Till dawn (SIGNED)

Takamoto Yamauchi
Till dawn (SIGNED)

Photographs: Takamoto Yamauchi

Publisher: Case Publishing

112 pages

Pictures: 60

Year: 2016

Comments: Softcover, 297 x 210 mm. First edition, 2016. Black & white photographs. Text in japanese. Edition limited to 700 copies. Signed by Takamoto Yamauchi.

0Everybody carries some psychological pain in their mind or heart, some more of it, some less.
There are many who cannot escape from it.
For me, there is nothing I can do but take their photos. I cannot save them, and I cannot be saved.
This is a story about the pain of my mother, my sister, my girlfriend, of my pain and that of the women I have encountered.

— Takamoto Yamauchi

Using two types of black ink, the photos that make up this work as well as the cover surrounding it have been printed on Japan’s finest ultra high-gloss paper.
The end paper has been printed in three colors (two types of black ink, one silver), on jet-black paper even darker than the ink, giving the impression of a tonally inversed print.
The book was bound traditionally, using EVA (ethylene vinyl acetate). As a result, the pages can never quite be fully opened, with opposite pages reflecting the content of each other, hopefully pulling their reader even deeper into Takamoto’s work.

— statement by the publisher