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Seiji Kurata - Flash Up, Zen Foto Gallery, 2013, Tokyo

 

Thus I have maintained a continuing dialogue with the camera accompanying me. Through constantly shifting reality and phenomenon, for 35 years I have continued as in a dream the camera work and techniques that could at any time become obsolete. However, Flash Up has a style, an attitude and consciousness that did not change from the beginning. It was accumulated during those four years after starting Street Photo Random in 1975. Above all, in the production of these “snapshot” photographs I searched for footholds whose existence was unknown, while ignoring the haphazardly distributed noise and information of our everyday world. It was a compellingly thrilling ordeal and, being at times on the receiving end of not a little wonderful needle that acted as a further stimulus, I have ploughed my own furrow.

 (And yet, this world of photography is amazing. Here is the strangeness of the unknown and the surprise of the unforeseen. Even though it lasts only a moment, this brightly shining band that stretches across the sky, it can tell the story of all existence, all affirmed and all accepted. (Seiji Kurata)

Hardcover with slipcase, edition of 750 copies. Reprint.

Pages: 184
Place: Tokyo
Year: 2013
Publisher: Zen Foto Gallery
Size: 26 x 37 cm (approx.)


Included in "The Photobook: A History Volume I" by Parr/Badger
>> see more Vol. I picks here






 Seiji Kurata - Flash Up (Slipcase spine)

Seiji Kurata - Flash Up (Slipcase spine)

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Seiji Kurata - Flash Up (Slipcase back)

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Seiji Kurata - Flash Up (Front)

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Seiji Kurata - Flash Up (Spine)

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Seiji Kurata - Flash Up (Back)




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Thus I have maintained a continuing dialogue with the camera accompanying me. Through constantly shifting reality and phenomenon, for 35 years I have continued as in a dream the camera work and techniques that could at any time become obsolete. However, Flash Up has a style, an attitude and consciousness that did not change from the beginning. It was accumulated during those four years after starting Street Photo Random in 1975. Above all, in the production of these “snapshot” photographs I searched for footholds whose existence was unknown, while ignoring the haphazardly distributed noise and information of our everyday world. It was a compellingly thrilling ordeal and, being at times on the receiving end of not a little wonderful needle that acted as a further stimulus, I have ploughed my own furrow.

 (And yet, this world of photography is amazing. Here is the strangeness of the unknown and the surprise of the unforeseen. Even though it lasts only a moment, this brightly shining band that stretches across the sky, it can tell the story of all existence, all affirmed and all accepted. (Seiji Kurata)

Hardcover with slipcase, edition of 750 copies. Reprint.

Pages: 184
Place: Tokyo
Year: 2013
Publisher: Zen Foto Gallery
Size: 26 x 37 cm (approx.)


Included in "The Photobook: A History Volume I" by Parr/Badger
>> see more Vol. I picks here