About the Japanese photographer, Takashi HOMMA (b.1962)

"Takashi HOMMA studied photography at Nihon University College of Art but left in 1984 to take a job as an in-house photographer at a Tokyo advertising agency. In 1991, he moved to London to work as a photographer for i-D magazine. He was awarded a Kimura Ihei Commemorative Photography Award for the project 'Tokyo Suburbia'. A major retrospective of his work opened at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, in 2010. Takashi HOMMA currently lives in Tokyo." (© Lensculture)

Photo books by Takashi HOMMA

  • 'Tokyo Suburbia (2000), 'Tokyo Children' (2001); 'Stars and Stripes. New York' (2002); Tokyo and my Daughter' (2006), 'New Waves' (2007, 2014); 'Tokyo' (2008); 'First, Jay Comes' (2009); 'Trails' (2009, 2019), 'M' (2010), 'New Documentary' (2011); 'Diaries. 2010-2011' (2011); 'Mushrooms From The Forest' (2011); 'Portrait' (2012, together with Mikako ICHIKAWA); 'Take as Long as You Might Take, You Might Take Long' (2013); 'Scandinavian Mushroom' (2015); 'The Narcissistic City (2016); 'A Song for Windows' (2016); 'Looking Through: Le Corbusier Windows' (2019); 'Every Building on Ginza Street' (2019); 'Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji' (2023), 'Tokyo Olympia' (announced)

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2 SC with belly band, 71 pp. (16 + 55), 17 x 23 cm., 70 color ills., Italian. Ltd. to 350 copies
198,00 € *
The out-of-print catalog volume on Takashi HOMMA (*1962) contains series made up to 2019 - the last series was printed on a different paper. The famous series 'Tokyo Suburbia' is missing, but you can get a good insight into the photographer's development.
198,00 € * Weight 1.2 kg
'In Our Nature' by Takashi HOMMA, which has been out of print for a long time, differs from other works, which all show an urban environment in some form. These photographs here do not show pure nature as such, but rather what people understand by nature.
168,00 € * Weight 0.3 kg
In his out-of-print photo volume 'Trails, Takashi HOMMA documents trails of deer hunting in the snow-covered mountains, following the trails of red blood in the white snow that lead up steep slopes and across a river. Each scene like an abstract painting.
120,00 € * Weight 0.4 kg
In his out-of-print photographic volume 'Tokyo and my Daughter', Takashi HOMMA documents his daughter from toddler to young girl through the everyday places in her life. With an incredible sense of closeness and distance, he creates a very special world.
98,00 € * Weight 0.1 kg
HC with dust jacket, 20 x 17,5 x 1 cm., 72 pp., 48 color ills., bilingual text: Japanese / English
98,00 € *
In his 'Trails', Takashi HOMMA traces blood trails of some deer, considered sacred, that were released for shooting in Shiretoko National Park on the island of Hokkaido. The images take on calligraphic compositions: abstract and symbolic at the same time.
from 78,00 € Weight 0.5 kg
The volume 'Casablanca Chandigarh: A Report on Modernization' reflects the urban reality in both metropolises, complemented by two photo essays by Yto BARRADA and Takashi HOMMA. It offers an expanded view of the potential and character of the modern city.
78,00 € * Weight 0.8 kg
Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 24 x 31,5 x 2 cm., 112 pp., 62 color ills., gatefold pages, text language: English
55,00 € * Weight 1 kg
Earthquake, Tsunami and nuclear meltdown of the Fukushima. As the immediate effects of the triple disaster in March, 2011 began, photographers were the first artists to respond to these experiences of the challenges in Japan after the catastrophic events.
55,00 € * Weight 1.5 kg
more books with contribution by Takashi HOMMA
  • 'Daido Moriyama: Lost Home' (2013, together with works by Harvey BENGE, JH ENGSTRÖM, Roe ETHRIDGE,  Ron JUDE, Christian PATTERSON, Bertien van MANEN, Slavica PERKOVIC as well as by Terri WEIFENBACH); 'Stephen Shore: Selected Works 1973-1981' (2017);