{"product_id":"aka-ana-antoine-d-agata-2017","title":"赤穴 (Aka Ana) — Antoine d'Agata","description":"\u003cp data-end=\"397\" data-start=\"79\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"240\" data-start=\"206\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-end=\"240\" data-start=\"206\"\u003e赤穴 (Aka Ana) — Antoine d'Agata\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"634\" data-start=\"242\"\u003eThis photobook by French photographer Antoine d’Agata, \u003cem data-end=\"306\" data-start=\"297\"\u003eAka Ana\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003cem data-end=\"318\" data-start=\"308\"\u003eRed Hole\u003c\/em\u003e), published in 2017 by Akaaka Art Publishing, is part of the Darwin Bookshop because it enters the erotic and existential void with unrelenting intensity. Shot in Japan over years of immersion in Tokyo’s underworld, the book documents not a place but a descent—into sex, fever, narcotics, and photographic collapse.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"1124\" data-start=\"636\"\u003eD’Agata's work in \u003cem data-end=\"663\" data-start=\"654\"\u003eAka Ana\u003c\/em\u003e fuses diaristic self-representation with performative and often collaborative acts of intimacy. Bodies blur, dissolve, burn under red light. The photographs are grainy, saturated, and immersive, often unreadable in a conventional sense—yet entirely legible in their physical and emotional charge. The cover itself is a veil: a naked figure partly obscured, with the title’s two kanji—赤 (red) and 穴 (hole)—cut directly into the surface like wounds or apertures.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"1535\" data-start=\"1126\"\u003eThis Japanese edition stands out for its production: heavy matte paper, rich inks, and the precise violence of the die-cut jacket. Signed by d’Agata in Arles, the book carries the trace of one of contemporary photography’s most transgressive presences. At Darwin, \u003cem data-end=\"1399\" data-start=\"1390\"\u003eAka Ana\u003c\/em\u003e is held as a core work in the photobook canon of embodied experience and radical exposure—where sex is no longer subject but condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"1556\" data-start=\"1537\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-end=\"1556\" data-start=\"1537\"\u003eTechnical Sheet\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"1955\" data-start=\"1558\"\u003eTitle: 赤穴 (Aka Ana)\u003cbr data-end=\"1580\" data-start=\"1577\"\u003eArtist \/ Author: Antoine d’Agata\u003cbr data-end=\"1615\" data-start=\"1612\"\u003eDate: 2017\u003cbr data-end=\"1628\" data-start=\"1625\"\u003eTechnique \/ Printing Method: Offset printing, die-cut cover\u003cbr data-end=\"1690\" data-start=\"1687\"\u003eMedium \/ Materials: Hardcover with printed dust jacket\u003cbr data-end=\"1747\" data-start=\"1744\"\u003eDimensions: approx. 22 × 28 cm\u003cbr data-end=\"1780\" data-start=\"1777\"\u003eLanguage: Japanese, English, French\u003cbr data-end=\"1818\" data-start=\"1815\"\u003ePages: Unpaginated\u003cbr data-end=\"1839\" data-start=\"1836\"\u003ePublisher \/ Editor: Akaaka Art Publishing\u003cbr data-end=\"1883\" data-start=\"1880\"\u003eISBN: 978-4-86541-079-0\u003cbr data-end=\"1909\" data-start=\"1906\"\u003eSigned: Yes (signed in Arles)\u003cbr data-end=\"1941\" data-start=\"1938\"\u003eCondition: MINT\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DaRWIN","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51777089831250,"sku":null,"price":250.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0999\/7058\/0818\/files\/MAISONSCLOSES_90e2f80b-f9c0-4c85-b11a-ebfc8a1873f9.jpg?v=1768063361","url":"https:\/\/thedarwin.es\/products\/aka-ana-antoine-d-agata-2017","provider":"DaRWIN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}