Ectoplasm Profiling
- Publisher
- Libro Arte
- Year
- 2014
- ISBN
- 978-4-904541-14-2
- Specifications
- Softcover
147 x 222 mm
96 pages
Art direction by Katsuya Kato
Edited by Masakazu Murakami
For over twenty years Osamu Kanemura insisted on silver-gelatin film, shooting the blocks of the city in monochrome and earning high regard at home and abroad for work pinned across gallery walls without regard for underexposure, blown highlights, uneven development, scratches and dust. In 2013 he took up his first digital camera, a Ricoh GR, and began shooting digitally in earnest alongside film, thrusting the camera at the world as if possessed, like a patient with an obsessive disorder repeating the same act. In an age when vast numbers of pictures are taken on phones and compacts, he asks where the hope of photography can be; from tens of thousands of frames shot in a single year, 158 are selected here with a ten-thousand-character text, his first digital colour photobook.