
5 Comes After 6
- Publisher
- Match and Company
- Year
- 2014
- Specifications
- Softcover
257 x 182 mm
24 pages
23 photographs
Limited edition of 700 copies
M label No. 32
Photographs of home life and trains by Yurie Nagashima, taken with a lightweight easy-focus camera during the twelve years she raised her son largely on her own. In her own text she contrasts the image of the great artist, hauling heavy equipment out beyond the known with animal-like concentration, with a life of breast-feeding every two hours, changing nappies and preparing meals, running on empty after the break-up with her partner. She took the baby everywhere and, on days off, to watch his favourite trains; as he grew he wandered off and she chased after him. Scenes with obstacles in the way, loveable niceties and a peaceable(?) world reflected in a mirror make up the book, which ends as the boy chooses two days at a railroad enthusiast camp over three weeks in Europe with her: change is in the air. Colour pictures of walkways, trees and sky sit beside collaged details on pages of green and white.