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The selection includes nearly 20 studios—from traditional textile makers like Mantas Ezcaray and Teixits Vicens to contemporary fabricators like Apparatu and Seco Goldsmith—each of whom preserve a distinct relationship to material, locality, and time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"817\" data-end=\"1449\"\u003eThe cover image alone—fuchsia-dyed yarn drying against a peeling wall—summons the synesthetic core of this work: texture, color, repetition, patience. The book’s texts by Txema Ybarra and photographs by Pablo Zamora resist nostalgia, instead offering present-tense immersion in living workshops where function and beauty meet in modest forms. What unites these diverse artisans is a care for process, and an insistence that slowness, tradition and idiosyncrasy remain vital in a world of mechanized sameness. 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Through extensive oral histories and archival excavation, Koolhaas and Obrist reconstruct the story of Metabolism — the only major avant-garde movement in architecture to emerge outside the West. It proposed buildings that could grow like organisms, cities that could float, and urbanism as a living system — an optimistic architectural response to the devastation of war and the demands of modern life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"760\" data-end=\"1285\"\u003eMore than a survey, \u003cem data-start=\"780\" data-end=\"795\"\u003eProject Japan\u003c\/em\u003e is an investigative archive. Through interviews with key figures like Kiyonori Kikutake and Kisho Kurokawa, as well as planners, bureaucrats, and critics, the book maps the complex interplay between political utopia, national identity, and architectural form. Designed with the visual density of an AMO project, it includes hundreds of photographs, plans, media clippings, and previously unseen materials. 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Across Angola, from the 1930s to the 1970s, dozens of cinemas were constructed — not just as functional buildings, but as monumental expressions of futurism, utopia, and modernity in concrete. Fernandes’ photographs, taken in 2013, offer a last look at these structures, many of which now stand in ruins, repurposed or abandoned, yet still radiating their former symbolism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"1464\" data-start=\"781\"\u003eThe buildings themselves — with sweeping parabolic forms, brutalist facades, and theatrical entrances — reflect the layered legacy of colonial ambition, African urban identity, and cinematic escape. Each photograph captures more than architecture: it captures a scene of cultural memory, where projection booths, ticket counters, and open-air balconies remain haunted by the communal act of watching. Hurst’s accompanying research contextualises the cinemas within Angola’s political and social shifts, tracing their roles in both colonial propaganda and post-independence imagination. 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Published in December 2023 by Kinkan Publishing, the book merges street photography, performance, and blurred dream states into a dark psychogeography of Tokyo’s shadows.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"448\" data-end=\"925\"\u003eUchibori moves through the city with an almost mediumistic instinct, capturing anonymous figures, mirror reflections, distorted gestures, and ghostlike doubles that seem to hover between the living and the dead. The work is not spectral in the gothic sense—it’s gritty, smeared, and corporeal, as if the ghosts are burned directly into the paper. Printed in high-contrast black and white with strong editorial direction, the book balances visual intensity with eerie restraint.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"927\" data-end=\"1403\"\u003eWhile the title nods playfully to pop culture, Uchibori’s project is closer to Daido Moriyama by way of Georges Bataille—obsessed with the invisible, the ephemeral, and the socially repressed. 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Published in 2000 by Little More, the book presents photographs taken over more than a decade, showing Tokyo’s most iconic locations—Shibuya, Ginza, Shinjuku—devoid of people. Each image is a paradox: still and uncanny, familiar yet otherworldly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"537\" data-end=\"936\"\u003eTo achieve these scenes, Nakano waited patiently for fleeting instants during holidays, early mornings, and rare weather events when human presence vanished. The result is not a dystopian Tokyo, but a poetic one: signage still glows, traffic lights still blink, yet the city appears paused, waiting. It’s a photographic feat of both patience and precision—deeply conceptual, yet emotionally charged.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"938\" data-end=\"1334\"\u003eWhat makes \u003cem data-start=\"949\" data-end=\"963\"\u003eTokyo Nobody\u003c\/em\u003e distinct is its sense of time suspended. Unlike post-apocalyptic imagery, these photographs suggest Tokyo is just around the corner, alive but off-stage. The book resonates even more now, post-2020, when global cities experienced sudden stillness. 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