| | TITLE | Rinko Kawauchi: Illuminance | IMPRINT | Aperture | PRICE US | $60.00 CDN $60.00 | ISBN | 9781597111447 TRADE | FORMAT | Clth, 8.5 x 11 in., 352 pgs, 130 color. | CATALOG | SPRING 2013 p. 85 | DISTRIBUTOR | D.A.P. | PUB DATE | 7/31/2011 | STATUS | Active | STOCK | In stock |
| EXHIBITION SCHEDULENew York, The Gallery at Hermès, 05/20/11 |
"Even within the highly charged mode of Kawauchi's work, the photographs in Illuminance combine to create an intense visual experience, one of frequent crescendos, in which we sense that light has come to represent a particular kind of energy for Kawauchi, both in a personal sense, like an inspirational pulse in her life and work, and on a wider scale, as a universal force of connection and interdependence. For if light is bound up with visibility, if light gives material things their form and color, light in Kawauchi's work also acts to atomize them. In many of the photographs in Illuminance, light obscures as much as it reveals; it reflects; penetrates; dematerializes; and renders things invisible. And, in some images, light is all that is left."David Chandler, excerpted from the essay "Weightless Light." "Rinko Kawauchi’s Illuminance (Aperture) could be the year’s most beautiful photo book. Her 12th since 2001, when she published three books simultaneously, it’s culled from 15 years of work and loosely tied to the theme of light. Typically, her subjects are both ordinary and extraordinary: a burning cigarette, a suckling baby, a dead bird, a drop of water on a lily pad, a lunar eclipse. In a sequence of radiant color images that feels at once deliberate and random, she strikes an ideal balance between weight and weightlessness, the concrete and the ephemeral. David Chandler, the book’s elegant essayist, identifies Kawauchi’s “highly personal, insatiably hungry form of photography, both euphoric and startled,” as part of “a new kind of visual communication, a new language...that is diaristic, uninhibited, interpersonal, and emotionally charged.” But he also places her squarely within the Japanese photo-book tradition that gives publications priority over exhibitions. With Illuminance, Kawauchi clarifies what Chandler calls her “spirit of accelerated wonder,” summing up her considerable achievement while leaving it marvelously expansive and open-ended."Vince Aletti, Photograph Magazine, September/October, 2011
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| | | Rinko Kawauchi: IlluminanceText by David Chandler.In 2001, Rinko Kawauchi launched her career with the simultaneous publication of three astonishing photobooks--Utatane, Hanabi and Hanako--firmly establishing herself as one of the most innovative newcomers to contemporary photography, not just in Japan, but across the globe. In the years that followed, she published other notable monographs, including Aila (2004), The Eyes, the Ear (2005) and Semear (2007). And now, ten years after her precipitous entry onto the international stage, Aperture has published Illuminance, the latest volume of Kawauchi's work and the first to be published outside of Japan. Kawauchi's photography has frequently been lauded for its nuanced palette and offhand compositional mastery, as well as its ability to incite wonder via careful attention to tiny gestures and the incidental details of her everyday environment. As Sean O'Hagan, writing in The Guardian in 2006, noted, "there is always some glimmer of hope and humanity, some sense of wonder at work in the rendering of the intimate and fragile." In Illuminance, Kawauchi continues her exploration of the extraordinary in the mundane, drawn to the fundamental cycles of life and the seemingly inadvertent, fractal-like organization of the natural world into formal patterns. Gorgeously produced as a clothbound volume with Japanese binding, this impressive compilation of previously unpublished images--which garnered Kawauchi a nomination for the Deutsche Börse Prize--is proof of her unique sensibility and ongoing appeal to lovers of photography. | Cory Reynolds | Date: 1/1/2013 When Rinko Kawauchi's Illuminance was published by Aperture in 2011 (the first volume of Kawauchi's work to be published outside of Japan), the first printing sold out immediately, garnering rave reviews from photo insiders like Vince Aletti, who wrote, "Rinko Kawauchi’s Illuminance could be the year’s most beautiful photo book. Her 12th since 2001, when she published three books simultaneously, it’s culled from 15 years of work and loosely tied to the theme of light. Typically, her subjects are both ordinary and extraordinary: a burning cigarette, a suckling baby, a dead bird, a drop of water on a lily pad, a lunar eclipse. In a sequence of radiant color images that feels at once deliberate and random, she strikes an ideal balance between weight and weightlessness, the concrete and the ephemeral." Now available again in a second printing, it is ideal material for pondering the impossible beauty of our short time on earth, as we enter into a fresh new year. continue to blog
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| | "Rinko Kawauchi’s Illuminance (Aperture) could be the year’s most beautiful photo book. Her 12th since 2001, when she published three books simultaneously, it’s culled from 15 years of work and loosely tied to the theme of light. Typically, her subjects are both ordinary and extraordinary: a burning cigarette, a suckling baby, a dead bird, a drop of water on a lily pad, a lunar eclipse. In a sequence of radiant color images that feels at once deliberate and random, she strikes an ideal balance between weight and weightlessness, the concrete and the ephemeral. David Chandler, the book’s elegant essayist, identifies Kawauchi’s “highly personal, insatiably hungry form of photography, both euphoric and startled,” as part of “a new kind of visual communication, a new language...that is diaristic, uninhibited, interpersonal, and emotionally charged.” But he also places her squarely within the Japanese photo-book tradition that gives publications priority over exhibitions. With Illuminance, Kawauchi clarifies what Chandler calls her “spirit of accelerated wonder,” summing up her considerable achievement while leaving it marvelously expansive and open-ended."Vince Aletti, Photograph Magazine, September/October, 2011
| "If anything grounds the heady shifts of subject and the disorienting momentum of association in Kawauchi's work, it is this sense of an implicit interconnection between the most banal and most profound things in life, played out across micro- and macrocosmic scales. And the more we become attuned to the deeper cadences of her work, the more light informs and elaborates these connections as they unfold again into something beyond the visible." David Chandler, Professor of Photography, University of Plymouth, UK. | |
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