UTSUSHIE — Katsuhisa Ogawa, 1991

A meditative exploration of form, texture and atmosphere, Utsushie by Katsuhisa Ogawa is a quietly powerful photobook published at the start of the 1990s, offering a personal and abstracted view of the natural world. With its striking cover of birch trunks rendered in monochrome, the book signals its own material language: repetition, rhythm, and the fragment as portal. Ogawa, a Japanese photographer born in 1945, worked largely in editorial and studio contexts before developing a distinctive visual idiom rooted in formal restraint and poetic minimalism.

Technical Sheet
Title: UTSUSHIE
Artist / Author: Katsuhisa Ogawa
Date: 1991
Technique / Printing Method: Offset
Medium / Materials: Hardcover with dust jacket
Dimensions: approx. 25 × 26
Language: repetition, rhythm, and the fragment as portal. Ogawa, a Japanese photographer born in 1945, worked largely in editorial and studio contexts before developing a distinctive visual idiom rooted in formal restraint and poetic minimalism.
Publisher: Rikuyosha Publishing
ISBN: 4897371295
Condition: Very good