OSAMU KANEMURA

My Name Is Shockhammer

Tokyo Osiris 2007 . Large unbound sheets contained in a plastic sleeve. One of 1000 copies signed by Kanemura. Fine condition. Paperback. Fine.

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Book number: 10270

Catalogue: Photography

KANEMURA, OSAMU

Spider's Strategy

Tokyo, Osiris Co, 2001. First edition. jp_oversized_book. 22x28. This hardcover book is OUT-OF-PRINT and is in VERY FINE condition. As new/As new.
¶ Osamu Kanemura's photography in Spider's Strategy borrows from the tradition of the Becher's juxtapositional comparison and contrast of form, but does so at a much closer perspective. Here, it feels as though the Artist is nearly trapped under the complex maze of the urban Tokyo infrastructure. Kanemura apparently took these photos as he wound through the city, delivering newspapers to support himself. Is he the spider of the title, attempting to survive the overwhelming and alienating web of man's own creation? The near-claustrophobic visuals of sprawling and interconnected telephone, power lines, and buildings suggests so. This vision of Tokyo is "a city so replete with wires and signs that the visual construction of Kanemura's exuberant imagery describes a spacial complexity to rival the best of Jackson Pollock" (Parr & Badger, "The Photobook, A History, Vol. II").

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Book number: 908

Keywords: 4309904408