Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji

Takashi Homma

MACK

£35.00 GBP

This collection of new work by celebrated photographer Takashi Homma approaches one of the most iconic and widely represented images in Japan and the world: Mount Fuji. With its title referencing Hokusai’s famous series of ukiyo-e woodblock prints, Homma evokes his country’s traditions of representation and depiction while offering a haunting new encounter with his subject. Using pinhole cameras as well as digital technology, Homma forms ghostly images of the mountain as it resides to the southwest of Tokyo in collaged views that place it ambiguously in the wider landscape – both invoking and subverting the spectacle it has come to be associated with. With this new book, Homma writes a subtle and essential new chapter in the history of Japanese visual culture.

OTA bound paperback
Bilingual English / Japanese
24 x 30cm, 80 pages

ISBN 978-1-915743-25-1
October 2023
€40 £35 $45

The signed edition includes a slip signed by the artist and glued into the inside back cover.

‘In capturing its indefinable and transient qualities, Homma’s photographs allow Mount Fuji to gently unfurl in the haze of the everyday.’ ArtReview

‘[The book] evokes and subverts the spectacle with which [Mount Fuji] is associated.’ Guillotine

‘We see Mount Fuji isolated, but also as an extension of the urban fabric, dominating the landscape but also being subordinated to it.’ Kathimerini Magazine

‘How do you see something anew that has been seen so many times before? Takashi Homma shows us.’ Conscientious Photography Magazine 

Interview in IMA Magazine
Featured in Les Inrockuptibles 

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