Since the advent of photography, certain cities have become inextricably intertwined with their depiction by great photographers: Eugene Atget in turn-of-the-century Paris; Berenice Abbott in 1930s New York; Ed Ruscha in late-60s Los Angeles. While Daido Moriyama documented the disaffection and dissipation of postwar Tokyo, Takashi Homma picks up the baton with a contemporary portrait of the modern-day metropolis that is both cinematic and complex. For over a decade, Homma has turned the neutral gaze of his lens toward Tokyo's suburban environs and urban center. As in all of his work, Homma's vision of Tokyo navigates a finely nuanced line between sterility and sentimentality, detachment and lusciousness, presenting a sleek, contemporary vision of a postmodern megalopolis populated by a new generation of video-game aficionados and fashionistas. While Homma has published extensively inside his native Japan, this is his first volume published for an international audience. Takashi Homma: Tokyo compiles selections from each of the artist's six previously published titles on the city, including Tokyo Suburbia, his seminal work now considered a contemporary classic.
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"This book is a kind of visual symphony that evokes the passing moods and countless facets of the city where Homma was born and continues to live." -- Ivan Vartanian --Modern Painters
"Tokyo parking lots, housing developments, fast-food chains: These are not the stuff of tourist dreams. But to Japanese photographer Takashi Homma, such suburban wastelands and urban blights are places of unlikely serenity, eerily striking and always cinematic." --Culture + Travel Magazine
"With every shot, the former i-D magazine photographer aims to expose a different side of Japan. His reality includes stark urban landscapes of suburban apartment complexes, parking lots, fast food joints and factories. Homma also snapped portraits of listless teenagers consuming burgers and entranced children playing video games. But his work is hardly depressing fare. Homma's photographs show a genuine affection for Japanese suburban life, which he experienced firsthand growing up on the outskirts of Tokyo." --WWD Scoop
"Homma's images provide a candid and heartfelt look at the city and the people who inhabit it." --Shutterbug
"Homma interweaves several series of images to produce his unique vision of the new city that has emerged in recent years... Takashi Homma's Tokyo seems to be the state of the art Brave New World, post-modern, post-industrial, and all but post-human." -- Bill Kouwenhoven --HotShoe Magazine
"Tokyo parking lots, housing developments, fast-food chains: These are not the stuff of tourist dreams. But to Japanese photographer Takashi Homma, such suburban wastelands and urban blights are places of unlikely serenity, eerily striking and always cinematic." --Culture + Travel Magazine
"With every shot, the former i-D magazine photographer aims to expose a different side of Japan. His reality includes stark urban landscapes of suburban apartment complexes, parking lots, fast food joints and factories. Homma also snapped portraits of listless teenagers consuming burgers and entranced children playing video games. But his work is hardly depressing fare. Homma's photographs show a genuine affection for Japanese suburban life, which he experienced firsthand growing up on the outskirts of Tokyo." --WWD Scoop
"Homma's images provide a candid and heartfelt look at the city and the people who inhabit it." --Shutterbug
"Homma interweaves several series of images to produce his unique vision of the new city that has emerged in recent years... Takashi Homma's Tokyo seems to be the state of the art Brave New World, post-modern, post-industrial, and all but post-human." -- Bill Kouwenhoven --HotShoe Magazine
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takashi homma is a master and i have already comproved it in his giant little book - tokio and my daughter. i loved it so much that i just had to afford this one which has a broader view of this photographer's work. he has such a delicate and sharp eye. his photos from tokio just talk about ordinary life in the city,the essence of it - unpretentious and beautiful. a wonderful book for photographers, photography lovers and anyone who loves beautiful things
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