Tokyo (*signed*)

@ Johansson, Gerry

978-398168858-0

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"Tokyo is a visual journey through a city at once futuristic and obsolete, its visionary design worn out – like that of a past era.

Johanasson uses photography to index the city, finding form and pragmatic order through accumulation and sequence, revealing the city's hidden, modular logic: lego-like segments, a basic square unit repeated indefinitely and in various sizes.

These images are unpeopled, showing only the architecture of the city, a container of 13 million people, organised around mass movement and the funnelling of human traffic. Between the concrete, glass and steel, the occasional green life sprouts – miniature gardens in the narrow alleyways, or a cluster of flower pots lining the sidewalk.

The architecture creates its own topography, and the city is glimpsed as the last outpost of a fading, mechanised world."

Ancient Japanese text by Kamo no Chomei, translated in English.

Design : Greger Ulf Nilsson.

The images presented here come from Gerry Johansson's website.

160 pages - Hardcover

Only Photography, 2016

*Signed*

New - Mint condition

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Johansson, Gerry

The Swedish photographer Gerry Johansson , born in 1945, has produced in 18 years a series of books on Sweden, the USA, Mongolia and Germany, in which he always uses black and white pictures with a square format of uninhabited places . Photo: © Pressfoto
  • .Sold out. Presentation by the publisher at Only Photography: "After the incredible success with Gerry Johansson's Tokyo in 2016 (the 500 edition was sold out in three months), I've been looking out for another project with the artist. For the new book America revised I've chosen 83 pictures from the big number of images, Gerry had taken in the span of...

  • Publisher's presentation: "In 2001, through a grant from the Swedish Polar Research Secretariat, Gerry Johansson traveled to the inaccessible and distinct landscape of Antarctica on a research trip for two months. With him on the journey he had a large-format camera and his fearless curiosity. The series of photos eventuate in an unusual reality relevant...

  • .Copy sold. Publisher's presentation: "Following the success of Gerry Johansson’s 2011 publication Pontiac, Deutschland completes an eighteen-year series of books for which Johansson travelled through America, Sweden, Germany and Mongolia. Deutschland is a visual encyclopedia, a catalogue of the rural and urban landscapes of Germany arranged in...

  • .Sold out. Presentation by the publisher at Only Photography: "After the incredible success with Gerry Johansson's Tokyo in 2016 (the 500 edition was sold out in three months), I've been looking out for another project with the artist. For the new book America revised I've chosen 83 pictures from the big number of images, Gerry had taken in the span of...

  • .Back in stock.Presentation by Only Photography: "This book shows – aside from very few images already published in our large scale book At home from 2011 many more exceptional images e.g. of American luxury cars of the 1960s/1970s. The great documentary photographers were essentially invisible. Your gaze went directly to the subject before the camera,...

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  • From the back cover:   "Nobuyoshi Araki's Tokyo gathers twenty-eight exquisite diptychs by the artist from the 1970s. As one of Araki's first independent book projects, Tokyo is the prelude to his searing and ongoing exploration of life and the urban space of his hometown. More than forty years after the first edition, Tokyo is being republished - as a...

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