i’ve always been picking up and looking at this endlessly fascinating book in bookstores - now finally bought my own damn copy of it - the concept is simple: photos of tokyo, devoid of 12.6 million people …which makes for an eerie surreal collection of jg ballard-esque images - it’s especially remarkable as there’s no photoshopping involved - my first thought was they must have been created by very long exposures so all the people and cars blur out of existence - but in fact there’s no tricks at all - they were mostly shot on the new year holiday when all city inhabitants go to visit relatives out in the country and tokyo becomes a ghost town - this explains why the book took ten years to compile - the photos are lush: richly detailed, colourful and vast (most spread over double pages) - a justified bestseller - and inevitably instigated a whole slew of similar photography books of urban decay, deserted factories, etc - which is fine, in view of “photography” often being nothing more than a lame pretentious pretext for lame tit’n'ass books (besides other questionable japanese trends for deliberately lame photography books)
books with Tits n ass!!!!…. where?
:D
i also think this book is uber fascinating!! it reminds me of another favorite photographer of mine Andreas Gursky
so how do his other books compare to this one trevor, hmmm? tokyo float ,tokyo blackout?
have you checked them out?
Wow! These photos are amazing. Kind of reminds me of the scenes from the old Dreamcast game Jet Set Radio.
doom for masochists? (no people to shoot!)
Wahahhahaha! That’s a good one.
there’s a Doom I’d play.
anyway, that’s really clever and 4chan worthy meme in the waiting? (if someone hasn’t snatched it already)
so cool (yr creativity etc)