tokyo-camera-style: Suggested exhibition of the month year: Issei Suda’s phenomenal Fūshi kaden (風姿花
tokyo-camera-style: Suggested exhibition of the month year: Issei Suda’s phenomenal Fūshi kaden (風姿花伝) at BLD Gallery in Ginza. Shot on the streets of Tokyo in the early 1970’s, the photographs delineate Suda’s very particular and often peculiar sense of not place or time, but perhaps being. Serialized in the monthly magazine Camera Mainichi , under the direction of editor Shoji Yamagishi, Fūshi kaden was Suda’s breakthrough into the Japanese photo world. The series won him the Photographic Society of Japan Newcomer Award in 1976 with exhibitions at the Nikon Salons of Tokyo and Osaka in 1977. The show is accompanied by a luxuriously constructed black-satin-wrapped photobook that presents to the viewer the entire series through some of the finest printing you’ll ever find. The printing is so good that any difference in quality between the reproductions and actual prints on the walls is inconsequentially minimal. While the quality of the book is substantial, so is the price. If the 15,000 yen price tag is beyond reach the gallery bookshop also offers many of Suda’s older books for sale as well. If you are going to be in Tokyo between Nov.15th and Dec.28th, be sure to stop on by. What: Fūshi kaden (風姿花伝) Who: Issei Suda Where: BLD Gallery in Ginza. google streetview (take the elevator to the 8th floor) When: Open daily, 11am - 7pm (Closed Dec.3) Part 1. Nov.15 - Dec.2, 2012 Part 2. Dec.4 - Dec.28, 2012 -- source link