Osamu Kanemura - In-between - 2005

Published by the EU-Japan Fest Japan Committee, it serves as the 12th volume in a collaborative photographic series titled "In-between". The project, structured under the theme "Europe Today," commissioned Japanese photographers to capture the diverse, changing environments across European nations.


The book represents a major milestone in Kanemura's career as his first photo book shot entirely outside of Japan. Known primarily for his dense, chaotic, and heavily layered monochrome depictions of Tokyo, Kanemura famously harbored an "inner resistance" to photographing abroad. He feared that the inherent exoticism of an unfamiliar foreign landscape would make image-taking "too easy" and produce simplistic results.

By overcoming this resistance, Kanemura brought his signature aggressive framing, high-contrast style, and complex compositions to European environments. The resulting images introduce an unexpected vitality, grit, and chaotic energy to Western cityscapes that drastically departs from traditional, more sterile European architectural photography.
Tokyo: EU Japan Fesuto Nihon Iinkai, 2005. First edition. Hardcover. Small oblong octavo. 74pp. Photographic dust jacket with obi band, white spine lettered in purple. Photographic black glossy boards. With a front endpaper map. Illustrated throughout with black & white photos of Germany and Finland, mostly nighttime street scenes, some double-page. Text of afterword in Japanese and English. A book from the "In-Between" series in which Japanese photographers were each commissioned to photograph two countries., EU Japan Fesuto Nihon Iinkai,

Copy in fine condition, including OBI in fine condition.