Daisuke Yokota, Taratine

Taratine

Daisuke Yokota

Publisher
Session Press
Year
2015
Specifications
Softcover
20.3 x 27.9 cm
160 pages
Edition of 500
Design by Geoff Han, NYC
Essay by Daisuke Yokota
Afterword by Marc Feustel
English translation by Daniel Gonzalez
Japanese translation by Yoshi Shiraishi
Printed by Thomas Bossuyt, die Keure, Belgium

Daisuke Yokota's most personal work, in the tradition of the confessional photographic I-novel. It joins two bodies of work — a 2007 road trip to Tohoku and pictures made in Tokyo in 2014 — sparked by an ancient ginkgo tree in Aomori, the "taratine," worshipped by generations of women for its fertility-enhancing powers. The book weaves animism, childhood memory and devotion to the women in the artist's life, his mother and his girlfriend, into a sensory ode that is as much about sounds and smells as images.

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