Each bookstore acts as a concierge, recommending "the book you should read now" to FASHION HEADLINE readers. Today, we will introduce books selected by Shelf (3-7-4 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo), a Harajuku bookshop that specializes in foreign books.



■ "LIGHT BREAK, PHOTOGRAPHY / LIGHT THERAPY"

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Nicolai Howalt

This is a collection of works by Denmark-based photographer Nicolai Howalt, who explores light therapy invented by Niels Finsen, the first Danish scientist to win a Nobel Prize, visualizing invisible light in full-color photographs and compiling it into a single book.

Howalt has said, "Photographs give people the unconscious impression that they are a reproduction of what is reflected in their eyes, but this attempt is almost the opposite," and this book was born from experimental consideration of what would happen if "invisible light," which we normally don't think about, were made "visible light."

The publisher, FABRIK BOOKS, is an independent publishing house that Howalt himself founded to coincide with the publication of this book. This is the first collection of works published by the publisher.

[Book Information]
"LIGHT BREAK, PHOTOGRAPHY / LIGHT THERAPY"
Author: Nicolai Howalt
Publisher: FABRIK BOOKS
Language: English
Hardcover / 256 pages / 270x230mm
Published: 2015
Price: 9,000 yen