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Asahi Camera Issue 10 October 1973 fotomagasin.
Teksten fortsetter på engelsk.
Asahi Camera is Japan’s longest running monthly photo magazine. Published April 1926 - July 2020, it primarily featured contemporary Japanese photography.
Today, Asahi Camera is recognised as a cultural institution and one of the instrumental monthly circulations to influence domicile photo history.
1968. Asahi Camera showcase the visual portfolios of photographers Takuma Nakahira and Daido Moriyama of the pioneering photo collective Provoke Group. The collaboration marked the advent of a particularly groundbreaking period in Asahi Camera that lasted to the early 1980s.
During the late ’60’s and early ‘70s the Japanese society and in extension its cultural sector were evolving at an immense pace. The photographic work in Asahi Camera is an amalgamation of this era and mechanism energies.
This number in selection: Ikko Narahara «Silent America», Daido Moriyama «Indigenous Series: Five pictures», Masatoshi Naito «Maples», Shin Yanigisawa «Midsummer night».
5 reasons WHY Asahi Camera:
1: THE PRISTINE CRAFT from pioneering photographers and artists.
2: ONLY ACCESS. The magazine are in many instances the only place to view its printed works as most features never have been re-printed or presented in photo book format.
3: GRAVURE PRINTING. Asahi Camera was printed in gravure. A photomechanical process developed for high-quality picture reproduction. Qualities that in black and white or monochrome photography render exceptional resolution and sharpness, as well as beautiful ink density and subtle nuance gradations. In most cases, readers will find that the material in Asahi Camera exceed the print quality of today.
4: VISUAL RESOURCE: Asahi Camera is an immense resource for images, graphic design, typography to printing. In this conjunction, the title contain indispensable reference material for all archivers, researchers and creatives.
5: PHYSICAL MATERIALITY IS VISUAL LANGUAGE. In art history’s oil paintings, we see that the canvas, grounding, paints and mediums all are intrinsic parts of the work and finalized visual image. This is also true for photography. Studying Asahi Camera, we see how paper quality and printing inks are strong image determinators. To fully embrace featured artists, works and era it is essential to study the direct produce of the sum. Therefore: If you are kin with the Provoke Group, Daido Moriyama or 1970s art and documentary photography: Asahi Camera 1973 is a mandatory destination.
Soft cover, perfect bound
Japanese language
Color and B&W
Format: 18 cm x 25,8 cm
376 pages
Published by Asahi Newspaper Company October 1973.
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