Background information
"Mikiko HARA takes her photographs without using a viewfinder. She sees and photographs her subjects without looking at the image through the viewfinder. She uses a German-made 'Ikonta' camera from the 1930s. Since she first encountered this classic camera in the mid 1990s, she has made the square-format snapshot into her own photographic style. The photographer always has this lightweight, easy to carry, and quiet camera with her in her bag as she walks the streets. Mikiko HARA photographs the nonchalant figures of fleeting passersby, as well as the landscapes and material things that emerge and disappear before her eyes wherever she goes. In those places she has come upon by chance, she quietly releases the shutter. She gambles on the accumulation of chance that is the technique of the snapshot. Each of the moments that have been retained among the hordes of photographs resonates with the fragments of memory within the viewer, arousing feelings which precede words.
Content
The publication 'These are days' by Mikiko HARA contains twenty-five recent photographs, and is her 2nd photo volume, following 'Hysteric 13: Mikiko Hara'" (publisher's note, © Osiris, 2014)
About Japanese photographer Mikiko HARA (b.1967)
Photo books by Mikiko HARA
- Book design
- Kazunari HATTORI
- Format
- Pb., 21 x 27 x 0,5 cm., 32 pp., 25 color ills., text language: English (no text, only details)