home (signed)
by Tomoyuki Sakaguchi
Photographs: Tomoyuki Sakaguchi
Publisher: Sokyu-sha
84 pages
Pictures: 57 colour photographs
Year: 2007
Comments: Hardcover. Photographically illustrated gloss paper covered boards. Design by Koichi Hara and Takao Watanabe. 22cm x 31cm,
This Japanese photographer eloquently explores suburban scenes in and around Tokyo. With an eye that is both disquieting and beautiful, he is one of the many photographers contributing to the revival of interest in night shooting.
Martin Parr
--Martin Parr’s Best Books of the Decade: PhotoIreland Festival 2011
On overnight bike explorations of the Tokyo suburb of Tama where he lives, photographer Tomoyuki Sakaguchi creates a waking dream. Making long exposures with his digital camera, Sakaguchi transforms the tidiness of suburbia into a colorful dreamscape where cars seem to be the only inhabitants, and even they are asleep.
Tama is the location of Japan’s largest planned residential development, opened in 1971 on the heels of the Japanese post-war economic boom. In contemporary art and literature such planned communities often come to represent the notion of the soulless uniformity of the commuting class. Sakaguchi’s Tama is a more nuanced place, a place of beauty and magic and even whimsy. Still, there is an eerie evocation of surveillance inherent in these nocturnal images, made while Tama’s residents sleep unawares, which reminds us that any sense of privacy, individuality or autonomy we have in modern culture may well be illusory. JL --2007 Aperture Portfolio Prize Runner-up
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home (signed)
by Tomoyuki Sakaguchi
Photographs: Tomoyuki Sakaguchi
Publisher: Sokyu-sha
84 pages
Pictures: 57 colour photographs
Year: 2007
Comments: Hardcover. Photographically illustrated gloss paper covered boards. Design by Koichi Hara and Takao Watanabe. 22cm x 31cm,
This Japanese photographer eloquently explores suburban scenes in and around Tokyo. With an eye that is both disquieting and beautiful, he is one of the many photographers contributing to the revival of interest in night shooting.
Martin Parr
--Martin Parr’s Best Books of the Decade: PhotoIreland Festival 2011
On overnight bike explorations of the Tokyo suburb of Tama where he lives, photographer Tomoyuki Sakaguchi creates a waking dream. Making long exposures with his digital camera, Sakaguchi transforms the tidiness of suburbia into a colorful dreamscape where cars seem to be the only inhabitants, and even they are asleep.
Tama is the location of Japan’s largest planned residential development, opened in 1971 on the heels of the Japanese post-war economic boom. In contemporary art and literature such planned communities often come to represent the notion of the soulless uniformity of the commuting class. Sakaguchi’s Tama is a more nuanced place, a place of beauty and magic and even whimsy. Still, there is an eerie evocation of surveillance inherent in these nocturnal images, made while Tama’s residents sleep unawares, which reminds us that any sense of privacy, individuality or autonomy we have in modern culture may well be illusory. JL --2007 Aperture Portfolio Prize Runner-up
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by Martin Parr & Gerry Badger
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Algeria (last copy)
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home (signed)
by Tomoyuki Sakaguchi
Photographs: Tomoyuki Sakaguchi
Publisher: Sokyu-sha
84 pages
Pictures: 57 colour photographs
Year: 2007
Comments: Hardcover. Photographically illustrated gloss paper covered boards. Design by Koichi Hara and Takao Watanabe. 22cm x 31cm,
This Japanese photographer eloquently explores suburban scenes in and around Tokyo. With an eye that is both disquieting and beautiful, he is one of the many photographers contributing to the revival of interest in night shooting.
Martin Parr
--Martin Parr’s Best Books of the Decade: PhotoIreland Festival 2011
On overnight bike explorations of the Tokyo suburb of Tama where he lives, photographer Tomoyuki Sakaguchi creates a waking dream. Making long exposures with his digital camera, Sakaguchi transforms the tidiness of suburbia into a colorful dreamscape where cars seem to be the only inhabitants, and even they are asleep.
Tama is the location of Japan’s largest planned residential development, opened in 1971 on the heels of the Japanese post-war economic boom. In contemporary art and literature such planned communities often come to represent the notion of the soulless uniformity of the commuting class. Sakaguchi’s Tama is a more nuanced place, a place of beauty and magic and even whimsy. Still, there is an eerie evocation of surveillance inherent in these nocturnal images, made while Tama’s residents sleep unawares, which reminds us that any sense of privacy, individuality or autonomy we have in modern culture may well be illusory. JL --2007 Aperture Portfolio Prize Runner-up
Mentioned by Parr / Badger THE PHOTOBOOK: A HISTORY Volume III
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by Shoji Ueda
sold out -
Issan (signed)
by Eriko Koga
Euro 50 -
Tokoyo no mushi (signed)
by Hara Yoshiichi
sold out -
Frida by Ishiuchi
by Miyako Ishiuchi
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On Daily Life
by Shiho Yanagimoto
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KUMOGAKURE ONSEN : Reclusive Travels (signed+print)
by Masakazu Murakami
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by Antoine d'Agata
Euro 350 -
be happy!
by Igor Samolet
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Nein, Onkel
by various photographers
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be happy! - special edition (book + signed print)
by Igor Samolet
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A Perpetual Season
by Gregoire Pujade - Lauraine
Euro 39 -
Surfacing (review copy)
by Katinka Goldberg
Euro 75 37.50
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Redheaded Peckerwood
by Christian Patterson
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Mrs. Merryman's Collection
by Anne Sophie Merryman
Euro 95 -
The Photobook: A History Volume III
by Martin Parr & Gerry Badger
sold out -
Algeria (last copy)
by Dirk Alvermann
sold out -
The 3rd Person Archive (last two copies)
by John Stezaker
Euro 165 -
Land of Milk and Honey (German edition - signed)
by Paul Kranzler
Euro 45
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