Kishi no Machi (A Town Already Seen)
Kanendo Watanabe
Kishi no Machi (A Town Already Seen)
Photographs: Kanendo Watanabe
Text: Mieko Kanai
Publisher: Shincho sha
152 pages
Pictures: 52
Year: 1980
Comments: Soft cover, illustrated slipcase with obi. Included in the Japanese photo book by Kaneko and Vartanian p 228-231. Some spots to the slipcase and a small tear to obi.
Kishi no Machi [A Town Already Seen]. Photographs by Kanendo Watanabe. Text by Mieko Kanai (in Japanese). Shinchosha, Tokyo, 1980. 152 pp. Octavo (small size). Photo-illustrated wrappers in glossy dust jacket. Copperplate black-and-white reproductions . Matching slipcase with printed obi [belly band].
Reminiscent of the austere, minimalist style of New Topographics photographers (Lewis Baltz, Robert Adams, Joe Deal, etc..)-- but with atmospherics that are distinctly Surreal. As Vartanian and Kaneko describe in Japanese Photobooks of the 1960s and 1970s, Mieko Kanai's opening text is typical of the "i-novel" genre, in which narrative is based on the everyday life of the writer. But is also "very close in feel to Andre Breton's 1928 surrealist novel, Nadja...[the images] [evoke] the feeling of being lost in an unfamiliar town." Winner of the 1981 Ihei Kimura Prize.
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