Everywhere Gather Yourself Stand by Yoshiko Seino
A photobook by Japanese photographer Yoshiko Seino.
Seino worked as an editor in Tokyo before beginning her practice as a photographer around 1995. She held solo exhibitions at Comme des Garçons’ flagship store in Aoyama and at Gallery Koyanagi in Ginza, gradually gaining recognition. Published in 2009, this volume is the artist’s second photobook and became her final work following her death later that same year.
The book brings together images of plants, gardens, construction sites, figures, buildings, back alleys, and the persistently recurring motif of palm trees. All photographs were taken with a 35mm camera. Each carries a peculiar sense of distance and atmosphere that resists being reduced to mere snapshot photography.
“Photographs that merely consume ‘hope’ can no longer stand. The task is to discover a narrow passage. If photography has any meaning, it lies in creating something like a ‘passage.’ Once such a passage is opened, what lies beyond is for the viewer to decide. Or rather, it is not closed, but opened… Even so, to continue seeking that ‘passage’ without giving up is important. No—perhaps I do not truly believe it is even important.”
In the afterword, Seino reflects on photography through the words “hope” and “passage.” This book traces the marks of an artist who, fundamentally a person of language, sought a way to confront the world through the apparatus of photography.
The title is drawn from a late poem by the German poet Paul Celan.
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Title: 至るところで 心を集めよ 立っていよ (Gather your hearts everywhere, stand)
Artist: 清野賀子 (Yoshiko Seino)
Publisher: Osiris, 2009
Format: Hardcover, case binding
Size: 173 × 259 mm
Pages: 72 pages
Language: Japanese
Edition: First edition
ISBN: 978-4990123970
Condition: Good
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Good: General condition for a used book. There are some scratches and stains due to aging.
Acceptable: There are notable tears or stains. Recommended for those who would like to read it once.