ISBN: 9782365110280 - yuriko takagi: sei (5 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Near fine. Quarto. 13 3/4 x 10". Unpaginated. 64pp. Single paragraph of text in french and English. Blossfeldt style photographs of seed pods in b&w. Grey paper covered boards with mounted illustration, issued without dust jacket.

Zustand: as new. Paris : Éditions Xavier Barral, [2014]. Hardcover. [68] pp. chiefly illustrations. 34 cm. Text in French, English, and Japanese. - This lusciously produced volume examines the multiple meanings deriving from a single word, also exploring how seemingly similar images can be perceived so differently as a result of our personal associations. 'Sei' is a Japanese word which, although always pronounced the same, can be represented by no less than 28 kanji characters with a diverse host of meanings: star, voice, blue, sex, energy, death, betrayal, peace of mind, purity. Here, the photographer Yuriko Takagi opens up this semantic cacophony, in depictions of 28 flower buds, each of which is associated with a separate kanji character. Streaked, folded petals, downy pistils, silken stamens, woolly aigrettes: are these flowers, sexual organs, bits of creased taffeta, or puffed-up tissue paper? Takagi's images are as polymorphic as the kanji that inspired them. Condition : as new copy. ISBN 9782365110280. Keywords : PHOTOGRAPHY, flowers.…

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. 1st Edition. 64pp., 24.5x34.5cm. Bilingual french/english.

ÉTAT : NEUF / NEW CONDITION 9782365110280 249721 2.

Hardcover. Zustand: New.