Kimio Aoki - Light - 1978

Light

Kimio Aoki
Kyotoshoin/1978/Japanese/270*308*30

Light” is a collection of photographs by Japanese photographer Kimio Aoki. Kimio Aoki was a member of the Osaka Kogei Club, a group of amateur photographers led by Takeji Iwamiya, a photographer who also studied under Seiryu Inoue and Daido Moriyama. He is the author of “Impressive Landscape,” which was introduced in Ryuichi Kaneko's “History of Japanese Photography Books 1956-1986,” and together with fellow Kogei Club member Yasushi Sugino, he dominated the top rankings of the “monthly” photography magazine competitions in the 1960s, earning him the nickname “the three glass men of the monthly competition trolls. They were known as the “Three Grapes of Gekki-no-Torashi. This book is his first book published in 1978, and is a collection of his works mainly taken in the 1970s (including some in the 1950s and 1960s). Aoki's work is as beautiful as an ink painting, as he lyrically expresses his own mental images, preferring cloudy, rainy, or foggy weather to sunny weather, and coma light to daylight. Aoki's work is as beautiful as an ink painting, and some of the motifs overlap with those of Sugino's due to their similar styles, making this collection a fascinating look at the photographer's sensitivity and the depth of monochrome.