Yusuke yamatani (3 risultati)

Paperback. First edition. AS NEW in the publisher's plastic bag. A photo-zine/artist's book featuring collages on gatefold pages which open to reveal Polaroid portraits. Yusuke Yamatani is a photographer and a drummer in the punk band Neighbors. "Use Before" was shot on one night in March 2015, after one of the band's gigs. Using expired Polaroid film, Yamatani made portraits of various audience members at the performance and then recorded the birthdate of each person on the edge of photograph. The collages are a mash-up of English and Japanese texts with comic characters, drawings, computer screenshots, and various fragments of flyers used to promote his band's performances. Photographs and artwork by Yusuke Yamatani. Anecdotally, we understand the edition was limited to 100 copies and came in two different covers, one version yellow, the other pink. Side-stapled, thin card wraps; 32 pages, all gatefolds; ca. 80 color and 16 b&w illustrations; 8.25 x 11.75 inches. Ships the next business day, wrapped in padding, in a box. …

Soft cover. Condizione: New. 2nd Edition.

Brossura. Condizione: ottimo. prima edizione. First signed and numbered edition, self published by the author in 2013 and sold out in a very short time. Yusuke Yamatani's first book. This copy is an signed artist proof (A.P.) copy. "Sometimes I feel like I'm lost between the ages. I spent my teenage and early adulthood in the 2000s, but most of the things I enjoyed were from the past. That's why with photography I want to find something that transcends space, and I'm drawn to things that have an intensity that transgresses time. When I was 22, I left the punk band I was a part of, and a simple impulse led me to photography. To find out what it meant to me photography I've traveled all over Japan and abroad, but I wasn't comfortable with just pressing the shutter at whatever news came my way. In 2010 I decided I wanted to get back into the world of live music venues, camera in hand. I felt that even those who gathered in these places drifted between the past and the present. I wanted to clarify where I came from. I decided to move to an old friend in Osaka where I barely knew anyone, as opposed to Tokyo where I had a lot of acquaintances. We were on the street every night and weekends at live music venues. I hung out with new friends until morning, but there was never a night where I felt truly accomplished and I constantly felt frustrating incompleteness. I had hoped, simplistically, to encounter something. But nothing like this has ever appeared. This is "Tsugi no yoru e"." (Yusuke Yamatani). Autografato dall'autore.…