Each bookstore will act as a concierge, recommending "the book you should read right now" to FASHION HEADLINE readers. Every Saturday, we will introduce books selected by Shelf, a Harajuku bookstore specializing in foreign books (3-7-4 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo).



■ "The Photographer in the Garden"

This book contains an incredibly wide range of "garden photographs," from famous gardens to obscure home gardens, and from artist's photographs to vintage snapshots. The experience of looking at them is like wandering through a "garden of photographs."

As if to reflect this, the names of the photographers featured in this book are diverse. The works of Anna Atkins, Karl Blossfeldt, Eugène Atget, Edward Steichen, Imogen Cunningham, Edward Weston, Lee Friedlander, Stephen Shore, Robert Mapplethorpe, Nobuyoshi Araki, and Collier Schorr offer a new experience that retraces the entire history of photography from a different perspective: the garden.


Further aiding in understanding the works in this book are the commentary by Sarah Anne McNear and the essay by Jamie Allen. Sarah Anna McNear is a photography expert with over 30 years of experience in community-based photography education at museums and nonprofit organizations, while Jamie Allen served as curator at the George Eastman Museum in New York, where he has been involved in numerous curatorial and collection conservation projects.