A searing journey into the heart of Japanese underground culture
Part travel diary and part love letter to Tokyo and Osaka, French artist Jean-Vincent Simonet's gorgeously produced book In Bloom offers a searing journey into the heart of Japanese underground culture, in which analog images fluidly fuse with collage and montage. Simonet also uses water, chemicals, long exposure and torchlight to transform the surface of his prints, which depict fugitive scenes of sexual abandon, partying and urban nightlife. In Bloom is permeated by a thrilling atmosphere of overload, exuberance and entropy. Body and decor, nature and artifice, poses and emotions collide and merge into the atmosphere of excess that forms the basis of Simonet’s sensibility.
Featured image is reproduced from 'Jean-Vincent Simonet: In Bloom.'
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Sophie Wright
Simonet’s series of mutating, drippy images attempt to capture the life found in the dead of night, before the day begins and the reverie is over.
Featured image is reproduced from French photographer Jean-Vincent Simonet's new photobook, In Bloom—a wordless, super-saturated surprise staff favorite from SPBH Editions and a featured title at our booth at AIPAD 2019. In just 132 pages of trippy, somehow pulsating nocturnal full-bleed images, Simonet makes visceral a certain uninhibited, dreamlike erotic experience of underground urban Japan. A true collector's item. continue to blog
FORMAT: Pbk, 9.5 x 13 in. / 132 pgs / 110 color. LIST PRICE: U.S. $45.00 LIST PRICE: CANADA $62 ISBN: 9781999814458 PUBLISHER: SPBH Editions AVAILABLE: 10/23/2018 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: SDNR40 PUBLISHING STATUS: Out of stock indefinitely AVAILABILITY: Not available TERRITORY: NA ONLY
A searing journey into the heart of Japanese underground culture
Part travel diary and part love letter to Tokyo and Osaka, French artist Jean-Vincent Simonet's gorgeously produced book In Bloom offers a searing journey into the heart of Japanese underground culture, in which analog images fluidly fuse with collage and montage. Simonet also uses water, chemicals, long exposure and torchlight to transform the surface of his prints, which depict fugitive scenes of sexual abandon, partying and urban nightlife. In Bloom is permeated by a thrilling atmosphere of overload, exuberance and entropy. Body and decor, nature and artifice, poses and emotions collide and merge into the atmosphere of excess that forms the basis of Simonet’s sensibility.
