Tsukiji Hitoshi
Shashin (Photograph)
Published by Twelve book, 2015
Pages 108 pages
Book size 21 x 29.7 cm
Hardcover
black and white
Photography can do so much. It can awe and inspire by capturing and then immediately deconstructing the reality of cities. By chance, a photographer could produce an outstanding image, with the right measure of passion and intuition, understanding and criticism, destruction and construction, subjectivity and objectivity, and so on. However, it is almost impossible to encounter and capture something better than the first one. My goal is to capture the image that comes next. I try to live a photographic life to be ready to take deliberate and decisive action when the next moment comes. Photographs, whether they are simple or complicated, can heighten the awareness of the viewers through the representation of light and shadow. This power of photography is what stimulates an aesthetic or photographic response, inspires imagination and promotes the free association of ideas that are complementary, triggered by internal or external stimuli. This being said, I would say my photographs are architypes of images. -Hitoshi Tsukiji
Tsukiji's images have a hard-edged sharpness, betraying a predilection toward clearly defined forms and shapes. His style of photography tends toward the naive, but at the same time his work is highly evocative of the 1970s...quite in keeping with the work commonly seen at this time. This style also evokes Tsukiji's ideas of what photography meant to him. The photography has a snapshot feel, suggesting that anything can be a subject of photography. ─ Ivan Vartanian and Ryuichi Kaneko（from Japanese Photobooks of the 1960s and 1970s, Aperture, 2009）
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"Photography can do so much. It can impress and inspire by capturing and then immediately deconstructing the reality of cities. By chance, a photographer could produce an exceptional image, with the right measure of passion and intuition, understanding and criticism, destruction and construction, subjectivity and objectivity, etc. However, it is almost impossible to encounter and capture something better than the first. My goal is to capture the image that comes next. I try to live a photographic life so that I am ready to take deliberate and decisive action when the time comes. Whether simple or complicated, photographs can sensitize the viewer through the representation of light and shadow. This power of photography is what stimulates an aesthetic or photographic response, inspires the imagination, and promotes the free association of complementary ideas, triggered by internal or external stimuli. That being said, I would say that my photographs are architypes of images." - Hitoshi Tsukiji
Tsukiji's images are very sharp, betraying a predilection for clearly defined forms. His style of photography tends toward naivety, but at the same time his work is very evocative of the 1970s...very much in keeping with the work commonly seen at that time. This style also evokes Tsukiji's ideas about what photography meant to him. The photograph has an instantaneous feel, suggesting that anything can be a photographic subject. - Ivan Vartanian and Ryuichi Kaneko (from Japanese Photobooks of the 60s and 70s, Aperture, 2009)
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