Ken Domon
Fukei
Published by Sara Shoin, 1978
Size: 37 x 26.5 cm
118 pages
Hardcover
Languages: Japanese
"Every flower has its own season. Each one has its own moment, and in spring it is indeed the spring flowers that bloom. It is by looking at these flowers that I can know each season."
- Ken Domon
With this book, Ken Domon shows us his relationship with the seasons through flowers and the feeling of time passing. We feel a great spirituality in his photographs.
This is K.Domon's first photo book on landscapes.
Ken Domon is one of the historic photographers of postwar Japan. He took realistic news photographs, portraits and snapshots of famous and ordinary people, as well as photos of cultural assets such as temples and Buddhist statues. His lens captured moments that revealed truths in the turbulent Showa era. The Ken Domon Museum of Photography was built in his hometown of Sakata in October 1983. It is the first Japanese museum dedicated solely to photographs and is considered the only photography museum in the world built for an individual. All 70,000 pieces of his photographic work, including his life's work, "A Pilgrimage through Old Temples," "Muroji Temple," "Hiroshima," "The Children in Chikuho," "Bunraku Puppets," and "Features," are housed there and shown to the public at regular intervals.
- Text from the Ken Domon Museum