still life / Kenji Aoki
Bibliographic Details
- Title
- still life
- Artist
- Kenji Aoki / 青木健二
- Editor
- Osamu Kushida / 櫛田 理
- Designer
- Nobuhiro Yamaguchi / 山口信博
- Director
- Osamu Kushida / 櫛田 理
- Publisher
- FRAGILE BOOKS
- Year
- 2024
- Size
- w353 × h355 × d18mm(sleeve case) / h351 × w351 × d13mm(Book)
- Weight
- 1.7kg
- Pages
- 84pages / This book is 6 volumes in 1 book. (Each volume has 8-16 pages.)
- Language
- English
- Binding
- no folding binding / coated paper
- Printing
- 4C Offset printing / 4C オフセット
- Materials
- Main paper: Mr.B White 4/6 180kg, Folded folder paper: Arabelle White 4/6 200kg, Sleeve paper: Aska F 53kg、本文用紙：Mr.B ホワイト 4/6 180kg 、折形フォルダー用紙：アラベール ホワイト4/6 200kg 、スリーブ用紙：アスカF 53kg
- Edition
- Limited edition of 350 copies / 限定350部
- Condition
- New
- ISBN
- 9784909479051
This book is 6 volumes in 1 book. Folding Paper-case and sleeve case. この本は６冊組の写真集です。セットで特製の折形フォルダーに包み、それをスリーブケースに収納しています。 DTP：玉井一平、印刷：アイワード、折形フォルダー：福永紙工
As a result of his genuine search for non-objects,
a limited-edition set of his photography books has been created.
Exploring the extremities of still-life photography, Kenji Aoki has returned to Japan for the first time in twelve years. As a result of his genuine search for non-objects, a limited-edition set of his photography books has been created. For Aoki, the object no longer has importance. He minimizes objects, sees through objects and leaves them behind. For example, look at his image of a single pole. Its relationship with the shadow lying next to it is unrealistically formal and right-angled, making it feel like a two-dimensional mirage. The space is quite minimal, there’s nothing to remove. He pushes the relationship between light and shadow to the extreme, until the thing becomes a beautiful paradox in the space. The self-standing pole becomes the one being required for zero to exist.
The publication consists of a set of six photography books containing twenty-six still-life images he photographed in 2020. Designed by Nobuhiro Yamaguchi, the publication is limited edition of 350. All copies are numbered and the first 50 copies are signed by the artist.
<Please note the following>
◉The delivery of the products is scheduled for mid-August.
◉It is not possible to specify a serial number for online purchases.
◉Signed items numbered 1-50 will be available for pre-sale at the POST exhibition (9.August - 1.September).
<Bibliographic Details>
Title: still life
Author: Kenji Aoki
Director + Editor + Publisher: Osamu Kushida
Art Director + Designer: Nobuhiro Yamaguchi
Edition: Limited 350 copies
Publication Date: September 1, 2024
ISBN: 978-4909479-05-1
Price: ¥40,000 +tax
Published by FRAGILE BOOKS
Author: Kenji Aoki
Director + Editor + Publisher: Osamu Kushida
Art Director + Designer: Nobuhiro Yamaguchi
Edition: Limited 350 copies
Publication Date: September 1, 2024
ISBN: 978-4909479-05-1
Price: ¥40,000 +tax
Published by FRAGILE BOOKS
<Artist’s Profile>
Kenji Aoki (b. 1968, Tokyo)
Photographer specializing in still life taken from a viewpoint focused on geometric forms. He was taught to draw by his uncle, the craft designer Mosuke Yoshitake, and later discovered the Bauhaus design principles while studying at Kuwasawa Design School. He was influenced by the idea of “The Non-Objective World” proposed by Malevich that resonates with the idea of Japanese zen. He began to seek out non-objects among the forms in reality through the use of photography. Upon relocating to the United States in 2010 he started taking images for The New York Times Magazine and TIME, which were critically acclaimed. In 2021 he published SPACE with Kehrer Verlag. He returned to Japan in 2022. https://www.aokiphoto.com/
Photographer specializing in still life taken from a viewpoint focused on geometric forms. He was taught to draw by his uncle, the craft designer Mosuke Yoshitake, and later discovered the Bauhaus design principles while studying at Kuwasawa Design School. He was influenced by the idea of “The Non-Objective World” proposed by Malevich that resonates with the idea of Japanese zen. He began to seek out non-objects among the forms in reality through the use of photography. Upon relocating to the United States in 2010 he started taking images for The New York Times Magazine and TIME, which were critically acclaimed. In 2021 he published SPACE with Kehrer Verlag. He returned to Japan in 2022. https://www.aokiphoto.com/
<Exhibition conjunction with the publication>
9.Aug (fri) → 1.Sep (Sun) 2024
Venue: POST (http://post-books.info)
Address: 2-10-3 Ebisu-minami, Shibuya-ku Tokyo
※Opening reception: 10.Aug (Sat) 16:00~19:00
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