Each bookstore will act as a concierge, recommending "the book you should read now" to FASHION HEADLINE readers. Every Tuesday, Shimada Foreign Books, a visual foreign book store based in Minami-Aoyama, Tokyo (5-5-25 Minami-Aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo, T-PLACE, 1F A103), will introduce recommended books.

■ "IRINA WERNING'S BACK TO THE FUTURE" Irina Werning

This humorous collection compiles the portrait photography project "Back to the Future" by Buenos Aires photographer Irina Werning.

What would happen if you recreated photos from the past in the present? Her interesting ideas have garnered a great response and photo shoot requests from around the world, and she has taken photos in over 30 countries to date. This book features photos of the same people in the same outfits, taken approximately 30 years later, side by side with older photos.

For example, the cover features a portrait of a boy photographed in 1983 and a young man 28 years later. The same glasses are much smaller, and you can see that his nose, teeth, and beard have all grown.

The reproduction of the photograph is astonishingly faithful, capturing the blurry vintage feel, tears, and shape of the photograph, and if the same clothes or location did not exist, the artist even went to great lengths to find or create them. The subject has grown up, yet is in the same environment. It is as if his past self has come directly to the present day in the future.

This is a captivating book that explores human growth and the fascinating world of photography through a variety of unique works created by the past and present.

【Book information】
"IRINA WERNING'S BACK TO THE FUTURE"
Author: LIRINA WERNING
Publisher: teNeues
Language: English, German, French, and Spanish
Hardcover / 160 pages / 260 x 210 x 20 mm
Published: 2014
Price: 6,780 yen