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Hashiguchi Joji / George Hashiguchi

Joji 'George' HASHIGUCHI

HASHIGUCHI Jôji (transliterated as 'George') is a Japanese photographer and a writer, who started photo-document in the early 1980s with communities of outcasts, gangs and drug dealers in the West and Japan (Oretachi, magazine works), and Berlin both before and after the fall of the Wall (Berlin, Die Mauer, Jiyu, the 2-volume novel Berlin Monogatari, etc.). Thereafter and non-exclusively, starting with Seventeen's Map, Hashiguchi has worked on the vast project of 'understanding Japan and the Japanese' through subjective thematic cuts through the Japanese society (17 years old, fathers, couples, elderly, children, etc.), travel and random encounters, during which were taken photographs and sociological data. Both the contrast between his first and his second set of works (vivid street snaps vs. posed, full-length portraits) and that double scientific and philosophical purpose (as well as the very private insight it provides), place Hashiguchi in a peculiar and very interesting position in the photographic field. As a constant trait, black monochrome overwhelmingly dominates ; as an additional treat, Hashiguchi grants most of his books with a very meaningful and touching afterword that is in itself worth the read.

Further readings: Profile [jp] ; study by Richard Chalfen [en / abstract 1, 2, 3].

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Links to the detailed descriptions:
Liens vers les descriptions détaillées :

HASHIGUCHI George
Oretachi, Dokonimo Irarenai
(1982)

HASHIGUCHI George / Joji
Seventeen's Map / 17-sai no Chizu
(1988)

HASHIGUCHI George
Minami kara no Kaze
(2 vol. / 1988)

HASHIGUCHI George
Dobutsuen / Zoo
(1989)

HASHIGUCHI George
Father
(1990)

HASHIGUCHI George
Yume / Dream
(1997)

HASHIGUCHI George
Jiyu / Freedom
(1998)

HASHIGUCHI George
Children's Time
(1999)

Magazine Works, Misc.

Shagaku 3/5
SHINOYAMA Kishin / HASHIGUCHI Joji / TAKAHASHI Keiichi
(1982)

Nikkor Annual 1999-2000
(2000)

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Japanese Photographers / Photographes japonais
Du Japon des gens / Of Japan's People
Du Japon des régions / Of Japan's Regions
Japan's Islands
Animals and Japan
Travels in Gaikoku-land

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Japanese Photographers / Photographes japonais
Du Japon des gens / Of Japan's People
Du Japon des régions / Of Japan's Regions
Japan's Islands
Animals and Japan
Travels in Gaikoku-land

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TOMATSU Shomei. Toki no Shimajima / Islands of Time (1998)

TOMATSU Shomei. Toki no Shimajima. Islands of Time (Les Îles du Temps.) Tokyo : Iwanami-shoten (Sengo Nihon / Post-war Japan / Le Japon de l'après-guerre), 1998. E.O., premier tirage / First ed. & pr. — ENQUIRE

Description — Square in-4° carré (30 x 31 x 2 cm), 144 p., 1,7 kg.
Cloth binding, pict. dj, b&w pictures. Text by Ryuku IMAFUKU, photo index, biographies, in Japanese.
Reliure toile, jaquette ill., photographies n&b. Texte par IMAFUKU Ryuku, index des photographies, biographies, en japonais.

État / Condition — VG / TB.

Remarques & avis / Review — An excellent collection, all in black, by Shomei TOMATSU, with texts by the Japanese anthropologist Ryuta IMAFUKU, along the cities newt to which the American Forces set their quarters (like Nagasaki), and the Japanese islands before relocation, return or withdrawal (like Okinawa), and what happened next, until then. A beautiful photobook.

Un excellent recueil, tout en noirs, de TOMATSU Shomei, accompagné d'un texte de l'anthropologue japonais IMAFUKU Ryuta, le long des villes près lesquelles les forces américaines établirent leurs bases (comme Nagasaki), et des îles japonaises avant déplacement, rendu ou retrait (comme Okinawa), et ce qu'il advint ensuite, jusqu'alors. Un magnifique livre-photo.

Divers / Misc. — Pictures taken in / Photographies prises à :

Nagasaki — Tokyo — Okinawa — Ishigaki — Miyakojima...

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Japanese Photographers / Photographes japonais
Les îles du Japon / Japan's Islands

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ARAKI Nobuyoshi. Sentimental na Tabi : Fuyu no Tabi (1991)

ARAKI Nobuyoshi. Sentimental na Tabi : Fuyu no Tabi (A Sentimental Journey : A Winter's Journey / Voyage sentimental : voyage d'hiver). Tokyo : Shincho-sha, 1991. E.O. / First ed. — Cf. Divers / Misc.

Description — Oblong in-4° (19,5 x 27 x 2 cm), (124) p., 800 g.
Cloth binding, pict. slipcase,, b&w pictures. Foreword & captions in Japanese.
Reliure toile, étui ill., photographies n&b. Préface & légendes en japonais.

État / Condition — Cf. Divers / Misc.

Remarques & avis / Review — One of the most taking, touching and beautiful photobooks by Nobuyoshi ARAKI, that retraces the beginning and the end of his wife Yoko who died in 1990. Splendid funeral oration and tough recording of reality, and cause of his falling out with Kishin SHINOYAMA — Araki truthful to his conception of photography. An important photobook.

L'un des volumes d'ARAKI Nobuyoshi les plus prenants, les plus touchants et les plus beaux, qui retrace le début et la fin de sa femme Yoko, morte en 1990. Splendide éloge funèbre et terrible enregistrement du réel, qui le brouilla avec SHINOYAMA Kishin — Araki fidèle à sa conception de la photographie. Un photobook important.

Divers / Misc. — Available copies / Exemplaires disponibles :

1. ARAKI Nobuyoshi. Sentimental na Tabi : Fuyu no Tabi (1991)
E.O., 1er tir. / 1st ed. & pr.
État / Condition : Excellent (very light browning on slipcase spine-strip / dos étui lég. bruni).
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2. ARAKI Nobuyoshi. Sentimental na Tabi : Fuyu no Tabi (1993)
5th pr. / 5e tir.
État / Condition : VG (small defects) / TB (petits défauts).
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"A memorial volume to Yoko, it opens with some photos from the first Sentimental Journey, and includes photos of Yoko in the hospital and of her funeral. Wistful commentary by Araki. It closes joyously with a photo of Chiro [their cat] walking briskly in the snow." (IIZAWA Kohtaro, ARAKI's Illustrated Bibliography, in déjà-vu #4 : ARAKI Nobuyoshi (1991), p.90)