Publisher/Zen Foto Gallery

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"HOKKAIDO: Sakuan, Matapaan" is a collection of works by Takehiko Nakato, one of Japan's leading photographers. "Every time I look at his photographs, I can't help but feel that there is a strong connection somewhere with the lineage of photographers from the past, such as PROVOKE and CAMP." This is a comment by Daido Moriyama written in a separate volume of Nakato's collection. From the late 1960s to the mid-1980s, monochrome, high-contrast, graphical "photographic images" became a kind of synonym for postwar Japanese photography, and representative figures of this include Daido Moriyama, Takuma Nakahira, and Keizo Kitajima. Takehiko Nakato is the leading figure in this lineage. His style has not wavered even a little, and he continues to take street photographs like a sniper, as seen in his recent works such as "White Noise" (2018) and the retrospective "Street Rambler" (2014). This book is a collection of images taken in Hokkaido in both "summer" and "winter." In the Ainu language, "Sakuan" means "winter is coming" and "Matapaan" means "summer is coming." Two-volume set + booklet included.