"Clearly, my fellow photographer Michael Kenna and I each see different worlds. This was evident when Michael first showed me a number of his prints of Hokkaido. I felt something that went beyond surprise, a kind of shock of freshness, to the extent in which the method of his approach to Hokkaido differed from mine. The impression I got from many of Michael’s images was of divergence that, at first glance, made me wonder if they weren’t made by a man from another planet who photographed them in an alien land. From a different point of view, the land of Hokkaido as Michael responds to it, with a perspective foreign to us Japanese, appears entirely new. In this sense, the landscapes he has captured suggest the vistas that the aboriginal Ainu people might have seen around them when Hokkaido was their heaven and earth, in the distant past before mainland Japanese settled there to colonize the island."
- Daido Moriyama
Condition
Very Good / Black slipcase has some general signs of wear consisting of some scratches, light bumping to the corners and some white spots along the edges. White linnen spine of the book also has some general wear and some light discolouration. Hardcover consists of thin maple wooden boards, which have some very light wear. Interior of the book in Fine condition.
Author Michael Kenna
Title Hokkaido
Type Hardcover in slipcase
Publication year 2006
Edition 1st Edition
Language English, Japanese
Publisher Nazraeli Press
Size (approx.) 32.5 x 30 cm
