Torri
In the Shinto religion, the Torii is referred to as the entrance to the sacred world. Sacred areas of the Shinto religion, which sees the fear possessed towards nature as its beginning, exists in all parts of Japan. However, another time leading to ancient times passes beyond the Torii. The entrance might disappear while I am dillydallying... thinking thus, I took these photographs.
64 Pages
30 color illustrations
Size: 26.7 x 26 cm
Published by:Super Labo
Year of publication: 2012
White
The photographer Risaku Suzuki has been taking pictures of snows and snowscapes since 2004. His sense of sight gained by going into frigid, snowy mountains with a large format camera every year to keep facing the white world beyond control of men, takes us away to nowhere, a place farther from snowy mountains and makes us float in the clear light and the tense air.
As the title "White" suggests, questioning the "whiteness" is to question the physicality that brings photography into existence, such as paper, light sensitivity, emulsion and frame, as well as the metaphysics of photography such as light, colors, blank space and outline.
The printing paper is selected by comparing the whiteness with photographic paper and through careful test printings. The printing uses the high-definition FM screening technique to bring the very delicate color balance of its highlight neighborhood, which is difficult to recreate by four process colors, infinitely close to the original by the author's attendance at the printing process.
In order to keep the pages flat, the bookbinding daringly applies the particular method modeled on side stitching, of which book is usually difficult to open wide, in a new interpretation.
These elements of this book are sure to bring a fresh experience on your eye.
58 Pages
26 photographs in color
Size: 265mm x 387mm
Published by: sot l'y laisse publishers
Year of publication: 2012
Sekka-zu
The "Sekka-zu" is a still cut from a 14 minute 16 second film creation. By focusing, snow crystals start to surface from the darkness. I try to extract the fragments of time from the film that captured this visual experience. What had settled there was a memory of my imagination.
28 Pages
33 Images
Size: 10.5 x 14.8 cm
Softcover
Published by: SUPER LABO
Year of publication: 2012
Limited Edition of 500 copies
Kumano, Yuki, Sakura
Since his international debut in 2003, photographer Risaku Suzuki has attained widespread recognition as an artis heralding a new age in landscape photography. Like the sun rising and setting in the same place, like the fires of the Oto Matsuri festival held in Kumano every winter, the present moment that is engraved in Suzukis photgraphs is intimately linked to both the past and the future. His works repeatedly revisit the same subjects, capturing them over several years and a multitude of perspectives.
Published in conjunction with the 2007 Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography exhibition "Suzuki Risaku: Kumano, Yuki, Sakura", this catalogue features some 80 photographs that have been selected from Suzuki's series on the motifs of Kumano, snow, and cherry blossoms. The Kumano photographs were taken over a ten-year period from 1997 until 2007; the photographs of snow were done in 2006 and 2007, and the cherry blossom photographs were completed from 2002 through 2007. By placing them in seasonal order, we gain a new understanding of the artist, seeing him as a pendulum constantly swinging between the moment and eternity as he engages with his subjects on the most intimate level.
136 pages
Size: 242 mm x 129 mm
Hardcover
Published by: Tanko-Sha
Publication date: 2007
signed
CHF 170.00
Yuki Sakura
Risaku Suzuki is one of Japan's most prominent young photographers. In "Yuki Sakura", he presents two quintessential Japanese subjects - snowfall and cherry blossoms - in a manner that is at once timeless and refreshingly new. Yuki Sakura opens with photographs of snowflakes
drifting weightlessly in a deep blue Hokkaido night sky. These are
followed by high-key landscapes of freshly fallen snow bathed in morning
light, punctuated by the merest suggestions of trees rising above the
white drifts. The book ends in a crescendo of cherry blossoms against a
backdrop of the branches from which they burst forth; the use of extreme
selective focus in these last photographs softens the flowers into
light pink cloud-forms, creating a full circle.
Limited to an
edition of just 500 copies, Yuki Sakura is a hardcover book of white,
silk-covered boards with an original, tipped-in color print (24 x 30 cm) on the cover, and no dust jacket, as issued. The book
measures 34 x 43 cm and contains 31 four-color plates in 40
Japanese matte paper pages.
40 pages
Size: 340 mm x 430 mm
Hardcover
Published by: Nazraeli Press
Publication date: 2008
Limited Edition of 500 copies
Signed
CHF 470.00