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 Igor Samolet
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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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Lisboa, Cidade Triste e Alegre
by Costa Martins & Victor Palla
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Things here and things still to come (signed - last copy)
by José Pedro Cortes
Euro 250 -
A Perpetual Season
by Gregoire Pujade - Lauraine
Euro 39 -
Nein, Onkel (last copy)
by various photographers
Euro 165 -
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by Martin Parr & Gerry Badger
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STIGMA (signed)
by Antoine d'Agata
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Redheaded Peckerwood
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tragedy of a venus 1975
by Sanja Iveković
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Land of Milk and Honey (German edition - signed)
by Paul Kranzler
Euro 45 -
Algeria (last copy)
by Dirk Alvermann
sold out -
be happy! - special edition (book + signed print)
by Igor Samolet
sold out
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-
On Daily Life
by Shiho Yanagimoto
sold out -
Hokkaido
by Daido Moriyama
sold out -
An Album: The Everlasting Story
by Shoji Ueda
sold out -
Babel: Ordinary Landscapes (signed)
by Taishi Hirokawa
sold out -
Another Language: 8 Japanese Photographers
by various photographers
sold out -
Go There (signed)
by Gen Sakuma
Euro 60
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