HAJIME SAWATARI - TASTE OF HONEY
HAJIME SAWATARI - TASTE OF HONEY
HAJIME SAWATARI - TASTE OF HONEY
HAJIME SAWATARI - TASTE OF HONEY
HAJIME SAWATARI - TASTE OF HONEY
HAJIME SAWATARI - TASTE OF HONEY
HAJIME SAWATARI - TASTE OF HONEY
HAJIME SAWATARI - TASTE OF HONEY

HAJIME SAWATARI - TASTE OF HONEY

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HAJIME SAWATARI
TASTE OF HONEY

Published by IPC, 1986
Book size 44 x 31 cm
Page 96
Hardcover + Slipcase
First edition
Rare book
Condition : used

Published in 1986, this large-format book combines several series by the Japanese photographer Hajime Sawatari. The book mixes portraits – fashionable like snapshots that seem taken from life – with still lifes of fruit. The sequence, subtle but well thought out, naturally takes us from the curve of a buttock to that of a magnificently sensual pear, then from a face to the roundness of a fig.
In his preface, the artist explains the choice of title for his book. He describes the sweetness and the sweetness of the first drop of honey, which for him resembles the first love emotions. The slight bitterness that follows and remains in the mouth is associated with his anxiety about the possible rupture that would break the sweetness of these first emotions. This text (which we find particularly touching) where the photographer reveals his fears, as well as his images and the quality of the book, unite here to form a gently sensual object where the eroticism of the body and food merge.

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Publié en 1986, ce livre grand format associe plusieurs séries du photographe japonais Sawatari. Il mêle des portraits – de mode comme des clichés qui semblent pris sur le vif –  à des natures mortes de fruits. La séquence, subtile mais bien pensée, nous fait tout naturellement passer de la courbe d’une fesse à celle d’une poire magnifiquement sensuelle, puis d’un visage à la rondeur d’une figue.
Dans sa préface, l’artiste explique le choix du titre de son livre. Il y décrit la douceur et le sucré de la première goutte de miel, qui pour lui ressemble aux premiers émois amoureux. La légère amertume qui suit et qui reste en bouche est elle associée à son angoisse de la possible rupture qui viendrait briser la douceur de ces premières émotions. Ce texte (qu’on trouve particulièrement touchant) où le photographe dévoile ses peurs, ainsi que ses images et la qualité du livre, s’unissent ici pour former un objet doucement sensuel où érotisme du corps et de la nourriture se confondent.