Toshio Shibata
Yodaka

Photographs: Toshio Shibata

Publisher: Zen Foto

48 pages

Pictures: 41

Year: 2015

Comments: Hardcover in a slipcase. First edition, 2015. Black & white photographs. Text in english and in japanese. New.

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"The end of the 1970s saw the completion of Japan's postwar construction, as well as a withering of the student movement and the various terrorist acts that had shaken the global community. The early 1980s was a brief interlude of calm, anticipating the end of the long Showa era, before Japan was deluged by the bubble economy.

I had just returned to Japan in 1980, after studying for four years in Flanders where time moves slowly, and the atmosphere is very relaxed. In addition to the rapidly advancing westernization, the reality of this new Tokyo, where old pre-war Showa is blended with modern Showa (post-war) looked disorderly and chaotic to me, and it was not easy to capture it visually.

I struggled to realize my own mode of expression in this home country of mine, and began by chasing lights of the night-time to deflect this chaos."

Toshio Shibata, afterword Yodaka

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