Takashi Homma’s photographs have always stood by our sides since the 1990s. The Tokyo neighborhoods that are repeatedly reconstucted using scraps; the ocean waves surging and receding; the mushrooms in the forests – he directs his attention to such things that, although seemingly unchanging, are subject to constant transition.
For each shoot, he only releases his shutter a few times. He allows his photographs to change depending on the media. He lies without a second thought. He enjoys how the lies in the photographs appear like the truth. Homma’s photographs are constantly fluid. “I don’t really like retrospectives, summaries.” This feature, which began with these words from a photographer unwilling to follow an authoritative and pre-established course, is a disjointed combination of bodies of work from the last few years, diaries, conversations with some, and text from others. When it seems to near, it moves away. Trying to grasp the “now” of such a kind of existence, it resulted in one volume the like of a scrapbook.
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Contents
Takashi Homma and his position today
A MIX OF RECENT WORKS
DIALOGUE Ari Marcopoulos
ESSAY
A note on “frame,” after the conversation with Takashi Homma
Text by Ari Marcopoulos
DIALOGUE Cecilie Bahnsen
Guido Guidi
“Once the Shore”Paul Yoon
DIALOGUE Yurie Nagashima
ESSAY
How Arata Isozaki Would See the Current Tokyo
Text by Eiji Hato
Ed Templuton
Why does he like the photographs of non-photographers?
NAZE
ESSAY
MUSHROOMS FROM THE FOREST
Text by Francesco Zanot
ESSAY
Strictly boring–on Takashi Homma’s fashion photographs
Text by Yuzu Murakami
DIALOGUE Michael Mack
Futoshi Miyagi
Robert Adams
Takanori Suzuki
ESSAY
Photography and Space
Text by Maki Onishi
DIALOGUE Ivan Vartanian
ESSAY
Dear Homma From Raiki
Text by Raiki Yamamoto
ESSAY
Chiba City Blues
Text by Lesley A. Martin
Masafumi Sanai
cassette tape
Jack Day
Hanna Moon
ESSAY
I Picture What I See
Text by Giovanna Borasi
Mana Ogata
Showroom Model
Improvisation (F Minor)
DIALOGUE Mariko Asabuki
Typhoon and optimistic
Richter Raum
A room for a dialogue with Gerhard Richter
Text by Sumi Hayashi
Kiyoji Otsuji Seeing Beyond Things
Text by Masahiro Kodaira
IMA next “OPEN CALL”
GRAND PRIX : Claire Sunho Lee
SHORT LIST: Masashi Mihotani / Masaru Takahash / Li Aixiao / Nagisa Tsuji / Anton Kuehnhackl
Van Cleef & Arpelsʼ desire to support the choreographic heritage
Conversation with GUCCIʼs art created through an art book
The Rolex Art Festival A celebration of creative exchange
The first visual book full of love and beauty
What resonates with CELINEʼs aesthetic
Selected Articles
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A Mix of Recent Works
In addition to photographs selected from two books published this year, Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji (MACK) and TOKYO OLYMPIA (Nieves), with a mix of his recent commissions for international fashion magazine after the pandemic, this magazine will showcase his latest bodies of work which has shaped him over 41 pages.
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DIARY, DIALOGUE, ESSAY
Conversations with Ari Marcopoulos, Yurie Nagashima, Mariko Asabuki and Cecilie Bahnsen, as well as artists, photobooks and novels that have been on his mind recently, are recounted in Homma’s (false) diary, which begins on MM-DD. Essays by Giovanna Borasi, director of the Canadian Centre for Architecture, researcher Yuzu Murakami and others with each their own interpretation of his works are also included.
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Kiyoji Otsuji Seeing Beyond Things
With a close relationship with the artists of his time, photographer Kiyoji Otsuji has greatly influenced the Japanese photography scene as a mentor to the younger generation. Thanks to the archiving conducted after his death, we are blessed with opportunities to encounter his yet unpublished photographs. Marking his 100th anniversary, Masahiro Kodaira, a photographer with whom he had corresponded in his later years, dives into Otsuji’s singularity while tracing the life of this rare photographer who had just a single solo exhibition in his life time.
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IMA next “OPEN CALL”
IMA next is an online photography competition meant to discover new talents. With a total of 46 competitions, various photographers have served on the jury and selected works appropriate to each theme. Of these, this year’s winners of the “OPEN CALL”, judged by the IMA editorial team, are introduced in the magazine.
Contributors
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