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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STIGMA (signed)
by Antoine d'Agata
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A Perpetual Season
by Gregoire Pujade - Lauraine
Euro 39 -
Olifantenpaadjes (signed)
by Jan Dirk van der Burg
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Nein, Onkel (last copy)
by various photographers
Euro 165 -
be happy!
by Igor Samolet
Euro 25 15.00 -
The 3rd Person Archive (last two copies)
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Euro 165
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If Such be the Case
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Euro 55 -
One Picture Book 90: Self (signed + print)
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And, do you still hear the peacocks?
by Miho Kajioka
Euro 229 -
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by Miyako Ishiuchi
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Infinity
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by Andreas Weinand
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by Christian Patterson
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by Mike Brodie
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by Jo Ractliffe
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by Martin Parr & Gerry Badger
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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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STIGMA (signed)
by Antoine d'Agata
Euro 350 -
A Perpetual Season
by Gregoire Pujade - Lauraine
Euro 39 -
Olifantenpaadjes (signed)
by Jan Dirk van der Burg
sold out -
Nein, Onkel (last copy)
by various photographers
Euro 165 -
be happy!
by Igor Samolet
Euro 25 15.00 -
The 3rd Person Archive (last two copies)
by John Stezaker
Euro 165
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If Such be the Case
by Eri Tatara
Euro 55 -
One Picture Book 90: Self (signed + print)
by Daido Moriyama
sold out -
Kirakira Rinko Kawauchi - Leiko Ikemura
by Rinko Kawauchi
sold out -
And, do you still hear the peacocks?
by Miho Kajioka
Euro 229 -
From Hiroshima
by Miyako Ishiuchi
sold out -
Infinity
by Miyako Ishiuchi
sold out
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Colossal Youth (last copy
by Andreas Weinand
Euro 95 -
Redheaded Peckerwood
by Christian Patterson
sold out -
A Period of Juvenile Prosperity (first edition - review copy)
by Mike Brodie
Euro 220 154.00 -
As Terras do Fim do Mundo (last two copies)
by Jo Ractliffe
Euro 85 -
The Photobook: A History Volume III
by Martin Parr & Gerry Badger
sold out -
The Photobook: A History Volume I (pre-order)
by Martin Parr & Gerry Badger
sold out
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