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Toshio Shibata

Concrete Abstraction

Akio Nagasawa Publishing, Tokyo, 2015

285x224x13 mm, hard cover, 600 signed copies

"Occasions at which people ask me about my photographs have been increasing lately.

On the fundamental question, ?Why landscapes?? I can?t offer more than a lighthearted answer referring to my desire to work outside, my hobby of traveling, and the fact that a landscape is for me the ideal environment for relaxed working without being disturbed.
Even the rather essential question, ?Why infrastructure?? I casually answer by explaining that this is something that can be found anywhere and addressed at any time ? a silent object that allows for one-sided interpretation.
Well I must have had some serious ideas back when I started working in photography. Ideas about the originality of my works; about indirect ways of expression (of human behavior); about the country I?m living in, etc. But now that I think about it, I know that the guy who was considering such things more than 30 years ago is still right here behind me."

? from Afterword by Toshio Shibata

141.00 €