Sonotoki, Kaze ga, Yonin no mune wo kushizashi ni shita.

Ben Sakamoto
Sonotoki, Kaze ga, Yonin no mune wo kushizashi ni shita.

Photographs: Ben Sakamoto

Text: Yoshinari Nishimura

Publisher: West Village

124 pages

Pictures: 68

Year: 1981

Comments: Softcover, 190 x 260 mm. First edition, 1981. Black & white photographs. Text in japanese. In very good condition other than some traces of soiling on covers.

This modern photobook presents views in Yoyogi park, near Shibuya, in Tokyo, during the beginning of the eighties : people do sports, frisbee, trampoline, skate, a young baseball player drinks coke. Everything suggests the influence of the american culture in the urban life of japanese people. Ben Sakamoto uses high black and white contrasts creating graphic patterns by using overexposed light. The granularity of the images creates a special aesthetic. The lines of the road or of the pavement turn to geometric motifs, the shadows and figures on the street are originally composed.