Masao Gozu - New York

Masao Gozu
new York

Published by Zen Foto gallery, 2018
Book Size 250 x 175 mm
Pages 152 pages
Binding Hardcover
Language Japanese, English
ISBN 978-4-905453-64-2

This is a special edition hardcover photobook featuring the early works of Masao Gozu. In “Windows”, the series Gozu began shooting shortly after moving to Brooklyn in 1971, Gozu photographed the people in New York's immigrant neighborhoods as they looked out of their apartment windows at a passing parade. The two other series included in the book are also portrayals of life in downtown 1970's New York: in “264 Bowery Street” Gozu repeatedly shot a doorstep and the people using it as a resting stop over several months and even years while the “Harry's Bar ” series shows glass windows of a bar and the guests sitting behind them.

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This is a special edition hardcover photo book featuring Masao Gozu’s early work. In “Windows,” the series began shortly after he moved to Brooklyn in 1971, when he photographed people in New York’s immigrant neighborhoods as they peered out of their apartment windows during a parade. The other two series included in the book are also depictions of life in 1970s downtown New York: in “264 Bowery Street,” Gozu systematically photographed the doorway and the people using it as a rest stop for months and even years, while the “Harry’s Bar” series shows the glass windows of a bar and the patrons inside.