Photographs

First edition of Photographs by Toshio Shibata. First impression. Medium format hardback in near fine condition. Some very minor shelf wear to the top edge of the dust jacket only. Signed by the artist on the title page.

About

A collection of photographs by Toshio Shibata, a leading Japanese photographer, who majored in painting at Tokyo University of the Arts and later studied photography at the Royal Academy of Belgium. Japan's unique landscape photography based on sharp sensitivity to "shape" and "form" has gained high praise from around the world. The elaborately constructed dams and various structures are full of uniformity and beauty in form, which is described as land art, against the background of high technology backed by Japanese handicrafts. On the other hand, the contrast between natural objects that have been destroyed in accordance with human material needs and artificial objects that are inconsistent also has a glimpse of journalism that sounds like an alarm to natural destruction. Nature / artificial / craft / art / protection / destruction. Shibata's illustrations, which contain a variety of messages, are full of the multi-faceted charms of photography and are one of the symbols of modern Japan. This book is a representative work of Toshio Shibata, a 1st photo book published in 1992, who received the 17th Kimura Ihei Award. It consists of illustrations taken in the countryside of Japan in the 1980s and early 1990s.