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Risaku Suzuki: Mont Sainte Victoire [SIGNED]

Publisher: Tucson, Arizona: Nazraeli Press LLC, in association with The Joy of Giving Something, Inc. (JGS), New York, 2004
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 1590050851
Condition: New / New
Item #: 113642

$150.00

Specifics

First edition, first printing. Signed on the title page in black marker by Suzuki. Hardcover. Fine ecru cloth-covered boards with title stamped in white on cover and spine, with photographically illustrated dust jacket. Photographs by Risaku Suzuki. Essay by Hideki Maeda. Includes a brief chronology, exhibition history and artist's bibliography. Unpaginated (80 pp.), with 43 four-color plates beautifully printed on fine matt art paper. 13 5/8 x 16 inches. This first was edition limited to 1000 hardbound copies.

Condition

New in publisher's shrink wrap (opened for signature and inspection).

Description

From the publisher: "Featured in over fifty paintings by Cézanne, the Mont Sainte Victoire in Southern France is familiar even to those who have never been there. A century later, photographer Risaku Suzuki has followed in the great artist's footsteps, using a quite different medium to depict the landscape on the way. In Suzuki's photographs there is a feeling of movement and progression, giving the journey a pace that ought to be at odds with a series of static images. Sometimes it is as if the camera has legs and a mind of its own as it strays from the path to take in just one more inconspicuous part of the environment -- and all the while the audience is beckoned to come along too. Using limited depth of field, Suzuki focuses the lens on a tree, a piece of rock, unexceptional segments of a remarkable climb upwards. Risaku Suzuki is one of Japan's most prominent young photographers. His work has been widely published in Japan, and exhibited in Asia, Europe and the United States. His photographs were included in 'The History of Japanese Photography' exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. He is a past winner of the Kimura Ihee Award."