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Background information
"The photo volume 'Yagi to toge' (Goat and Thorns) by Takashi HARA does not unlock itself to the viewer on the first quick browse-through. Its dark, slow photographs, taken with a medium-format Holga on black-and-white film, do not seem connected on first glance. But there is something about these pictures that hints at a deeper space hiding behind the surface; the longer one looks at the deep blacks and dazzling whites, the pictures reveal their true richness. As the pages add up and the impressions begin to overlap, he builds a strange new world of his own, of feelings like unease and allure – a world that evades being fully captured in words, one that can only be glanced at through photography.
Content
This photo volume, 'Yagi to toge' (Goat and Thorns) by Takashi HARA, consists of 94 quadrate black-and-white photographs in 'Shoji-UEDA-style'. With texts by Yoshitaka Takahashi and by Takashi HARA, both in Japanese and English
Additional information
The photographs are made with a Holga camera, the result is very different from other cameras. The book design is made by Katsuya KATO.