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(Velvet Cover Edition) AMS by Seiichi Furuya
This was Furuya's memorable first collection of works, published in 1981.
At the end of April 1980, Furuya accompanied Daido Moriyama, who was visiting Graz for a three-week solo exhibition at Forum Stadtpark, and the two of them drove to Amsterdam. The city, where young people from all over the world gather in search of freedom and adventure, immediately stirred, captured, and overwhelmed Furuya. From June, Furuya worked part-time as a waiter at a high-end Japanese restaurant for three months, taking photos in his free time and developing the photos in a small attic above the restaurant. At first, Furuya was unable to grasp the true nature of the sensations that the city of Amsterdam brought to him, and he continued to click the shutter mindlessly, entrusting everything to the camera as if in a kind of trance. "I couldn't find the answer for a while, but I still followed the camera's lead. After developing the first few photos, I was able to identify the cause of my frustration. From then on, instead of entrusting myself to the camera, I started to take photos consciously." Furuya says this in the text included in this book.
The restaurant where Furuya worked, Toga, closed down when he retired, and he returned to Graz and immediately began work on this book.
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Title: AMS
Artist: Seiichi Furuya
Edition Camera Austria, 1981
Velvet hardcover, case binding
246 x 246 x 18 mm
89 pages
Text in German and English
Velvet cover edition
At the end of April 1980, Furuya accompanied Daido Moriyama, who was visiting Graz for a three-week solo exhibition at Forum Stadtpark, and the two of them drove to Amsterdam. The city, where young people from all over the world gather in search of freedom and adventure, immediately stirred, captured, and overwhelmed Furuya. From June, Furuya worked part-time as a waiter at a high-end Japanese restaurant for three months, taking photos in his free time and developing the photos in a small attic above the restaurant. At first, Furuya was unable to grasp the true nature of the sensations that the city of Amsterdam brought to him, and he continued to click the shutter mindlessly, entrusting everything to the camera as if in a kind of trance. "I couldn't find the answer for a while, but I still followed the camera's lead. After developing the first few photos, I was able to identify the cause of my frustration. From then on, instead of entrusting myself to the camera, I started to take photos consciously." Furuya says this in the text included in this book.
The restaurant where Furuya worked, Toga, closed down when he retired, and he returned to Graz and immediately began work on this book.
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Title: AMS
Artist: Seiichi Furuya
Edition Camera Austria, 1981
Velvet hardcover, case binding
246 x 246 x 18 mm
89 pages
Text in German and English
Velvet cover edition