SAKIKO NOMURA
ANGO (ENGLISH EDITION)
Published by Bookshop M in 2018
Book size 21.3 x 15 cm
204 pages
Hardcover
Language English
“Sakiko Nomura: Ango”, a masterful combination of photographs by Sakiko Nomura and the story “The War and a Woman” by Ango Sakaguchi, is now available in French translation.
Sakaguchi's powerful story, heavily censored by the American authorities at the time of its release, describes a brutal and remorseless image of the crushing force that is war. Nomura's sensitive, sensual photographs interact with Ango's words and form a lively, arresting new experience, with each work – text and photographs – drawing out new nuances in each other, enwrapping the reader in the dark and shocking world of Ango's end-of-war story.
“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 with works of Japanese literature to form a new kind of expression. After collaborating with Daido Moriyama for the first three entries in the series, Machiguchi decided to work with Sakiko Nomura for this fourth issue
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“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 that is war. Nomura’s sensitive and sensual photographs interact with Ango’s words to form a vivid and gripping new experience, each work – text and photographs – adding 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.