
indigo
- Publisher
- Sokyusha
- Year
- 2004
- ISBN
- 978-4-902137-61-3
- Specifications
- Hardcover, no dust jacket, slipcase, duotone, black and white
235 x 268 mm
76 pages
62 images
Limited edition of 1,000 copies
Edited by Michitaka Ota
Editorial cooperation: 櫛引万紀
Translation by Haruna Ito
Commentary by Yoshitoki Irisawa
Design: Omni-Trax
Production: 古田博信
Printing: 凸版印刷
Photographs made between 1993 and 2003. In the essay included in the book, Yoshitoki Irisawa places Kanji Mizutani among the photographers who came after Daido Moriyama, among them Seiji Kurata, Michio Yamauchi, Keizo Kitajima, Hiroyasu Nakai and Koji Onaka, who in one way or another fall within Moriyama's force of anonymity, and yet notes that Mizutani alone gives off a different feeling. Mizutani first met Moriyama at a workshop and held a first solo exhibition on Moriyama's recommendation; the essay asks what is new and amazing about this landscape-centred photography of perspective, which appears free of contradiction, and sees it as an undertaking of contemporary expression.