Just a quickie as I take a break from posting about Fred Ritchin’s ‘The Synthetic Eye’ due to a few days in the photo-mecca that is Tokyo.
Here are a few pictures from yesterday and today (Saturday) - the highlight so far has to be meeting Yasunori Hoki, the legendary founder of publisher, Super Labo. I met him yesterday and he asked me to come back today because Herbie Yamaguchi was holding an ‘event’ at Super Labo. I turned up this afternooin just in time to hear Herbie’s friend, a professional singer, whose name I didn’t catch, give an imprompu performance at Herbie’s request. This sums up the spirit of photography in Japan.
Enjoy!
Oh and this is Megutama, the spiritual home of photo books. It is here that writer, Lizawa Kotaro has allowd his collection of some 5000 books to be accessible to anyone. And you can eat katsu at the same time.
As an active photograph critic and historian for over 30 years, unintentionally, Iizawa Kotaro has collected an enormous amount of photograph books. From his huge collection, 5000 of his books are to be shared, on the bookshelves at MEGUTAMA diner.
The books are carefully placed in order from the 19th century to current, in historic order categorized by photographers. It would be our pleasure if you can enjoy and discover the fun of photographs and be interested, and inspired through the beautiful photo books. You can explore the library freely, but please be cautious handling the precious books.
Back soon…
Alex
A Talking Heads coda…
