至るところで 心を集めよ 立っていよ by Yoshiko Seino

A collection of works by Japanese photographer Noriko Seino.

Seino worked as an editor in Tokyo, but around 1995 she started working as a photographer. She held solo exhibitions at Comme des Garçons main store in Aoyama and Gallery Koyanagi in Ginza, and gradually became one of the most talked about photographers. This book is her author's second collection of works, published in 2009, and is the book that became her posthumous work when she took her own life in the same year. Images of plants, gardens, construction sites, people, buildings, back roads, and palm trees are relentlessly repeated. All the photographs were taken with a 35mm camera, and all of them have a mysterious sense of distance and air that cannot be simply described as snapshots.

"Photos that only consume 'hope' are no longer possible. The work of finding narrow passages. If photography has any meaning, it is when you can create something like a 'passage'. Something like a "passageway" is opened, and what lies ahead is determined by the viewer. No, I don't really think it's important." In the afterword of this book, Seino writes about photography using the words hope and passage. It is a book that traces the traces of the author, who was a man of words, searching for a way to confront the world through the device of photography.

The title is taken from a late poem by the German poet Paul Zelan.

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Title: Gather Your Hearts Everywhere Stand Up
Artist: Yoshiko Seino
Osiris, 2009
Hardcover, 173 × 259 mm
72 pages
First edition
¥ 12,800 + tax

Condition: Good, bumped on the corner. Aging. Upper right corner crushed, discolored. There are no dents on the paper.

*About the condition of the old book
Mint: Brand new, unopened
Very Good: Very good
Good: General condition for an old book. There are some scratches and stains due to aging.
Acceptable: There are notable tears and stains. For those who want to read once.