
TOKYO 2016-2017
- Publisher
- Sokyusha
- Year
- 2018
- Specifications
- Softcover, colour
280 x 224 mm
96 pages
75 images
Limited edition of 400 copies
Edited by Michitaka Ota
Design: 原耕一
Printing: 株式会社サンエムカラー
Colour photographs taken on the streets of Tokyo in 2016 and 2017, the first colour work in Michio Yamauchi's lifelong Tokyo series, which until then had been presented in black and white. As in the earlier volumes the gaze is merciless towards people, crowds and the city. Some photographs are classical street photography, but most are snapshot portraits of single subjects, reflecting both the individuals who inhabit the city, captured within its context, and the atmosphere of its streets, and building a balanced, thoughtful connection between the whole and the individual. Recording a city that may be wearing itself out through excess at a speed that words cannot keep up with, the book shows what street snapshots can do that only photography can.