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Jun Morinaga - River, its shadow of shadows (河 累影 | 森永純) , Yūgensha, 1978, Tokyo

 

Hardcover, cloth bound in printed slipcase, in cardboard shipping box (not shown), signed. Design by Kohei Sugiura and Kazushi Suzuki. Texts by W. Eugene Smith, Masashi Ichikawa, Koichi Tanikawa, Seigo Matsuoka.

"Jun Morinaga’s photography in River: Its Shadow of Shadows is wholly devoid of all presence of people. Any traces
of humans seem to be absorbed by the dark waters he has photographed, which are mostly the many rivers that run through Tokyo. This absence enables his images to freely range between near abstraction and evocations of images and emotions, as the water’s surface texture changes— alternately appearing metallic, muddy, foamy, or evoking a screen, tar, a crater on the surface of the moon, keratoid scars on flesh, or a scene of devastation." (Kaneko/Vartanian, Japanes Photobooks of the 1960s AND ’70s)

Pages: 168
Place: Tokyo
Year: 1978
Publisher: Yūgensha
Size: 28 x 31 cm (approx.)







Jun Morinaga River, its shadow of shadows (河 累影 | 森永純)

Jun Morinaga River, its shadow of shadows (河 累影 | 森永純)

Jun Morinaga River, its shadow of shadows (河 累影 | 森永純)

Jun Morinaga River, its shadow of shadows (河 累影 | 森永純)

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Jun Morinaga River, its shadow of shadows (河 累影 | 森永純)

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Hardcover, cloth bound in printed slipcase, in cardboard shipping box (not shown), signed. Design by Kohei Sugiura and Kazushi Suzuki. Texts by W. Eugene Smith, Masashi Ichikawa, Koichi Tanikawa, Seigo Matsuoka.

"Jun Morinaga’s photography in River: Its Shadow of Shadows is wholly devoid of all presence of people. Any traces
of humans seem to be absorbed by the dark waters he has photographed, which are mostly the many rivers that run through Tokyo. This absence enables his images to freely range between near abstraction and evocations of images and emotions, as the water’s surface texture changes— alternately appearing metallic, muddy, foamy, or evoking a screen, tar, a crater on the surface of the moon, keratoid scars on flesh, or a scene of devastation." (Kaneko/Vartanian, Japanes Photobooks of the 1960s AND ’70s)

Pages: 168
Place: Tokyo
Year: 1978
Publisher: Yūgensha
Size: 28 x 31 cm (approx.)