MIZUWARI
Format:Spiral bound
Publisher:Hemeria
Publishing:18th Sep '25
£39.00
This title is due to be published on 18th September, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
How do you tell the story of a country, and even more so of a city as fantasised as Tokyo, if not by getting up close and personal with the people who live there? Following in the footsteps of the masters of Japanese photography from Provok and the French humanist photographers, Bruno Labarbère takes us on a deep-black wander through the streets and alleys of Japan’s capital, following the rhythm of the mizuwari as he meets them.
"Mizuwari plunges us into the bowels of emotions and sensations where place and time have no more meaning than a fleeting afterthought. Images of the subconscious all seem to surface from memories coming from an unknown land. The black ink of night, the sweet nostalgic rise of dawn and the irrationally rational days of Tokyo all fuse together to create a confusion of past, present and future existences. Bruno’s fractal images of Tokyo’s multi-layered worlds seem to suck us into a whirlpool of fragile kimonos and high heels, urban waste, sandwiched subway bodies, umbrellas floating among gravity-defying architecture, 1 dancing children, slurping noodles, lovers’ embrace, smoking cigarettes, a towering sea turtle and Godzilla, naked manga girls, luminous faces glued to mobile screens …" — Diana LUI
ISBN: 9782490952472
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: unknown
800 pages