K-NARF & SHOKO - HATARAKIMONO PROJECT
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K-NARF & SHOKO
HATARAKIMONO PROJECT
Published by Dilecta, 2018
Book size 21 x 26 cm
Pages 192
Language French, English and Japanese
Continuing his artistic work of transforming the Super-Ordinary of our time into an Extra-Ordinary Visual archive for the future, French artist K-NARF launched the HATARAKIMONO PROJECT in September 2016 in Tokyo.
Consisting of more than a hundred portraits of Japanese workers, this project documents and preserves one of the least publicized pillars of Japanese culture before it completely disappears from our modern society: respect for all types of jobs as well as the people who perform them.
It took K-NARF more than a year to create this unprecedented collection of portraits; it also required the organization of thirty-four photo shoots using a portable studio to photograph the HATARAKIMONO one by one in their workplace. Each portrait has the particularity of being presented in a triptych and of being entirely handmade in the form of original TAPE-O-GRAPHIQUES prints, a neo-vintage photographic development process developed by K-NARF about ten years ago.
For this title, there is the top edition "HATARAKIMONO PROJECT / TOROSHU-BOX", composed of the book dedicated to the HATARAKIMONO PROJECT, a handmade plexiglass box, a stamp and the TOROSHU-BOX enclosing three photos of the series in FILM-O -TAPES.
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In the continuity of his artistic work which consists of transforming the Super-Ordinary of our time into an Extra-Ordinary Visual archive for the future, the French artist K-NARF launched in September 2016 in Tokyo, the HATARAKIMONO PROJECT.
Consisting of over a hundred portraits of Japanese workers, this project documents and preserves one of the least publicized pillars of Japanese culture before it completely disappears from our modern society: respect for all types of professions as well as for the people who practice them.
It took K-NARF over a year to create this unprecedented collection of portraits; it also required organizing thirty-four photo shoots using a portable studio to photograph the HATARAKIMONO one by one at their workplace. Each portrait has the particularity of being presented in a triptych and of being made entirely by hand in the form of original TAPE-O-GRAPHIQUES prints, a neo-vintage photographic development process developed by K-NARF about ten years ago.
For this title, there is the deluxe edition "HATARAKIMONO PROJECT / TOROSHU-BOX", consisting of the book dedicated to the HATARAKIMONO PROJECT, a hand-made plexiglass box, a stamp and the TOROSHU-BOX enclosing three photos from the series in FILM-O-TAPES.
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