Japanese photographer

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 21 x 28 x 1 cm., 104 pp., b/w ills., bilingual texts: English / Japanese

In 'Nemurushima. The Sleeping Island', Kentaro KUMON documents Teshima, an island of the Shiwaku archipelago. Once playing an important role in maritime trade, Teshima has only about a dozen inhabitants to date. Listen to the silent sleep of this island.

The idea for the volume 'The Dreaming' by Yasuhiro OGAWA arose when he, on the occasion of his 50th birthday, went through his archives from 27 years as a photographer & traveler. The retrospective contains moments, which has something dreamlike for him.

In 'The Screw', Akihito YOSHIDA shows people who make the 'screws' of ships in small workshop in Bangladesh. They work together to create a cold, hard metal by pouring molten red liquid, like magma, into the pitch-black ground, covered with iron sand.

In his out-of-print photographic volume 'A Song for Windows', Takashi HOMMA documents the primitive island where the author Tove Jansson and her partner spent their summer together. The out-of-print photographic volume is designed like a children's book.

In Daido MORIYAMA's photo book 'Ango', the pictures of the famous Japanese photographer are placed alongside Ango Sakaguchi's famous short story 'In the Forest, Beneath Cherries in Full Bloom'.

This out-of-print German-language monograph, 'Chewing Gum and Chocolate', about the work of the Japanese post-war photographer Shomei TOMATSU provides a good overview of the work of one of the most important Japanese photographers of the 20th century.

SC (no dust jacket, as issued), 21 x 30 cm., 144 pp., color ills., with biographical notes, text language: English, Ltd. to only 250 copies

HC, 30 x 26 cm., 132 pp.

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.