Illuminance The Tenth Anniversary Edition Rinko Kawauchi

Introduction (from the publisher)
After 10 years since the first edition of 2011, Illuminance, one of Kawauchi’s masterpieces, will be revived as the 10th anniversary edition.”Illuminance” is a work series that faces the proposition of photography of light, as it has the meaning of “illuminance”.Light and darkness in this world, and life and death.These fragments that Rinko Kawauchi, who contain beauty and sadness at the same time, exceeds time and place, and appeals to us what is universal.Open the new door of this world we are looking at, albeit and modest.

The first edition configuration is reproduced as it is, and while following the original design, Hans Glemen, the Dutch art director, renews the binding, and can fully enjoy the world view.The photographer Alec Sos praised the film as “this very elaborate monograph will all know Rinko Kawauchi’s name.”In this book, in addition to the reorganization of text by David Chandler, a new philosopher Masatake Shinohara and Leslie A. Martin, a creative director of Aperture, have been added.This resale gives a new context and viewpoint to Kawauchi’s work, and readers will be able to encounter poetic and imaginative sensibilities again.