Japanese photographer Seiichi Furuya's best-known works have been his heart-rending exploration of his relationship with his wife, Christine, who after years of battling mental illness, leapt from their ninth-floor apartment in 1985, leaving him and their child. Over the intervening 25 years, Furuya has published several books including formal portraits of Christine and, even harder to take, everyday-life snapshots that are almost luminescent in their ordinariness. This deeply personal photo essay, the last of Furuya's Memoires compositions, covers the Furuya family's everyday life while living in the former East German Republic during the time of two ''falls''--the end of the East German government system, and the other ''fall'' that ended a family. Includes an essay by the late East German writer and film director, Einar Schleef.

Seiichi Furuya: Memoires, 1984-1987 (English, German and Japanese Edition)

Arts & Photography

Seiichi Furuya

Einar Schleef

Photography & Video

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The magic of photography is its unique power to capture a moment in the past to be viewed in the present, to capture a subject suspended between life and death. This evocative, beautifully written catalog from Japan's Izu Photo Museum documents an inspired exhibition that looks into photography's mystical way of suspending time--with an innovative mix of photos from Japan and the West. Even with the relatively recent inclusion of vernacular photos in ''serious'' photography collections, the study of the art form has remained almost entirely Euro-centric. Yet in Suspending Time, curator Geoffrey Batchen (a professor at City University New York) opens the door to using Japanese vernacular photos--and what a treasure-trove he's found! Among the sections is one of memorial ''cabinet cards'' and funerary photos, from Mexico, France, the United States and Japan. A delightful collection of snapshots shows the shadow of the photographer; ''group portraits in which both subject and object are figured in eternal union,'' writes Batchen. He includes photos by professionals Lee Friedlander and Daido Moriyama to make his point. With over 100 beautiful plates of cabinet cards, Daguerreotypes, photography jewelry, tintypes, Japanese ambrotypes, and Mexican sculptures. Includes essays by Batchen, Yoshiaki Kai and Masashi Kohara. In English and Japanese.

Suspending Time: Life - Photography - Death (English and Japanese Edition)

Geoffrey Batchen

Yoshiaki Kai

Masashi Kohara

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