Tomasz Gudzowaty, Sumo Express

Sumo Express

Tomasz Gudzowaty

Publisher
Steidl
Year
2025
ISBN
978-3-96999-437-5
Specifications
Stapled booklets in a slipcase
14 booklets
18 x 25.8 cm
252 pages
168 images
Japanese

Sumo Express is Tomasz Gudzowaty’s tribute to Japan’s national sport, steeped in tradition, ritual and the sacred. Gudzowaty documents not only the wrestlers in the throes of competition but also their earnest, disciplined lives in the stables where these young men train, eat and sleep together—creating a portrait shaped by both the past and modernity. He confronts his subject with the rebellious, blurred aesthetic of are-bure-boke, which defined Provoke, the radical Tokyo photo magazine founded in 1968 in which, Gudzowaty says, “form was reduced to zero and only content remained.” The work consists of 14 stapled booklets housed in a handmade slipcase, inspired by Keizo Kitajima’s legendary Photo Express: Tokyo.

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