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"Tamiko NISHIMURA's photo book 'Voyage' shows in chronological order from 1987 to 2018 around 40 previously unpublished silver gelatin prints of trips through the Middle East, Asia and Europe. In her b/w photographs, NISHIMURA captured moments from the following countries (cities, year):
China (Qingdao, 2008), Hong Kong (1987), Macau (2008), South Korea (Seoul/Daejeon/Buzan, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2012), Thailand (Bangkok/Phuket, 1996, 1999), Vietnam (Hanoi, 2003), Turkey (Ankara/Istanbul/Antalya/Izmir, 1995), Austria (Vienna, 2003), Czech Republic (Prague, 2011), France (Paris/Normandy, 2010, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018), Great Britain (London, 1993, 1995, 2004, 2011), Italy (Sardinia/Rome, 2013), Netherlands (Amsterdam, 1993), Portugal (Lisbon/Porto, 1993), Slovenia (Ljubljana, 2003).
With a thoughtfulness that will be familiar to readers of her previous photobooks, in her photographs Tamiko NISHIMURA approaches her subjects – strangers, landscapes, boats, animals, street scenes, the sea – with interest and understanding, both conscious and accepting of the fact that her photographs can only hint at the deeper truths behind what they depict rather than try to offer simple truths.
Tamiko NISHIMURA'S photo book 'Voyage' is not a collection of travel impressions but a manifold portrait of life wherever NISHIMURA encountered it. These are photos that make the world seem richer because her language of expression is poetic, spiritual and deeply personal.
Looking back on her career, NISHIMURA describes it as a sequence of journeys, and she continued photographing with her nomadic lifestyle." (publisher's note, © Zen Gallery, 2019)
"Traveling in Asia somehow makes me feel nostalgic. Back before I started elementary school, my mother forbid me to cross the Tabata Bridge over the nearby Jakuzure River.
Beyond that was a big street busy with car traffic, but I just had to know what lay on the other side, so I ventured out alone without telling her. Over there were houses and a Buddhist nunnery. To the left were woods, deep green and gloomy even in daytime. My 'wolf forest,' I called it.
Further on I came to the No. 7 Ring Route, which was still unpaved at the time, though daunting enough to make me turn back. My expectations toward crossing the boundary, as well as my sheer wonder about how such places so steeped in secrets might actually connect with my secure, normal world, brought a subtle thrill to each step I took. There’s something of that feeling when I think back on my travels in Asia, the notion of nearby foreign lands just across a bridge.
The Jakuzure River of my memories was paved over in the 1970s and is now a strolling lane. (...)
The spring of 1993 I quit a three-year stint as an editor, and went that summer to Portugal. A friend of mine had majored in Portuguese at college and before I knew it she’d talked me into traveling with her.
We headed north from Lisbon to Guimarães, then caught an overnight train from Porto down south to Praia da Rocha. By the time we got back to Lisbon, the seasons had changed and the streets were aflutter with falling leaves. I believe it was this Portugal trip that set me on a course of travel and taking photographs in foreign countries. (...)
I went to Honfleur in Normandy, the hometown of Erik Satie where Françoise Sagan owned a villa in her later years. I also stopped by Étretat where supposedly lived master thief Arsène Lupin, a favorite fictional character from my childhood.
Then in 2011 it was off to Prague, all because of one short line my great-uncle wrote in his memoir: 'Visited the Jewish cemetery in Prague.'
Or again, that trip to Sardinia in 2013 was set in motion because I recalled a villain in an American movie had said he was from Sardinia. Some detail one might just as easily forget lingers in the mind, only to pique a fancy to head off somewhere." (© Tamiko NISHIMURA, in: Travels and Memory' from the afterword of 'Voyage')
About the photographer, Tamiko NISHIMURA (b. 1948 in Tokyo):
Tamiko NISHIMURA graduated from Tokyo Photography College (current Tokyo Visual Arts) in 1969. Her graduation work was a photography series of 'Jōkyō Gekijo' (Engl.: Situation Theatre), forefront of the underground theatre movement led by Jūrō Kara.
After her graduation, she met Daido MORIYAMA, Kōji Taki and Takuma NAKAHIRA, three highly influential members of the 'Provoke' movement. She assisted them in the darkroom from time to time up until 1972, while she continued her personal shooting on her travels.
Later in 1973, NISHIMURA made her debut through the first publication 'Shikishima' published by Tokyo Photography College, showcasing her photographs taken from 1969 to 1972 on her journeys around Japan including Hokkaidō, Tōhoku, Hokuriku, Kantō, Kansai and Chūgoku regions.
She also began to travel to Southeastern Asia and Europe in the 1980s.
Other publications by the photographer, Tamiko NISHIMURA, are:
'Shikishima” (1973. re-printed in 2014),
'Vent calmoso' (2005),
'Existence 1968-69 (2011),
'Eternal Chase' (2012),
'Kittenish...' (2015),
'My Journey' (2018).
Her works are included in the collection of M+ museum (Hong Kong).
"Tamiko NISHIMURA's photo book 'Voyage' shows in chronological order from 1987 to 2018 around 40 previously unpublished silver gelatin prints of trips through the Middle East, Asia and Europe. In her b/w photographs, NISHIMURA captured moments from the following countries (cities, year):
China (Qingdao, 2008), Hong Kong (1987), Macau (2008), South Korea (Seoul/Daejeon/Buzan, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2012), Thailand (Bangkok/Phuket, 1996, 1999), Vietnam (Hanoi, 2003), Turkey (Ankara/Istanbul/Antalya/Izmir, 1995), Austria (Vienna, 2003), Czech Republic (Prague, 2011), France (Paris/Normandy, 2010, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018), Great Britain (London, 1993, 1995, 2004, 2011), Italy (Sardinia/Rome, 2013), Netherlands (Amsterdam, 1993), Portugal (Lisbon/Porto, 1993), Slovenia (Ljubljana, 2003).
With a thoughtfulness that will be familiar to readers of her previous photobooks, in her photographs Tamiko NISHIMURA approaches her subjects – strangers, landscapes, boats, animals, street scenes, the sea – with interest and understanding, both conscious and accepting of the fact that her photographs can only hint at the deeper truths behind what they depict rather than try to offer simple truths.
Tamiko NISHIMURA'S photo book 'Voyage' is not a collection of travel impressions but a manifold portrait of life wherever NISHIMURA encountered it. These are photos that make the world seem richer because her language of expression is poetic, spiritual and deeply personal.
Looking back on her career, NISHIMURA describes it as a sequence of journeys, and she continued photographing with her nomadic lifestyle." (publisher's note, © Zen Gallery, 2019)
"Traveling in Asia somehow makes me feel nostalgic. Back before I started elementary school, my mother forbid me to cross the Tabata Bridge over the nearby Jakuzure River.
Beyond that was a big street busy with car traffic, but I just had to know what lay on the other side, so I ventured out alone without telling her. Over there were houses and a Buddhist nunnery. To the left were woods, deep green and gloomy even in daytime. My 'wolf forest,' I called it.
Further on I came to the No. 7 Ring Route, which was still unpaved at the time, though daunting enough to make me turn back. My expectations toward crossing the boundary, as well as my sheer wonder about how such places so steeped in secrets might actually connect with my secure, normal world, brought a subtle thrill to each step I took. There’s something of that feeling when I think back on my travels in Asia, the notion of nearby foreign lands just across a bridge.
The Jakuzure River of my memories was paved over in the 1970s and is now a strolling lane. (...)
The spring of 1993 I quit a three-year stint as an editor, and went that summer to Portugal. A friend of mine had majored in Portuguese at college and before I knew it she’d talked me into traveling with her.
We headed north from Lisbon to Guimarães, then caught an overnight train from Porto down south to Praia da Rocha. By the time we got back to Lisbon, the seasons had changed and the streets were aflutter with falling leaves. I believe it was this Portugal trip that set me on a course of travel and taking photographs in foreign countries. (...)
I went to Honfleur in Normandy, the hometown of Erik Satie where Françoise Sagan owned a villa in her later years. I also stopped by Étretat where supposedly lived master thief Arsène Lupin, a favorite fictional character from my childhood.
Then in 2011 it was off to Prague, all because of one short line my great-uncle wrote in his memoir: 'Visited the Jewish cemetery in Prague.'
Or again, that trip to Sardinia in 2013 was set in motion because I recalled a villain in an American movie had said he was from Sardinia. Some detail one might just as easily forget lingers in the mind, only to pique a fancy to head off somewhere." (© Tamiko NISHIMURA, in: Travels and Memory' from the afterword of 'Voyage')
About the photographer, Tamiko NISHIMURA (b. 1948 in Tokyo):
Tamiko NISHIMURA graduated from Tokyo Photography College (current Tokyo Visual Arts) in 1969. Her graduation work was a photography series of 'Jōkyō Gekijo' (Engl.: Situation Theatre), forefront of the underground theatre movement led by Jūrō Kara.
After her graduation, she met Daido MORIYAMA, Kōji Taki and Takuma NAKAHIRA, three highly influential members of the 'Provoke' movement. She assisted them in the darkroom from time to time up until 1972, while she continued her personal shooting on her travels.
Later in 1973, NISHIMURA made her debut through the first publication 'Shikishima' published by Tokyo Photography College, showcasing her photographs taken from 1969 to 1972 on her journeys around Japan including Hokkaidō, Tōhoku, Hokuriku, Kantō, Kansai and Chūgoku regions.
She also began to travel to Southeastern Asia and Europe in the 1980s.
Other publications by the photographer, Tamiko NISHIMURA, are:
'Shikishima” (1973. re-printed in 2014),
'Vent calmoso' (2005),
'Existence 1968-69 (2011),
'Eternal Chase' (2012),
'Kittenish...' (2015),
'My Journey' (2018).
Her works are included in the collection of M+ museum (Hong Kong).
- Format
- HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 22 x 26,5 x 2,5 cm., 264 pp., 266 b/w ills., 1.250 gr., bilingual texts: English / Japanese - Ltd. to only 500 copies