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Shigeichi Nagano’s Hong Kong Reminiscence 1958
Independent curator Marc Feustel has written a review of Shigeichi Nagano’s recent photo book, Hong Kong Reminiscence 1958, published over at Lens Culture. It’s a succinct piece but does a good job of conveying the wonder of these photos that were taken by Nagano over 50 years ago, as well as help to place the shamefully under-known Nagano into context.
We have for a limited time signed copies of this book available at the publisher’s price of ¥3,990. The title has been selling well and, given that there have only been 700 copies printed, will surely sell out before long. Actually, Hong Kong Reminiscence 1958 is one of two new books the 84-year old Nagano released over New Years, the other being a collection of Tokyo street snaps mainly from this decade: Distant Gaze: Dark Blossom of Winter — the subtitle being a classical Chinese reference to the last phase of someone’s life. We have signed copies of this title available as well.
Please view Shigeichi Nagano’s page in our bookstore for these and other Nagano titles we’re currently carrying.
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September 8th, 2009 at 18:21
This is indeed a good collection, though as for so many books by Soukyuusha and related enterprises, the printing quality isn’t what it might be.
Feustel mentions “the 1995 exhibition catalogue Tokyo, City of Photographs“. Now that is excellently printed (though poorly bound; the back tends to fall off). To judge from the catalogue, the exhibition (which I didn’t see) had no coherence, and one or two of the best known among the photographers turned in some truly forgettable work. But copies of the catalogue are plentiful and cheap, and it’s an excellent introduction to Nagano’s distant perspective series and to Kikai’s Asakusa portrait series; and it’s a rare opportunity to see work by the elusive Hayashi Takanobu (and no I don’t mean the very different Hayashi Tadahiko). Hayashi merits more exposure; he only put out a single book (Zoo): slim, self-published, and not easy to find.