Sharing a photographer

[eronrauch]

You all remember what I was saying about my [entirely reasonable] but rather odd tendency to like Japanese photographers? Well, while looking for a couple sample images for an upcoming post (about photography) I randomly came across an image titled "Cherry Blossom Roasted Mind" by Osamu Kanemura. Kanemura is a photographer who shoots insanely dense, nearly jumbled images in the streets of Tokyo. The overlapping signs and wires and fleeting shadows of human presence are immensely evocative of both the energy and claustrophobia of modern mega-cities. One of his tricks is to shoot fairly loose, with often radical tilt to his images, but to shoot with a wide lens on a 6x7 cm medium format camera, so there is sharpness and richness to spare (though also graininess, since when is saw these prints in person at Photo LA last year, it was pretty clear he was pushing the large film to a high ISO), even amidst the slurry of data. But all in all, there is something highly poetic, and a bit sad, in his body of work that fascinates me. Also his titles are great. I wonder if I might have to walk down to Ingles & Hennesy and see if he has a book...



("Cherry Blossom Roasted Mind" by Osamu Kanemura)



("Tokyo Swing" by Osamu Kanemura)

More works in a slideshow form:
http://www.cohenamador.com/Kanemura_exhibition1.html