Publisher/岩波書店

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"Katsura Villa Space and From (Signed)" is a collection of works by Yasuhiro Ishimoto, one of Japan's leading postwar photographers. This is Ishimoto's second work on the Katsura Villa, photographed after a 30-year hiatus. Ishimoto, who studied photography and design in America, superimposed the planar composition of the facades painted by Mies van der Rohe, which he saw in Chicago, onto his monochrome architectural photographs, which he captured with an "aesthetics of subtraction." These were published in 1960 as "Katsura: Tradition and Creation in Japanese Architecture," designed by Herbert Bayer. A new edition designed by Yusaku Kamekura was published in 1971. During this time spent in Japan, Ishimoto's "aesthetics" also underwent a change, and this "aesthetics of addition," which goes beyond the beauty of form and detail and incorporates the beauty of gloss, pattern, and color, is fully depicted in this work. It can be said to be one of the finest color architectural photographs of the postwar era. Signed by the photographer .