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Background information
"This photo book debut by Mari KATAYAMA is both a retrospective and a document of her evolution as a photographer and artist. Mari KATAYAMA, who was born with tibial hemimelia, a rare deficiency that prevented growth in the lower legs and caused a cleft left hand that resembles a crab’s pincers, amputated her legs at age nine. She explores the possibilities of her own body by creating situations that manipulate the way we see her and painting tattoo-like designs on her prosthetics.
Content
Intricately embroidered, pillow-like objects in the shape of limbs and mannequins combine with self-portrait photography to elucidate uncanny and alluring expressions of a DIY aesthetic and notions of beauty." (publisher's note, © United Vagabonds, 2019)
Additional information
The photo volume 'Gift' by Mari KATAYAMA was shortlisted for the Apeture Paris Photo Book Award 2019!
About the Japanese photographer, Mari KATAYAMA
Photo books by Mari KATAYAMA
- Format
- HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 22 x 31 cm., 136 pp., color ills., bilingual text: Japanese / English