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視覚と言葉のあいだをさまよう──ジェイソン・フルフォードの写真集

今回の記事では、「綿密に計画された偶然」が詰まった2006年の名作と、その制作背景を読み解くガイドブックをご紹介します。

 

「ジェイソン・フルフォードとは?」

ジェイソン・フルフォードは1973年アメリカ生まれの写真家。出版社「J&L Books」の共同設立者であり、写真家としてだけでなく、編集者・デザイナー・教育者としても活躍。彼の作品は、視覚言語としての「写真」を多角的に探求する姿勢に貫かれています。

今回ご紹介するのは、2006年に出版された彼のキャリア3冊目となる写真集です。1997年から2005年にかけて世界各地で撮影された写真から構成されており、ジャンルや物語を横断するような自由な編集がなされています。

 

 

Jason Fulford『RAISING FROGS FOR $$$』(2006年)

  綿密に計画された出来事が、それでもなお予測不可能であり続けるというアイデアが好きなんだ」

まるで一冊の中にいくつもの異なる本が詰め込まれているような感覚を覚えることでしょう。ページをめくるたびに、過去の記憶や未知の物語が立ち上がってはすり抜けていくような、不思議な浮遊感が漂います。見る者の解釈に委ねられた断片の連なりは、写真のもつ「語らなさ」が、むしろ豊かに世界を語るということを思い出させてくれます。

 

Notes on Fulford’s RAISING FROGS FOR $ $ $

Jason Fulford『Notes on Fulford’s RAISING FROGS FOR $ $ $』(2011年)

 

また、2011年に出版された冊子『Notes on Fulford’s RAISING FROGS FOR $ $ $』は、上記写真集のガイドブックとして位置付けられており、フルフォード自身の編集思考や制作プロセスが垣間見える貴重な資料です。

写真集の編集や構成に関する実践的な手がかりが詰まっており、写真集制作を志す人や、教育・研究目的で学びたい方にとても価値ある一冊です。

 

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[Exhibitor at Events] TOKIO ART BOOK FAIR 2025

IACK will be participating in the art book fair "TOKIO ART BOOK FAIR" to be held at Shiba Park Hotel in Tokyo from May 2nd to 4th.

This event will be an invitation-only exhibition, taking advantage of the space of Shiba Park Hotel, which has a "Library Hotel" concept, and aims to introduce the domestic and international independent publishing scene and promote interaction between participants.

IACK will be exhibiting alongside Overlapse, a London-based brand that has stocked the brand since the brand's inception, and Jane & Jeremy, a Brighton-based brand with whom the store owner, Kono Yukito, has connections as an artist.

Both are publishers that continue to produce unique photo books. Please come and visit us at Shiba Park Hotel during Golden Week.

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TOKIO ART BOOK FAIR 2025 by TOKYO ART BOOK FAIR
Date: May 2nd (Friday) - May 4th (Sunday), 2025
Venue: Shiba Park Hotel
Address: 1-5-10 Shiba Koen, Minato-ku, Tokyo

Event time
Friday, May 2nd 13:00-19:00
May 3rd (Sat) 12:00-19:00
May 4th (Sun) 12:00-19:00

*Last admission is 30 minutes before closing each day.

Admission tickets
General admission: 1,500 yen
Under 25 years old: 1,000 yen
Under 19: Free

*Tickets are available by reservation only.
*Tickets will not be sold on the day at the venue.
*Tickets will go on sale from 12:00 on Thursday, April 10th.

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[Exhibitor at Events] TOKIO ART BOOK FAIR 2025

IACK will be participating in the art book fair "TOKIO ART BOOK FAIR" to be held at Shiba Park Hotel in Tokyo from May 2nd to 4th.

This event will be an invitation-only exhibition, taking advantage of the space of Shiba Park Hotel, which has a "Library Hotel" concept, and aims to introduce the domestic and international independent publishing scene and promote interaction between participants.

IACK will be exhibiting alongside Overlapse, a London-based brand that has stocked the brand since the brand's inception, and Jane & Jeremy, a Brighton-based brand with whom the store owner, Kono Yukito, has connections as an artist.

Both are publishers that continue to produce unique photo books. Please come and visit us at Shiba Park Hotel during Golden Week.

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TOKIO ART BOOK FAIR 2025 by TOKYO ART BOOK FAIR
Date: May 2nd (Friday) to May 4th (Sunday), 2025
Venue: Shiba Park Hotel
Address: 1-5-10 Shiba Koen, Minato-ku, Tokyo

Event time
Friday, May 2nd 13:00-19:00
May 3rd (Sat) 12:00-19:00
May 4th (Sun) 12:00-19:00

*Last admission is 30 minutes before closing each day.

Admission tickets
General admission: 1,500 yen
Under 25 years old: 1,000 yen
Under 19: Free

*Tickets are available by reservation only.
*Tickets will not be sold on the day at the venue.
*Tickets will go on sale from 12:00 on Thursday, April 10th.

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Book Review: "Dry Eye Driping Stone" by Line Bøhmer Løkken

"Is there a book you would recommend?" is one of the most common questions I get asked when serving customers.

Since I buy books at my own discretion, I buy books that I think are good or look good. Therefore, everything on display in the store is a recommended book. But that doesn't answer the question, so after explaining the above, I make suggestions based on the customer's preferences, and often recommend new books or classic titles.


In the case of 1 BOOKs, this article is my proxy, so I cannot recommend it in that way. Therefore, in this project, I choose a book that I would like to recommend from a more personal perspective each time. This time, I would like to introduce the latest book by Norwegian photographer Lina Bämmer Lokken, published in November last year by Multipress, an independent Norwegian publisher that IACK has been handling since it was founded in 2017.

Spread from the book "Dry Eye Dripping Stone"

A few years ago, Lokken's daughter lost the sight in one eye due to a tumor around the optic nerve. This incident prompted Lokken to reexamine her own existence as a photographer. As a result, she began to consider the two gazes that photography possesses: the "optical gaze" and the "tactile gaze."

The former refers to the gaze as an optical phenomenon through a lens or the naked eye, while the latter refers to the gaze = image with texture and touch as a printed matter in a broad sense. In the medium of photobooks, which he has been working on for a long time, Locken has begun to attempt to fuse the tactile nature of the latter photograph with the semiotics and visual narrative of traditional photography.


Spread from the book "Dry Eye Dripping Stone"

The fact that this book is a tribute to his daughter is clear from the short afterword included in the book: in his writings to her, Locken writes, "You became like a camera."


Unlike today's digital cameras and smartphones, which take pictures while looking at a monitor, the analog camera she uses literally captures the image through a "single-lens" lens, with the photographer removing the viewfinder with one eye. The photographs in this book are scenes seen with one eye, just like her daughter, and readers can come into contact with the landscapes of Locken's memories stored in layers, feeling their presence with their hands and eyes as they read the book.

Spread from the book "Dry Eye Dripping Stone"

As a father of a daughter and a photographer, I have had more opportunities in recent years to think about conveying something through my work, rather than through direct communication between people. When I look at this film from that perspective, I am struck by the powerful potential and significance of art, which goes beyond criticism and beauty.

Locken's work has become simpler, more stripped down and sharpened with every passing year. This book also deals with personal events, but it has a warmth that envelops the difficulties and a powerful photographic work. It is a book that you should read carefully, turning each page carefully.


Yukito Kono (Photographer/IACK)
January 11, 20251BOOKs" From the text submitted to "

Title: Dry Eye Dripping Stone
Artist: Line Bøhmer Løkken
Multipress, 2024
Hardcover
215 x 290 mm
96 pages
Text in English
First edition of 300 copies
¥7,590-

https://www.iack.online/products/signed-dry-eye-dripping-stone-by-line-bohmer-lokken

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[From Saturday, January 11th] "1 BOOKs" at CANDLE CAFE & Laboratory ΔΙΙ, Tokyo

The event " will be held at CANDLE CAFE & Laboratory ΔΙΙ in Tokyo from January 11th.We will be exhibiting at "1 BOOKs".

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A bookstore called "1 BOOKs" will be open again at ∆II from Saturday, January 11th to Tuesday, February 11th.
What kind of bookstore is it? Bookstore owners and people involved with books will select and sell just one book under the stipulation that it is "the one book that I recommend," making it a bookstore where people have truly put their heart and soul into each book.

◼flotsam books
◼︎HeHe
◼︎IACK
◼POETIC SCAPE
◼︎POST
◼TISSUE PEPARS
◼twelvebooks
◼Yumemi Bookstore
◼︎888books

The books will be selected by the author, and the book will include an explanation of each book as well as the reasons why the book was chosen, so we believe that it will be enjoyable for a wide range of people, not just those who love books.
*The reasons for the book selections can only be read at the venue.

This time, photographers Masumi Ishida and Yuichiro Noda will also be participating, and just like with the book, they will each be exhibiting and selling one photographic work.

I hope you all find a wonderful book and piece of work.

PROFILE
◼flotsam books
https://www.instagram.com/flotsambooks

◼︎HeHe
https://www.instagram.com/hehe_press

◼︎IACK
https://www.instagram.com/iack.studio

◼POETIC SCAPE
https://www.instagram.com/poetic_scape

◼︎POST
https://www.instagram.com/post_books

◼TISSUE PEPARS
https://www.instagram.com/tissue_papers

◼twelvebooks
https://www.instagram.com/twelvebooksdistribution

◼Yumemi Bookstore
https://www.instagram.com/yumemibooks

◼︎888books
https://www.instagram.com/888books_pearl_bg

◼︎Masumi Ishida
https://www.instagram.com/8msmsm8

◼Yuichiro Noda
https://www.instagram.com/yuichironoda

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