Might Be”:
Tomb and Its Supplements (Jp)
Satoshi Ukai
A Position of Ninoshima (Jp)
Shino Kuraishi
Tripod and Photography (Jp)
Kazumichi Hashimoto
Quelle Émotion! Quelle Émotion? (Jp)
Georges Didi-Huberman
translated by Kazumichi Hashimoto
Think by Images:
An Interview with Georges Didi-Huberman (Jp/En)
by Kazumichi Hashimoto
Rewriting the History of Photography:
An Interview with Geoffrey Batchen (Jp/En)
by Yoshiaki Kai
Commentary on Geoffrey Batchen’s Forget Me Not: Photography and Remembrance (Jp)
Osamu Maekawa
Contemporary Photography and the Antitheatrical Tradition:
An Interview with Michael Fried (Jp/En)
by Yoshiaki Kai
Notes on Michael Fried’s Why Photography Matters as Art as Never Before (Jp/En)
Michio Hayashi
On Recent Writings of Geoffrey Batchen and Michael Fried (Jp)
Yoshiaki Kai
photographers’ gallery press no. 13
Publisher: photographers’ gallery
Book size: B5 size（W182 × H257 mm）
Number of pages: 242 pages
Date of issue: November 20, 2015
Price: 2,160 yen (tax included)
Responsible for issuing: Keizo Kitajima
Editor in chief: Takuro Yoneda
Design: Tomohiro Koketsu
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