Yokainoshima: Island of Monsters: Japanese Folk Rituals - Rilegato

Fréger, Charles

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ISBN 10: 050054459X ISBN 13: 9780500544594

Casa editrice: Thames & Hudson, 2016

Riassunto

In Japan, the passing of the year is marked by festivals and rituals that have gone largely unchanged for centuries. Elaborate outfits, made from textiles as well as branches, straw, and other materials plucked from the natural environment, are donned in rural, agricultural, and fishing communities throughout Japan to celebrate seasonal rites of fertility and abundance. Yokainoshima (literally “island of monsters”) explores the extraordinary crop of masks, costumes, and characters that reappear with the return of each season.Charles Fréger’s photographs combine the attention to detail of a documentary photograph with individual portraiture in a fresh and distinctive style. Texts by specialists in Japanese folk culture and anthropology accompany the photographs, putting the huge variety of eclectic costumes in context with descriptions of the local festivals, dances, and rituals where they are worn.This compelling sequence of new portraits by an internationally acclaimed photographer will captivate enthusiasts of fine art photography and far off places as it pulls back the curtain on a strange and magical centuries-old tradition.

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Recensione:

'Yokainoshima is a very unusual book and a must-have for any cultural aficionado.' -- Selvedge

'Charles Fréger...combines acute documentary attentiveness with individual portraiture'
Embroidery Magazine

A very special new title that will enthrall Fréger's many fans, photography aficionados and anyone with a fascination for folk traditions and Japanese culture. --Photography News

'...(Fréger's) striking, staged portraits are accompanied by a charmingly illustrated index of individual costumes, essays and an introduction by the poet Ryoko Sekiguchi.'--Crafts Magazine

'Part artistic preoccupation, part creative ethnography, his series of carefully composed portraits channels the essence of what makes makes these spirits such an enduring and transcendental cultural phenomenon...A man of immense enthusiasm and commitment to his craft.' --It's Nice That

The images in this book are utterly fascinating, as is the historical context laid out in the essays that bookend them. Yokainoshima is a beautiful achievement, and one you can lose yourself in for hours. --Amateur Photographer

Dazzling photographs --BA Highlife

L'autore:

Charles Freger is a photographer based in Rouen, France. His previous books include Wilder Mann and Portraits in Lace: Breton Women. His work has been featured in many publications including National Geographic.

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• Editore: Thames & Hudson
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 050054459X
• ISBN 13: 9780500544594
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 255