
Akai Ito (A Thread of Red)
- Publisher
- Visual Arts College
- Year
- 2014
- ISBN
- 978-4-86541-022-8
- Specifications
- Softcover
284 x 253 mm
80 pages
Book design by Toshio Yamagata
Supervised by Yoshihiko Ueda
Visual Arts Photo Award 2014, Grand Prize
Winner of the Grand Prize at the Visual Arts Photo Award 2014, this is the first photobook by the young photographer Junko Yonezawa. Her quiet square-format colour pictures catch, within the ordinary field of vision, an otherworld that passes by for an instant. Daido Moriyama compares leafing through her colour prints to reading a book of wordless poems, with a clear, hard emotion that reaches the viewer, while Kotaro Iizawa writes that a ripple of delicate feeling spreads from the gaps between the photographs and ensnares the viewer: a transparent sadness, and a sense that life and death are joined somewhere like a Möbius strip. In her afterword Yonezawa writes of the figure ahead who is just about to turn around, of the sudden nostalgia that strikes the chest when the soul remembers a deep sorrow, and of being captivated by the shapes that formless things take on, in search of the nostalgic sadness of being here and now.