Publisher/旅行読売出版社

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Japanese photographer Toshio Shibata's photo book ``Landscape (Second Printing, Signed)''. Toshio Shibata is highly regarded around the world as Japan's leading landscape photographer. He is a photographer whose distinctive work is not so-called landscape photography that captures the natural beauty of nature, but a mixture of artificially transformed natural objects and created objects. Civil engineering facilities such as dams and roads are made with carefully calculated structures and careful handwork, and have the beauty of intersecting straight lines and curves, as well as the beauty of symmetry and patterns. It symbolizes "technology". Landscapes colored by the contrast between such man-made objects and natural objects, which are in no way mutually exclusive, are full of sculptural beauty and are a symbol of Japanese art. While it contains elements of "technology" and "art," it cannot be overlooked that it also has the aspect of "destruction of nature" carried out due to human material desires. Toshio Shibata's photographs show glimpses of high artistry, Japan's uniqueness, and journalistic qualities, condensing the multifaceted appeal of photography. This book is a collection of catalog works published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography from 2008 to 2009. Published in 2009, 2nd edition. Signed by the photographer .