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This set of four signed, very different photo volumes - 'Shimagatari', 'Cascade', 'Dreaming' and 'By the Sea' - all by Japanese photographer Yasuhiro OGAWA offers a very deeper understanding in his work as well as in the Younger Japanese Color & Blacknwhite Photography.
Content
The first photo volume, 'Shimagatari' by Yasuhiro OGAWA contains landscape photography in black and white which refers to Japanese 1970's photography, especially on Issei SUDA's work. This work is a little mystic and the photographs are coarse-grained. 'Shimagatari' is from 2014. Before another work in black and white, 'The Dreaming' (2020), Yasuhiro OGAWA released two publications in color, 'Cascade' & 'By the Sea'. 'Cascade' has a personal topic which refers to his own youth: 'Sorting through her apartment after the death of his mother in April 2016, Yasuhiro OGAWA found several reels of 8mm films. He projected the films onto a wall in her last living space, re-wound, and watched them again, this time with a camera in his hand.' 'Cascade' breathes the pre-digital spirit of the seventies and eighties and the photographs of Super-8 film has something from the Polaroid and Kodak-color era. 'By the Sea' (2018) is outstanding from the other books because of its format as a huge sized booklet. Here color and b/w works of landscapes and still-lifes are standing together. The format needs (and allows) to spend more time with these artistic photographs. Last but not least, the 4th volume, 'The Dreaming' is a return to black and white photographs in one book. Here the contrast aren't so high like in 'Shimagatari' and the tactile moment is quite different because 'The Dreaming' was published in brochure format and not as a hard covered book.