
windows
- Publisher
- Akaaka Art Publishing
- Year
- 2023
- ISBN
- 978-4-86541-171-3
- Specifications
- Cloth hardcover
194 x 205 mm
752 pages
724 photographs
Book design by Kaoru Kasai and Yuki Adachi
A series of some 100,000 photographs of opaque glass windows in Tokyo, made between April 2020 and November 2022 and Yoshiyuki Okuyama's first work shot on a digital camera; the book collects 724 of them. During the pandemic, when he rarely travelled abroad, he began walking around Tokyo and noticed the windows facing the street, mostly frosted or patterned glass through which everyday things show: kitchens and bathrooms, figurines, flowers, laundry, notices, umbrellas, household altars, bicycles. Cropped along the window frames, the interiors become abstract patterns that carry the shadows and reflections of the outside and suggest the presence of someone living there, each window a portrait of the people of Tokyo. Looking from outside in, a dialogue with strangers, an unspecified portrait that reflects the society at our feet, in a city densely built of different things and constantly generating itself.