Landscapes: The Takashi Homma Purple Book
Takashi Homma
£55.00
The Ryan McGinley Purple Book
"In 1991 the Japanese photographer Takashi Homma (born in 1962) took residence in London to work for i-D magazine. There he began to give fashion photography a documentary look, framing beauty in an atmosphere of everyday reality. He began to look at how presentation... Read More
The Ryan McGinley Purple Book
"In 1991 the Japanese photographer Takashi Homma (born in 1962) took residence in London to work for i-D magazine. There he began to give fashion photography a documentary look, framing beauty in an atmosphere of everyday reality. He began to look at how presentation and editing processes affected photography. Thinking of the Japanese word shashin, or "true reflection," he realized that a photograph could show obvious fact, but not a subject's constitutive or intrinsic reality. Homma sought ways to show how the proximal connections of a photographer and a subject could suggest the ultimate origins that run deeper in the collective process.
His Tokyo Suburbia, I998, focused on Tokyo's suburban sprawl as an embodiment of his generation's global awareness; New Waves caught the rhythm of waves seemingly interacting with horizon lines, in a metaphor for Earth time; Tokyo and My Daughter projected the emotion and continuity of family and place, incorporating landscapes and found images, while treating life's due process as a construction built on hope and order aiming to triumph over chaos. In his book, The Narcissistic City, he used a camera obscura to capture the spectral aura of the contemporary metropolis.
Takashi Homma is an artist; he uses the medium of photography in an editing process in search of the meta-space of ultimate cause, which belies and sometimes haunts every image, but isn't actually shown." -Jeff Rian
Produced as a supplement alongside Purple Fashion Magazine issue 26, Fall/Winter 2016/17
Condition: Excellent