(First Edition) Illuminance by Rinko Kawauchi

A collection of works by Japanese photographer Rinko Kawauchi.

Ten years after the simultaneous publication of Utatane, Hanabi, and Hanako, this work was created as a work that sublimates the world of Utatane to even greater heights. "Illuminance" in the title means the psychological quantity of brightness that illuminates a flat surface that humans perceive. Kawauchi sees this as the fundamental theme of her photography, and has compiled the photographs she has taken over the past 15 years into a book. At first glance, it looks like a collection of photographs that summarizes photogenic scenes that sparkle in ``casual everyday life. It is the gaze, and the attitude of putting all kinds of phenomena into the square screen without discrimination. The end comes suddenly, but the lives of the living continue. By delicately weaving together disparate motifs, Kawauchi creates a landscape that condenses the beauty and melancholy of this world in one of her photobooks.

"This very finely crafted monograph will make the name of Rinko Kawauchi known to everyone" - Alec Soth (photographer)

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Title: Illuminance
Artist: Rinko Kawauchi
Foil/Aperture, 2011
Hardcover with obi-band, French fold/Swiss binding
287 x 219 x 28 mm
176 pages
Text in Japanese
First edition

Reading the collection "Illuminance" (Part 1)
https://www.iack.online/pages /illuminance-1