AMS by Seiichi Furuya

Published in 1981, Seiichi Furuya's memorable first collection of works.

At the end of April 1980, I accompanied Daido Moriyama, who was visiting Graz's Forum Stadtpark for his three-week solo exhibition, and the two drove to Amsterdam. The city, where young people from all over the world seek freedom and adventure, quickly disturbed, gripped, and overwhelmed him. For three months starting in June, Furuya worked part-time as a waiter at a high-end Japanese restaurant, taking advantage of his free time to take photographs and developed his photographs in the small attic above the restaurant. At first, Furuya was unable to grasp the true nature of the sensation that the city of Amsterdam had brought him, and was in a sort of trance-like state, leaving everything to the camera and blindly continuing to release the shutter. "For a while I couldn't find an answer, but I followed the camera's lead. And after developing the first few photos, I was able to identify the source of my annoyance. After that, I let the camera take over." Instead, I became conscious and focused on shooting.” Furuya says in the text included in this book.

The restaurant where Furuya worked, Toga, closed when he retired. Furuya then returned to Graz and immediately began working on this book.

Limited to 600 copies.

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Title: AMS
Artist: Seiichi Furuya
Edition Camera Austria, 1981
Hardcover, case binding
247 x 247 x 19 mm
89 pages
Text in German and English
First edition of 600 copies