Our Thursday series features must-read books from each branch of the art bookshop NADiff. This week's book is Yamazaki Hiroshi's "Yamazaki Hiroshi: Plan and Coincidence." NADiff BAITEN, the museum shop located within the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum in Ebisu, Tokyo (2nd floor, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Ebisu Garden Place, 1-13-3 Mita, Meguro-ku, Tokyo), introduces the book.
■ "Yamazaki Hiroshi: Plan and Coincidence" by Yamazaki Hiroshi
He came to the realization that "what I should do" was "not to search for a subject, but to do something that would not be possible without the relationship between me and my camera." -- (Excerpt from page 160 of this book)
Yamazaki Hiroshi is a photographer and filmmaker. Born in Nagano Prefecture in 1946. He began taking up photography seriously in his early twenties, shooting portraits and works by artists he was acquainted with at the time, including Shuji Terayama, Tatsumi Hijikata, and Genpei Akasegawa. However, he began to question the act of simply searching for a good subject and began exploring a form of photography that wasn't limited to a specific subject. He sees photography and video as a relationship between light and time, and has derived various methodologies from this.
Yamazaki often employs long exposure techniques, in which a shutter, which normally opens and closes instantaneously, is left open for more than a second (several hours in Yamazaki's case) to capture the appropriate amount of light. In his signature work, "HELIOGRAPHY," he photographs the sun through a powerful filter, its trajectory clearly emerging, truly resembling a "sun painting." His video works, in which the camera is moved slightly to capture the sun in the same position, also demonstrate a deliberate approach. Other examples include works in which an image was projected onto a copy machine using a lens and mirror, then printed by pressing the start button; and works capturing ripples, hands, and cherry blossoms using a technique called photograms, which are taken in the dark (darkroom) by shining light directly onto photographic paper. Yamazaki's work explores the contradictions inherent in both photography, which aims to capture a moment in time, and video, which aims to capture a certain action over a certain period of time. This book is the official catalog for the exhibition of the same name currently being held at the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum. It also includes new works not included in the exhibition, so we recommend viewing it in conjunction with the exhibition.
【Book Information】
"Yamazaki Hiroshi: Plan and Coincidence"
Author: Yamazaki Hiroshi
Publisher: Musashino Art University Press
Language: Japanese
Hardcover / 192 pages / A4
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Price: 2,750 yen
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【Exhibition Information】
"Yamazaki Hiroshi: Plan and Coincidence"
Venue: Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, 2nd Floor Exhibition Room
Address: Ebisu Garden Place, 1-13-3 Mita, Meguro-ku, Tokyo
Dates: March 7 - May 10
Hours: 10:00 - 18:00 (Thursdays and Fridays until 20:00, last admission 30 minutes before closing)
Admission fee: Adults 600 yen (480 yen), Students 500 yen (400 yen), Junior and senior high school students and those 65 and over 400 yen (320 yen), Free for elementary school students and younger, junior high school students living or studying in Tokyo, and those with disabilities and their caregivers * ( ) indicates the price for groups of 20 or more, Free for those 65 and over on the third Wednesday of the month Closed: Mondays (If Monday is a national holiday, the following Tuesday and May 1st are also closed)
