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Photo book | Imitation Bijou
Hardcover 15.5 x 11.6, 190 pages
Published by DOOKS (June 2019) 4,600yen (+tax 5,060 yen)
Regular version 300 copies・30 special editions (acrylic case with print)
Photos and text | Atsuko Susuki
Text by | Kotaro Iizawa (photography critic)
Translation by|Robert Zetzsche
Design | Daichi Aijima
Printing/Binding|SunM Color
Printing Director | Takao Maekawa
鈴木敦子の近作の中から、抽象的でありながら読者一人ひとりの想像力を強く喚起する力を持つ写真を16枚選出し、日本語の記録媒体として近世まで存在し、伝統的な日本画の表現形態として現在も用いられる「巻物」として一連のシークエンスにまとめた写真集。中央の写真を鑑賞するとき、前の写真の余韻と次の写真の予兆をも感じさせられ、ひと繋がりの視覚的時間を深く経験することになる。本文の各紙葉は、高品質なレーザープリントの長尺出力で印刷され、ラフなミシン縫いで連結されている。表紙は少し厚い紙が使用されているが、全体の雰囲気は、古典的な巻物にありがちな重厚感を避けて、繊細かつ日常的なものとなるように、留め具の仕様や紐の素材と結び方が慎重にデザインされている。巻物の読み方の特徴ともいえるゆっくりと広げられながら鑑賞されることによって、読者ひとりひとりの記憶にまで深く浸透し、共振することが期待されている。
Photo book|Appear
Scroll books 27cm x 7m 3,500 yen (+tax 3,850 yen)
Text by |「The light that shines into the world "Takahiro Ito (Curator, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography)
Translation by|Robert Zetzsche
Design|Shin Akiyama + Keiko Miyahara/edition.nord
Printing/binding|chiku chiku laboratory kobe
Publisher|edition.nord
From Atsuko Susuki's recent works, 16 photographs with the power to strongly evoke individual readers' imaginations while being abstractly selected, were compiled into a photo book in the form of a makimono, a horizontal hand scroll, a traditional Japanese expression format that has existed as a record medium in Japanese until modern times and is still used as a form of traditional Japanese painting. When viewing the central photograph, one is made to feel the lingering of the previous photograph and the foreshadowing of the next, experiencing a deeply connected visual time sequence. Each paper leaf of the main text is printed with high-quality laser printing for long-length output and bound to the cover with rough stitching, with text pages sewn in at the end. Although slightly thick paper is used for the cover, the overall atmosphere is delicately and daily designed to avoid the heaviness commonly associated with classical scrolls, with careful consideration given to the specifications and material and tying method of the fastener. By being slowly unfolded and appreciated, a characteristic way of reading scrolls, it is expected that readers will deeply penetrate and resonate with their memories, each and every one of them.