Publisher/Spector Books

Google翻訳
This book is a collection of cloud images taken by Japanese physicist and doctor of science Abe Masanao (1891-1966), edited by German contemporary artist Helmut Volter, titled "The Movement of Clouds around Mount Fuji - Photographed and Filmed by Masanao Abe". Abe is a scholar who has studied the air currents of mountain clouds. He established a laboratory near Mount Fuji and continued to capture "Mount Fuji and clouds" for nearly 15 years, and, influenced by his love of film, he continued to investigate the visualization of air currents, sometimes using video. The series of archives had been stored in the Abe family barn for many years, but Helmut Volter, who also studied and depicted clouds, discovered Abe's legacy and re-edited the photographs, research materials, and shooting scenes, sometimes interweaving them with the direction of the sequence, and compiled them into a book. This work is a good example of how a documentary material has been elevated to a new artistic work.