日本新地形攝影大師：柴田敏雄攝影集Toshio Shibata: Japan

 
★日本新地形攝影代表大師：柴田敏雄作品合集
★唯一英文專著，完整記錄大師生涯創作
 
　　柴田敏雄（Toshio Shibata）是日本新地形攝影代表大師，以拍攝大型工程建築的攝影作品著稱。他擅長以作品展現自然與建築衝突的美感，鬼斧神工又優美的構圖、精緻的細節，讓他的作品獨樹一幟。
 
　　柴田敏雄使用長時間曝光技巧，去掉人物、地平線之類的地理參照點，捕捉水壩、橋梁、水庫、道路，與自然環境，例如山坡、河流、森林、田野之間的互動。繪畫一般的構圖充滿線條感，從日常景象中呈現出奇異的抽象畫面，具有鮮明的日本美學特徵。
 
　　這本攝影集由策展人兼藝術史學家Phillip Prodger策畫並撰寫評論，完整記錄日本最負盛名攝影師柴田敏雄的職業生涯，也是同類作品中唯一的英文專著，是柴田敏雄粉絲不可錯過的最佳作品。

Spanning the career of one of Japan’s most revered photographers, this monograph-- the only English-language volume of its kind--features exquisitely detailed full- page images that capture the relationship between human-made structures and the natural world.

Toshio Shibata’s large-format contemporary landscapes are distinguished by their haunting beauty, graceful composition, and meticulous detail.

Using long exposures, and eliminating any references to people, horizons, or identifying geographic reference points, Shibata captures structures such as dams, bridges, reservoirs, and roads as they interact with their natural settings--mountainsides, rivers, forests and fields. The results are highlighted by painterly composition; filled with patterns, lines, and fluid action; and unmistakably Japanese in their aesthetic.

Curated and with commentary by Phillip Prodger, one of the most erudite and critical voices in contemporary photography, this book will appeal both to fans of Shibata’s work as well as an audience that has yet to discover his remarkable oeuvre.

PHILLIP PRODGER has served as head of photographs at the National Portrait Gallery in London, and was the founding curator of photography at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts. He is currently executive director of the firm Curatorial Exhibitions in Los Angeles. His previous books include William Eggleston Portraits, Martin Parr: Only Human, and An Alternative History of Photography, published by Prestel.