Sakiko Nomura - Ango (English edition)

Sakiko Nomura
Ango (English edition)

Published by Bookshop M in 2018
Book size 21.3 x 15 cm
204 pages
Hardcover
English language

“Sakiko Nomura: Ango,” a masterful combination of Sakiko Nomura’s photographs and Ango Sakaguchi’s short story “The War and a Woman,” is now available in French translation.

Sakaguchi's powerful narrative, heavily censored by the American authorities at the time of its release, paints a brutal and unapologetic picture of the overwhelming force of war. Nomura's sensitive and sensual photographs interact with Ango's words to form a vivid and striking new experience, each work—text and photographs—bringing new nuances to the other, enveloping the reader in the dark and shocking world of Ango's story of the end of the war.

"Sakiko Nomura: Ango" is part of a literary project by publisher and graphic designer Satoshi Machiguchi. In the space of a book, photographs by contemporary Japanese artists meet works of Japanese literature to form a new form of expression. After collaborating with Daido Moriyama for the first three books in the series, Machiguchi decided to work with Sakiko Nomura for this fourth issue.