Japan Photos 2023
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In pics 4, or 5/7, can you maybe give some info about what other peaks/mtns are there that we're looking at?
Or maybe a google pin for location and then the general direction that it's taken? (so someone can figure it out on their own)
Or maybe a google pin for location and then the general direction that it's taken? (so someone can figure it out on their own)
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I am pretty sure that #5 and #7 show Yamanakako.
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Nikkei Asia introduced the new book of photographer Hans Sautter:
Great imagery, but I am unsure whether others can access the page:
asia.nikkei.com
Great imagery, but I am unsure whether others can access the page:
Books: Photographer captures kaleidoscopic Japan
Hans Sautter and a range of essayists focus on rarely seen aspects of society
asia.nikkei.com
Nice pictures, but I can see them because I rarely look at that site, and so have a free view or few before needing to register.
But as great as the photography is, about half of what's in that article, and the various commentaries seem to point at outliers ("look at how unusual all these aspects of japan are"). The focus is on things that are remarkable for being the most extreme aspect of what they represent. I mean, the one city shot looks normal, but then it's captioned "Sautter's cities are characterized by concrete and the ideology of the construction state." So the pic looks like it could be tokyo, okay, but is the reader supposed to conclude that a lot of japan is like that? And what is 'the ideology of the construction state'? I generally think I'm on the educated side, but that seems to zip right by me. (Probably some kind of post-structural deconstructionist thinking?)
I suppose the idea is that someone will look at the pix and read the text and get a sense of what is normal in japan.
Personal opinion, but I don't think that's a reasonable point of view.
And I guess it's not all tokyo and strange doll exhibitions, the rest of the country is yamabushi organized in columns in the hills, fire-walking, and supposedly nostalgic guys playing soldier (with US insignia?).
The women on the beach do seem real, as is the setsubun pic, and of course there has to be a mt fuji pic, too.
But as great as the photography is, about half of what's in that article, and the various commentaries seem to point at outliers ("look at how unusual all these aspects of japan are"). The focus is on things that are remarkable for being the most extreme aspect of what they represent. I mean, the one city shot looks normal, but then it's captioned "Sautter's cities are characterized by concrete and the ideology of the construction state." So the pic looks like it could be tokyo, okay, but is the reader supposed to conclude that a lot of japan is like that? And what is 'the ideology of the construction state'? I generally think I'm on the educated side, but that seems to zip right by me. (Probably some kind of post-structural deconstructionist thinking?)
I suppose the idea is that someone will look at the pix and read the text and get a sense of what is normal in japan.
Personal opinion, but I don't think that's a reasonable point of view.
And I guess it's not all tokyo and strange doll exhibitions, the rest of the country is yamabushi organized in columns in the hills, fire-walking, and supposedly nostalgic guys playing soldier (with US insignia?).
The women on the beach do seem real, as is the setsubun pic, and of course there has to be a mt fuji pic, too.
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I don't think the author/photographer intended to enlighten the reader by depicting the "real" or "normal" Japan but to show the country's beauty through exceptional - and, as you said, remarkable - perspectives. Sautter does not aim to educate but to visually chart the map of traditional and modern Japan. The pictures in the article are genuinely outstanding, and I wish I could take a closer look at the rest of his work (his four-kilo book is available at Amazon Japan for ~16,000 JPY).
And I guess it's not too far off to call Japan a construction state:
Constructing the Construction State: Cement and Postwar Japan
Abstract This paper inquires into the revival of the cement industry in postwar Japan. The Allied Occupation did not immediately undertake comprehensive plans to rebuild the country’s infrastructure
apjjf.org
Right, I should have considered that the article and those pix are just a glimpse--chosen by the author of the article--and not representative of what's in Sautter's book. My apologies for too quickly jumping to conclusions.
This morning--we got some rain, which makes the greens look nice. And I actually backed off the color in these, it was too strong (iphone). Location is 大乗寺 here, first pic is just another version of similar ones I've posted before.
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Thanks for sharing! A great motif and a lovely location.
By the way, Sautter's website has a subsection on Japan:
HANS SAUTTER PHOTOGRAPHY » JAPAN
HANS SAUTTER -- commercial photographer and photojournalist based Tokyo, Japan specializing in corporate photography, business portraits, architecture, traditional Japanese culture, Asian documentary photos.
hans-sautter.com
Different direction today, fewer mosquites.
I like the flower under the eggplant crop:
Kibi, typically mixed and cooked with rice:
phone play, portrait mode:
and, gaming the lighting:
Technically, stuff on the ground is called litter:
different kind of peps:
I like the flower under the eggplant crop:
Kibi, typically mixed and cooked with rice:
phone play, portrait mode:
and, gaming the lighting:
Technically, stuff on the ground is called litter:
different kind of peps:
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