Comments on: Tokyo 1934-1993 http://www.japanexposures.com/2004/07/31/tokyo-1934-1993/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tokyo-1934-1993 a personal introduction to Japanese photography Wed, 01 Feb 2012 02:06:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Kurt http://www.japanexposures.com/2004/07/31/tokyo-1934-1993/comment-page-1/#comment-255 Kurt Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.unicircuits.com/?p=185#comment-255 Now that's a coincindence! I actually own this book, having bought it when I was here in 1997. I often used to look at it, but haven't recently. But being on a Japan photography kick of late, I was recently thinking of looking at it again, indeed just before I came online I was just checking to make sure it was indeed on my shelf. What a coincidence! The reason I bought it way back then was that it was very similar (in feel more than in content, for sure) to the thick brick-like Atget book I owned at the time (still do)....there was something very appealing to me about that (seemingly) endless documenting of the city, be it Paris or Tokyo. Interestingly enough, I wanted to re-look at it these days because of course I am completely different in how I see things, and I've been interested in this idea that when you think about it, most of these "omnibus" documentary projects are in fact, relatively uninteresting, and what one is left with is just their "documentary value" which is somehow ultimately unsatisfying. Time to go pop it open though.... Now that’s a coincindence! I actually own this book, having bought it when I was here in 1997. I often used to look at it, but haven’t recently. But being on a Japan photography kick of late, I was recently thinking of looking at it again, indeed just before I came online I was just checking to make sure it was indeed on my shelf. What a coincidence!

The reason I bought it way back then was that it was very similar (in feel more than in content, for sure) to the thick brick-like Atget book I owned at the time (still do)….there was something very appealing to me about that (seemingly) endless documenting of the city, be it Paris or Tokyo. Interestingly enough, I wanted to re-look at it these days because of course I am completely different in how I see things, and I’ve been interested in this idea that when you think about it, most of these “omnibus” documentary projects are in fact, relatively uninteresting, and what one is left with is just their “documentary value” which is somehow ultimately unsatisfying.

Time to go pop it open though….

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