
Motodablack
- Publisher
- Match and Company
- Year
- 2008
- Specifications
- Softcover
285 x 300 mm
24 pages
15 photographs
Images cropped to the proportions of 35mm film
Limited edition of 700 copies
M label No. 8
Night pictures of cars and motorbikes parked on the street, made with a 4x5 large-format camera on monochrome film. Keizo Motoda concentrates on emblems and brand logos, and the images convey the material presence of the vehicles through a dense, strong blackness. Raindrops, cracks and stains glitter on the metal surfaces and every texture is fixed vividly. The blackness reflects the eroticism and chaos of city streets, which he has observed since the mid-1990s in snapshots of Tokyo and Osaka. The series began in 2006 with a black car in a car park lit by a single flash, and every image is cropped to the frame of 35mm film.