Publisher/Akio Nagasawa Publishing

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"Monokusa Shui" is a collection of works by Japanese photographer Issei Suda (1940–2019). This book presents the entire series, including 48 works serialized in Nippon Camera over two years from 1980, plus 13 works shown at a photo exhibition in 1982. It is the most direct expression of Suda's approach, which continues to focus dispassionately on "things" after the human presence has left them. Suda intentionally distances himself from emotion and narrative, concentrating on how to capture the fragments of everyday life he has picked up as inorganic entities. The "Shui" (Collected Works) in the title also refers to his gaze on the everyday objects that lie on the periphery of life. Without a specific theme such as rural issues or social challenges, and approaching them with an attitude free of emotional attachment or speculation, insignificant objects such as rusty metal fittings and torn pieces of paper quietly emerge on the canvas, defying explanation. The book is imbued with Suda's characteristic dry humor and unique blank space, and the strength of "things being things" buried in everyday life emerges with a quiet resonance. Limited to 600 copies. Numbered.