The rest of what's in front of me

The first photobook by Jin Ohashi. Starting with his father's attempted suicide, this book captures the time surrounding his family and their everyday lives.

This book contains not only shocking events but also fragments of life that continue before and after them. The light in the house, bodies, expressions, gazes, silence. Without excessive explanation or dramatization, by continuously observing what is in front of one's eyes, the pain and the feel of life deep within daily existence emerge.

The title "Menomae no Tsuzuki" (What Continues Before Our Eyes) also resonates with the phrase, "We are in what continues before our eyes, as long as we live, until we die." Time continues even after events, and people live on while remaining in that flow. Ohashi's photographs strongly and quietly gaze at this continuing time.

Art direction by MATCH&Co. Including the meticulous book design by Satoshi Machiguchi and the printing by Toppan Printing, the photobook has a high density. This is Jin Ohashi's first work, published in 1999, after receiving the 8th Canon New Cosmos of Photography Excellence Award in 1992. It is a book that confronts family, body, memory, and the boundary between life and death.

[Title] Menomae no Tsuzuki
[Publisher] Seigensha
[Publication Date] August 10, 1999 (First Edition)
[Number of Pages] 208 pages
[Size] Approx. 257 x 185 x 19mm / 928g
[Format] Hardcover
[Language] Japanese, partly English
[Title Reading] MENOMAENO TSUZUKI
[Author/Editor, etc.] Jin Ohashi/Author, MATCH&Co./Art Direction, Satoshi Machiguchi/Art Direction, Hiroyuki Koshu/Printing Direction, Hiroshi Yoshida/Printing, Tomoyuki Osawa/Cooperation, Hideki Yasuda/Publisher
[Printing] Toppan Printing/Printing & Binding
[ISBN] 9784916094278
[Condition] Used【5】Fair (Cover: slight stains, Body: slight stains on endpapers, slight tanning on top edge)
[Accessories] Cover, Obi
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Jin Ohashi (b. 1972)

Born in Sagamihara City, Kanagawa Prefecture. Photographer.

In 1992, he received the Excellence Award selected by Nobuyoshi Araki at the 8th Canon New Cosmos of Photography. In 1999, he published his first photobook, "Menomae no Tsuzuki," from Seigensha.

Subsequently, he released "Ima" (2005), which documented 10 pregnant women up to childbirth, and "Soko ni Suwarou to Omou" (2012), which faced 300 men and women in their spaces. He confronts themes such as family, body, sexuality, and life and death with a strong sense of distance and a sustained gaze.

His major works include "Menomae no Tsuzuki," "Ima," and "Soko ni Suwarou to Omou."

His major awards include the 8th Canon New Cosmos of Photography Excellence Award (selected by Nobuyoshi Araki, 1992).

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