There has been a lot of talk about “Japanese Photobooks of the 1960s and ’70s”, and now that I hold one of them in my hands I totally understand the reasons for the applause. If you are interested in photobooks this is definitively a must-have book. But do not take my word for it, have a look here:
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The British Journal of Photography
… and here is an interview with Ivan Vartanian, one of the authors, on japan exposures, who said that “apart from helping the reader learn how to understand Japanese photography books, I want them to know how essential it is to Japanese photography. It’s very different from western photography, which has this idea that photographs must exist as a print. Japanese photography, in its ultimate form, is the photobook. Communicating that simple idea, to even a Japanese audience, is the main homework of this project. And you’d be amazed how revolutionary that idea is to people who are well versed in photography in the West.”
I will be showing some of the work featured inside this wonderful survey in “photography & Illustration” next.
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