Publisher/Akio Nagasawa Publishing

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"Concrete Abstraction" is a collection of works by Toshio Shibata (1949), one of Japan's leading photographers. After studying oil painting at the Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate School, he studied photography at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent, Belgium. Since the 1980s, he has captured landscapes where infrastructure such as dams, roads, retaining walls, and bridges intersect with nature, using meticulous detail with a large-format camera. In 1992, he received the Ihei Kimura Photography Award, and has gained high acclaim overseas, including a solo exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago. This book was published in 2015 to coincide with the exhibition of the same name held at the Akio Nagasawa Gallery, and is an important work that showcases Shibata's landscape expression in color in a cohesive form. Concrete subjects such as concrete, roads, water, and vegetation are transformed into overlapping lines, planes, and colors through skillful framing, and as the title suggests, "Concrete" and "Abstraction" vividly intersect. Shibata's photographic perspective, which captures landscapes not by directly depicting human activity, but through the infrastructure that serves as its trace, is further highlighted by the use of color. The book is of extremely high quality, including its neat binding using cloth, and is limited to 600 copies. Signed and numbered by the photographer .