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      • Dark Rooms
      • Nature & Politics
      • Spirit is a Bone
      • Shelter Island
      • Beyond Maps and Atlases
      • Got to Go
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      • The Home Front
      • Hanezawa Garden
      • A Handful of Dust
      • The Dailies
      • Unnamed Road
      • The Whiteness of the Whale
      • Lago
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        Photographs to electrify you with delight and startle the world
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      • Archipelago
      • Belongs to Joe
      • This Is Where I Live
      • Blossom
      • Songbook
      • I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed. but all I could do was to get drunk again
      • The Last Cosmology
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      • This Place
      • Thomas Struth
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      • Two-Frame Films (2006-2012)
      • For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness
      • El porqué de las naranjas
      • A Perpetual Season
      • Settlement
      • Does Yellow Run Forever?
      • Typology 1979
      • Pandora's Camera
      • Natur
      • Them
      • Frowst
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      • Moonshine
      • Sacrifice Your Body
      • 8 Women
      • Preganziol, 1983
      • An Archeology of Fear and Desire
      • Veramente
      • The Hidden Mother
      • Gasoline
      • American Colour 1962–1965
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      • Field Trip
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      • Almost There
      • Easter and Oak Trees
      • Redheaded Peckerwood
      • A Partial Eclipse
      • Imitation of Christ
      • Between the Shell
      • Casa de Campo
      • Rodeo Drive, 1984
      • The River Winter
      • 1981 & 2011 Hasselblad Award
      • Vanilla Partner
      • Deutschland
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      • NYLPT
      • Another Language
      • Elementary Calculus
      • Le Luxe
      • Mrs. Merryman's Collection
      • LE SILENCE Une fiction
      • People In Trouble Laughing Pushed To The Ground
      • The Dailies
      • Gathered Leaves

      Takashi Homma

      The Narcissistic City

      112 pages | 62 colour illustrations | Paperback with dustjacket and multiple gatefolds | 240 × 315 mm | English | ISBN: 9781910164600 | 2016
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都市にある建築物が捉えた、日本とアメリカの都市の風景。「都市によって都市を撮影する」と本シリーズを形容するホンマタカシが用いたのが、写真の原点とも言える「カメラオブスキュラ」である。その原始的な撮影手法により切り取られたのは、ありのままの風景とは異なる都市に潜む影の群像。独特に重なり合う光と影が映り込んだ都市の姿は、まるでナルキッソスが水に映る自分の姿の美しさに見とれたというギリシャ神話の一節ように、通常のカメラの鮮明さが欠落したからこそ現れる自己陶酔的なイメージをはらんでいる。
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