{"product_id":"utsushie-katsuhisa-ogawa-1991","title":"UTSUSHIE — Katsuhisa Ogawa, 1991","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"101\" data-end=\"663\"\u003eA meditative exploration of form, texture and atmosphere, \u003cem data-start=\"159\" data-end=\"169\"\u003eUtsushie\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"665\" data-end=\"1079\"\u003eInside, the photographs hover between documentary and abstraction, isolating surfaces — trees, landscapes, textures — into a near-cinematic stillness. Unlike Moriyama's visual aggression or Fukase’s emotional density, Ogawa's compositions are almost silent, closer to the meditative tradition of ink painting or wabi-sabi aesthetics. There’s a deep, slow attention at work here — images not about “what” but “how.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1081\" data-end=\"1332\"\u003eDesigned with minimal text and careful sequencing, \u003cem data-start=\"1132\" data-end=\"1142\"\u003eUtsushie\u003c\/em\u003e feels like a deliberate act of seeing. Its rarity outside Japan adds to its resonance: a quiet masterwork in the lineage of Japanese photobooks that reward close looking and long intervals.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1334\" data-end=\"1648\"\u003eTechnical Sheet\u003cbr data-start=\"1349\" data-end=\"1352\"\u003eTitle: UTSUSHIE\u003cbr data-start=\"1367\" data-end=\"1370\"\u003eArtist \/ Author: Katsuhisa Ogawa\u003cbr data-start=\"1402\" data-end=\"1405\"\u003eDate: 1991\u003cbr data-start=\"1415\" data-end=\"1418\"\u003eTechnique \/ Printing Method: Offset\u003cbr data-start=\"1453\" data-end=\"1456\"\u003eMedium \/ Materials: Hardcover with dust jacket\u003cbr data-start=\"1502\" data-end=\"1505\" data-is-only-node=\"\"\u003eDimensions (cm): approx. 25 × 26\u003cbr data-start=\"1537\" data-end=\"1540\"\u003eLanguage: Japanese\u003cbr data-start=\"1558\" data-end=\"1561\"\u003ePublisher \/ Editor: Rikuyosha Publishing\u003cbr data-start=\"1601\" data-end=\"1604\"\u003eISBN: 4-89737-129-5\u003cbr data-start=\"1623\" data-end=\"1626\"\u003eCondition: Very good\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DaRWIN","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52607813484882,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0999\/7058\/0818\/files\/TODWEBB_copy_2_35805c91-27a1-4ba2-b7db-537ac23e9ee4.jpg?v=1769958620","url":"https:\/\/thedarwin.es\/products\/utsushie-katsuhisa-ogawa-1991","provider":"DaRWIN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}