Tokyo Camera Style - Brossura

Sypal, John

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0500291675 ISBN 13: 9780500291672

Casa editrice: Thames & Hudson, 2015

Riassunto

Founded in 2008, John Sypal’s blog, Tokyo Camera Style, has a devoted and passionate international following and has inspired a network of similar blogs worldwide. In street portraits taken on the fly, we see Tokyo’s film-camera enthusiasts posing with their favorite photographic equipment. The images not only catalog the amazing range of cameras used by the most obsessive photography geeks but also offer a glimpse into a street culture where the photograph means everything and the camera takes center stage.Now, 300 of Sypal’s colorful photographs of weird and wonderful cameras and their creative owners have been gathered together in a one-of-a-kind book. Often taken from above, with the camera owners’ faces out of view, the images show telling details that might otherwise have been missed: the clothes, the jewelry, hands and feet, shoes and socks, customized camera straps, and other photography-related paraphernalia. Beyond the wonderful selection of rare, customized, and vintage analog camera makes, models, and lenses are portraits of the individual personalities who make up the avid street photography scene in Japan.

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Recensione:

Entertaining ... an endearingly obsessive collection of curiosities. --RPS Journal

Sypal uses digital image-making and the internet to document our continued affection for the film-based medium, to highlight the vast range of analogue cameras that are still in use. --Aesthetica

L'autore:

John Sypal collects and uses a wide range of analog cameras, and has documented over 3,000 camera enthusiasts and their gear on his blog Tokyo Camera Style. An American, he has lived in Japan since 2004.

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• Editore: Thames & Hudson
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0500291675
• ISBN 13: 9780500291672
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 276