KEN DOMON
FUKEI
Published by Sara Shoin, 1978
Book size 37 x 26.5 cm
Pages, 118 pages
Hardcover
Language, Japanese
« Chaque fleur a sa propre saison. Chacune connait son moment, et au printemps ce sont bien les fleurs de printemps qui éclosent. c’est en regardant ces fleurs que je peux connaitre chaque saison. »
- Ken Domon
Ken Domon avec ce livre nous montre son rapport aux saisons grace aux fleurs et le sentiment du temps qui passe. On ressent une grande spiritualité dans ses photos.
C'est le premier livre photos de K.Domon sur les paysages.
Ken Domon est l'un des photographes historiques du Japon d'après-guerre. Il a pris des photos d'actualité empreintes de réalisme, des portraits et des instantanés de personnes célèbres et ordinaires, ainsi que des photos de biens culturels tels que des temples et des statues bouddhistes. Son objectif a capturé des moments qui ont révélé des vérités dans l'ère turbulente de Showa. Le musée de la photographie Ken Domon a été construit dans sa ville natale de Sakata en octobre 1983. Il s'agit du premier musée japonais consacré uniquement aux photographies et il est considéré comme le seul musée de la photographie au monde construit pour un particulier. L'ensemble des 70 000 pièces de son œuvre photographique, y compris l'œuvre de sa vie, "A Pilgrimage through Old Temples", "Muroji Temple", "Hiroshima", "The Children in Chikuho", "Bunraku Puppets" et "Features", y sont conservées et montrées au public à intervalles réguliers.
- Texte du Musée Ken Domon
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"Each flower has its own season. Every flower has its own season. Every flower has its own time, and in the spring it is the spring flowers that bloom, and it is by looking at these flowers that I can know each season.
- Ken Domon
Ken Domon with this book shows us his relationship to the seasons through the flowers and the feeling of time passing. We feel a great spirituality in his photos.
It's the first book of photos of K.Domon on the landscapes.
Ken Domon is one of the representative photographers of postwar Japan. He took news photos grounded in realism, 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. Ken Domon Museum of Photography was built in his hometown of Sakata in October 1983 as the first Japanese museum dedicated solely to photographs, and is said to be the only photography museum in the world built for an individual. Here, all 70,000 pieces of his photographic work, including his lifework, “A Pilgrimage through Old Temples,” “Muroji Temple,” “Hiroshima,” “The Children in Chikuho,” “Bunraku Puppets,” and “Features” are preserved and shown to the public in regular succession.
- Museum Ken Domon Statement