Toshio Shibata: Japan - Covering the career of one of Japan's leading photographers
the most revered, this monograph - the only volume of its kind in the language
English - features exquisitely detailed full-page images that capture
the relationship between man-made structures and the natural world.
\nToshio Shibata's large-scale contemporary landscapes stand out
by their haunting beauty, graceful composition and detail
meticulous. \n \nBy using long exposures and eliminating any
reference to people, horizons or points of reference
geographically, Shibata captures structures such as dams,
bridges, reservoirs and roads that interact with their environment
natural - mountainsides, rivers, forests and fields. The results are
highlighted by a pictorial composition; they are filled with patterns,
lines and fluid actions, and their aesthetic is undeniably Japanese.
\nPresented and narrated by Phillip Prodger, one of the most erudite and
the most critical of contemporary photography, this book will please both
to fans of Shibata's work as well as to an audience that has not yet discovered
his remarkable work.
