Research Catalog

Title

The restoration will / Mayumi Suzuki.

Author

Suzuki, Mayumi, 1977-

Publication

[Siena] : ceiba editions, 2017.

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Details

Description

110 unnumbered pages (some folded) : all illustrations (some color), portraits; 29 cm +

Summary

"My parents, who owned photo studio, went missing after the 2011 tsunami. Our house was destroyed. It was a place for working, but also for living. I grew up there. After the disaster, I found my father's lens, portfolio, and our family album buried in the mud and the rubble. One day, I tried to take a landscape photo with my father's muddy lens. The image came out dark and blurry, like a view of the deceased. Through taking it, I felt I could connect this world with that world. I felt like I could have a conversation with my parents, though in fact that is impossible. The family snapshots I found were washed white, the images disappearing. The portraits taken by my father were stained, discolored. These scars are similar to the damage seen in my town, similar to my memories which I am slowly losing. I hope to retain my memory and my family history through this book. By arranging these photos, I have attempted to reproduce it."--Artist's website.

Subject

• Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami (Japan : 2011)
• 2011
• Death > Pictorial works
• Families > Japan > Pictorial works
• Photography > Japan
• Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, Japan, 2011
• Artists' books > Specimens
• Artists' books
• Death
• Families
• Photography
• Onagawa-chō (Japan)
• Japan
• Japan > Onagawa-chō
• Japan > Tōhoku Region

Genre/Form

• Photobooks.
• Pictorial works.
• Specimens.

Note

• The Restoration Will is based on the concept and design by Mayumi Suzuki, in collaboration with Yumi Goto and Jan Rosseel, at the Photobook as Object workshop 2016, organized by Reminders Photography Stronhold, Tokyo, Japan, and originally produced in a limited handmade edition of 87. -- Colophon.
• Editorial and design adaption by Eva-Maria Kunz, in collaboration with Mayumi Suzuki. Produced by Sergio Betti, published by ceiba in 2017, in an edition of 450.
• Photobook.
• Book has special hardbound binding with only one side fixed to the book (spine not attached).

Call Number

JQF 18-1388

ISBN

• 9788894196047
• 8894196046

OCLC

1022563820

Author

Suzuki, Mayumi, 1977- photographer.

Title

The restoration will / Mayumi Suzuki.

Publisher

[Siena] : ceiba editions, 2017.

Type of Content

still image

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Chronological Term

2011

Research Call Number

JQF 18-1388