Gather your hearts everywhere, stand by Yoshiko Seino
A collection of works by Japanese photographer Yoshiko Seino.
Seino worked as an editor in Tokyo, but began working as a photographer around 1995. He held solo exhibitions at the Comme des Garçons flagship store in Aoyama and Gallery Koyanagi in Ginza, gradually becoming one of the most talked-about photographers. This book is the artist's second collection of works, published in 2009, and is his posthumous work, as he took his own life in the same year. The images include plants, gardens, construction sites, people, buildings, backstreets, and the persistent recurring image of palm trees. All the photographs were taken with a 35mm camera, and each one has a mysterious sense of distance and atmosphere that makes it difficult to call them simply snapshots.
"Photography can no longer be a mere consumption of 'hope'. It is the task of finding a narrow passage. If photography has any meaning, it is when it is able to create something like a 'passage'. Something like a 'passage' is opened, and what lies beyond is decided by the viewer. Or, it is not closed, but open (omitted) Even so, it is important not to give up and continue to find the 'passage'. Actually, I don't even really think it is important," Seino writes about photography in the afterword to this book, using the words hope and passage. This book traces the author's search for a way to confront the world through the device of photography, a man of words.
The title is taken from a poem written in the later years of the German poet Paul Celan.
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Title: Gather your hearts everywhere and stand
Artist: Yoshiko Seino
Osiris, 2009
Hardcover, 173 x 259 mm
72 pages
First edition
¥12,800 + tax
Condition: Good, bumped on the corner. Average condition for age. Upper right corner is crushed and discolored. No dents in the paper.
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