4to, softcover, SIGNED, FIRST EDITION, artist proof
NF
First signed and numbered edition, seld published by the author in 2013
and sold out in a very short time. Yusuke Yamatani's first book. This
copy is an signed artist proof (A.P.) copy.
"Sometimes
I feel like I'm lost between the ages. I spent my teenage and early
adulthood in the 2000s, but most of the things I enjoyed were from the
past. That's why with photography I want to find something that
transcends space, and I'm drawn to things that have an intensity that
transgresses time. When I was 22, I left the punk band I was a part of,
and a simple impulse led me to photography. To find out what it meant to
me photography I've traveled all over Japan and abroad, but I wasn't
comfortable with just pressing the shutter at whatever news came my way.
In
2010 I decided I wanted to get back into the world of live music
venues, camera in hand. I felt that even those who gathered in these
places drifted between the past and the present. I wanted to clarify
where I came from. I decided to move to an old friend in Osaka where I
barely knew anyone, as opposed to Tokyo where I had a lot of
acquaintances. We were on the street every night and weekends at live
music venues. I hung out with new friends until morning, but there was
never a night where I felt truly accomplished and I constantly felt
frustrating incompleteness. I had hoped, simplistically, to encounter
something. But nothing like this has ever appeared. This is "Tsugi no yoru e"." (Yusuke Yamatani)