BISHIN JUMONJI - FUJISAKI

• Description

  “I took the photographs in this book Fujisaki during the period from the late 1960s to the early 1970s, when I had not yet become a professional photographer. This was practically my first work.

  I was a student of Kanagawa Technical Senior High School in Yokohama when I met Masaki Fujisaki, the subject captured in these photographs, for the first time. He was 15 years old and I was 16 years old then. Although it was 57 years ago, I can still recall the moment quite vividly…

  When I began to pursue a path as a photographer at the age of 20 by chance, I decided to take photographs of Fujisaki to keep a record. I went to Yumenoshima, a reclaimed island on the Tokyo Bay coast, riding on my 'chopped' motorbike, a Tohatsu Runpet. We frantically ran around along the long straight road and eventually destroyed my bike and set fire to its gas tank.

  Fujisaki's wildly laughing face seemed to be proof of my excitement.

  His voice heard through my viewfinder was my own shouting, and my act of photographing him felt like I was observing myself back then.” - Bishin Jumonji
  
  

  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Condition: New
  • Dimensions: 8.2in x 11.0in, 72 pages
  • Publishing: Super Labo, 2020