- Hardcover: 192 pages
- Publisher: Hatje Cantz; Bilingual edition (1 Dec 2008)
- Language English, German
- ISBN-10: 3775722378
- ISBN-13: 978-3775722377
- Product Dimensions: 35.1 x 29 x 2.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 796,220 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The death of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world. Edgar Allan Poe. The death of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world, wrote Edgar Allan Poe. And one is tempted to be of the same opinion when considering Ophelia, Madame Bovary, or Anna Karenina. This concept is also deeply rooted in Far Eastern culture: Buddhism even recommends daily meditation on one s own death. The Japanese artist Izima Kaoru (*1954 in Kyoto) lets the most beautiful of the beautiful generate ideas about their own impermanence, about their own death, which he then translates into images. Starting with classic and strict landscape photographs, his highly aesthetic images slowly approach the victims of self-inflicted or external violence right through to detailed close-ups of their faces who have experienced death in perfect beauty. Landscapes with a Corpse assembles for the first time all of the photographic epics created by Izima since 1993. Japanese film divas and models, but also European actresses such as Barbara Rudnik or Helena Noguerra, are posed in perpetual beauty in gowns by Prada, Gucci, and Dior. The visual sources range from traditional Japanese Ukiyo-e woodcuts to Pop Art and the results are always characterized by a bewitching melancholic beauty, and sadness.
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Format:Hardcover
This book is beautiful, full of colour and most of the images are large and cover a full page. Each image is beautifully crafted giving the hint of violent death but leaving the view to wonder "just what did happen?"
I think it is important to read the opening chapters about the book and why to was created and the thought process behind Kaoku's work, because, the East has a very different view on death than we do in the West. Of course the main reason for the book is show high fashion from the likes of Miu Miu, Yohji Yamamoto and Prada to name but a few.
If you are looking for some different ideas on shooting fashion then I would recommend this book and I love it.
I think it is important to read the opening chapters about the book and why to was created and the thought process behind Kaoku's work, because, the East has a very different view on death than we do in the West. Of course the main reason for the book is show high fashion from the likes of Miu Miu, Yohji Yamamoto and Prada to name but a few.
If you are looking for some different ideas on shooting fashion then I would recommend this book and I love it.
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2 Oct 2011
Format:Hardcover
Pictures are unbelievable. Juxtaposing beauty and death as in staging fashion models in these death scenes seems to me to be very reflective of Eastern philosophies. The images are haunting, maybe partly because this Japanese way of looking at death is quite different from what I have been used to.
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