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Living with the Waters
,
Second
Edition
Edition
of 500
2024
Hardcover
Case
binding
116
Pages
9
"
x
11
"
$ 80
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“If you don’t leave behind a record, nobody will know what happened"
Tokio Matsubara was born in 1940 in Wakaura in Wakayama Prefecture. The place used to be a mecca for waka poetry composed in the Manyoshu, and the town is filled with the lingering aesthetic sense of the ancient people. His photographic works, which resonate with the aesthetic spirit, continue to develop in a variety of ways while expanding his unique artistry. Living with the Waters, the starting point of the photographer Tokio Matsubara's career, is a collection of portraits of people in Wakaura, Tanoura, and Saikazaki during the period 1955-1969.
The photobook Living with the Waters offers that rare combination of photographs that have both merit as artistic images and as historical documents. Taken by Tokio Matsubara in the town of Wakaura between 1955 and 1969, the book offers an aesthetically dense trip into a past that has disappeared. Matsubara, born in Wakaura in 1940, took his first photographs aged 11; his extraordinary photos capture local townsfolk of Wakaura as well as local customs like nori farming in various photographic styles ranging from portraits to almost surreal-looking landscape shots.
“If you don’t leave behind a record, nobody will know what happened,” Matsubara said in an interview with Asahi Shinbun. “From the very first photograph I took when I was 11 years old, I have kept all of my negatives.”
All texts included in Japanese and English translation.
