A photobook with an innovative acrylic-bound form, exploring how images appear, overlap and take shape beyond narrative or fixed meaning.
This year’s model is a photobook by Japanese photographer Go Itami. Rather than focusing on the pre-photographic question of what to shoot and how to shoot it, Itami’s interest lies in how an image appears after it has become a photograph, and why it comes to look the way it does. Through photographs in which transparency, reflection, repetition and layering intertwine, his work does not foreground meaning or narrative, but presents itself as a kind of visual composite.
By distilling this distinctive perspective into book form, This year’s model directs attention less to the relationships that emerge from turning pages than to the force of each individual image. Its unusual construction, in which the stack of photographs is held between acrylic covers, further sharpens the work’s visual intensity.
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Title: This year’s model
Artist: Go Itami
Publisher: edition.nord, 2014
Format: Acrylic cover
Size: 257 × 364 mm
Pages: 73
Language: n/a
Edition: Limited edition of 1000 copies
ISBN: n/a
Condition: Very Good. An almost like-new copy, with only extremely minor wear to the top edge of a few pages.
