“In the old times, before the capital changed from Kyoto to Tokyo, cherry trees were considered a frightful sight. No one thought them a sign of beauty. […] Without a trace of human life beneath it, a cherry in full bloom becomes a fearful sight.”
The fifth instalment of Match & Company’s “Japanese Photography x Contemporary Literature” series.
In “Daido Moriyama: Ango”, Daido Moriyama’s frightening photographs of cherry trees are set to Ango Sakaguchi’s famous short-story “In the Forest, Beneath Cherries in Full Bloom”.
The “demonic beauty of the cherry blossoms” of Moriyama and Sakaguchi turn into a jet-black photobook of bottomless loneliness, emptiness and dangerous seduction.
- stock nr
- NB075
- author
- Daido Moriyama, Ango Sakaguchi
- title
- Ango (English Edition) (2017)
- artist(s):
- publisher
- bookshop M
- edition
- First edition
- width x height
- 165 mm x 240 mm
- ISBN
- 978-4-908647-09-3
- price:
- € 64 (excluding shipping)
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