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Fusako Kodama
1960-80
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Between agitation and lightness, Fusako Kodama depicts the effervescence of modern Japan. From 1960 to 1980, she captures the atmosphere of places and the energy of people.
Movement is constant; disorder occurs at times; gestures are carefree and instinctive: Fusako Kodama captures forward momentum. Her spontaneous photographs summon surprising perspectives where subjects appear slightly out of sync.
Between restlessness and lightness, Fusako Kodama portrays a certain effervescence of modern Japan. From 1960 to 1980, she captures the atmosphere of cities and villages inhabited by animated beings. Through her unusual and spontaneous framing, the prolific photographer casts a gaze that is both gentle and vibrant over twenty years of Japan.
1960-1980 is the first book by Fusako Kodama published in the West, where she is still relatively unknown. This work aligns with the ongoing efforts of Chose Commune, which aims to shed light on contemporary Japanese photographers beyond their country of origin.
Editing and sequencing: Cécile Poimboeuf-Koizumi
Design: Cécile Poimboeuf-Koizumi, in collaboration with Perrine Serre
168 pages
50 plates
22 x 26 cm
Section-sewn hardcover
French / English / Japanese
Publication date: April 2025
ISBN: 979-10-96383-43-6
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Issei Suda
78
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78 special edition comprises a first edition book with one of two prints by Issei Suda — each on an edition of 15 — housed together in a handmade slipcase.
The prints have been authentified by the archive and are numbered and stamped on the reverse.
Print size: 20,3 x 20,3 cm
Image size: 19,3 x 19,3 cm
A photographer of everyday life, the instantaneous, the furtive and the snapshot, he teaches at Tokyo College of Photography and Zokei University in Tokyo, as well as at the Photography Department of Osaka University of the Arts. He has held over 190 solo exhibitions in his lifetime.
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Issei Suda
Holy Night
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Issei Suda presents an almost absurd and automatic parade of Tokyo on Christmas Eve, capturing it with humor tinged with cynicism.
Holy Night presents photographs that Issei Suda took on the night of Christmas Eve 1991 in Tokyo.
« I wonder how many Japanese people actually think of Jesus Christ on Christmas. We just observe Christmas Eve by buying cake and bringing it home to eat; lovers spend it together as the most romantic night of the year. These kinds of customs have become the norm. I could suddenly play the part of the righteous Buddhist and call everyone out on it – You dumbasses, you aren’t even Christians – but it feels like it’d be a waste. » — Issei Suda
A photographer of everyday life, the instantaneous, the furtive and the snapshot, he teaches at Tokyo College of Photography and Zokei University in Tokyo, as well as at the Photography Department of Osaka University of the Arts. He has held over 190 solo exhibitions in his lifetime.
Editorial direction: Cécile Poimboeuf-Koizumi
Design: Akiko Wakabayashi
60 pages
42 plates
28 x 28,3 cm
Section-sewn hardcover
English / French / Japanese
Publicaiton date: November 12th 2022
ISBN: 979-10-96383-36-8
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Mikiko Hara
Small Myths
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As if capturing the “in-between” — the moment just before—, Mikiko Hara seizes the present through photography, before the eye and mind. She observes and tells stories as fragments of life, where coincidence often seems to make an appearance.
Mikiko Hara has her own way of secretly capturing the strangers who cross her path: a young man on the train, a couple holding hands, a little girl playing in a park… Sometimes their eyes meet briefly as she presses the shutter, but Mikiko Hara does not exchange with her subjects. Yet, these portraits reveal something infinitely personal, as if the photographer and her subjects were bound by an invisible pact: being in the right place at the right time.
Mikiko Hara’s approach, firmly rooted in a documentation of everyday life, extends in the intimacy of her living space: cut flowers in the sink, a strawberry shortcake in the fridge, her three sons dozing on the floor. The eye of the photographer, who is also a mother and wife, moves back and forth from the outside to the inside, from the public to the private sphere. Wherever she is, Mikiko Hara observes and tells stories like fragments of life.
At the initiative of the publisher – who made the selection in collaboration with the artist – these unpublished photographs from 1996 to 2021 have been assembled in this book, entitled Small Myths.
Editorial direction: Cécile Poimboeuf-Koizumi
Design: Bureau Kayser & Chose Commune
Text: Mikiko Hara
104 pages
57 plates
23 x 27 cm
Section-sewn OTA-bound softcover with flaps
French / English / Japanese
Publication date: November 9th 2022
ISBN: 979-10-96383-34-4
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