{"product_id":"shibatatoshio_visions-of-japan","title":"Visions of JAPAN SHIBATA Toshio","description":"\u003cp\u003eToshio Shibata's photobook, \"Visions of Japan SHIBATA Toshio,\" is part of a series published in the 1990s, showcasing a collection of works that redefined landscape representation in Japan. Focusing on civil engineering structures such as dams, retaining walls, and roads, it presents landscapes where the boundary between nature and artifice has been reconfigured.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe subjects consistently depict topography influenced by human intervention, yet the portrayal extends beyond mere documentation or critique. Through precise depiction using a large format camera and meticulously controlled framing, the compositions feature straight and curved lines, repetition, and symmetry arranged in a state of tension. The surfaces of concrete and the structures of slopes, while functional in design, ultimately create a highly abstract visual order. Here, nature is not an opposing force but exists as an integral part of a reassembled structure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe landscapes captured in this book quietly reveal the traces of human intervention in the environment, traversing the dichotomy of \"technology\" and \"art.\" Behind the aesthetically arranged compositions lies a latent structure of irreversible alteration over time. Toshio Shibata's photographs offer a perspective that reinterprets landscapes not as objects of appreciation but as the organization of relationships.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Title] Visions of JAPAN SHIBATA Toshio\u003cbr\u003e[Publisher] Korinsha Publishing\u003cbr\u003e[Publication Date] April 27, 1998 (First Edition)\u003cbr\u003e[Page Count] 102 pages\u003cbr\u003e[Size] Approx. 218*210*14mm \/ 650g\u003cbr\u003e[Format] Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e[Language] Japanese\u003cbr\u003e[Title Reading] Vision of Japan Shibata Toshio\u003cbr\u003e[Author\/Editor, etc.] Toshio Shibata\/Author, Shunji Ito\/Supervisor, Hisako Motou\/Editor, Kaoru Kasai\/Art Direction\u003cbr\u003e[Printing] Korinsha\u003cbr\u003e[ISBN] 4771328056\u003cbr\u003e[Condition] Used 【\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e6\u003c\/span\u003e】Good to Fair (Cover: minor tanning, minor scuffs, minor creasing at top edge; Pages: minor tanning on all three sides)\u003cbr\u003e[Accessories] None\u003cbr\u003e[Featured In] -\u003cbr\u003e[Related Exhibitions] -\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eToshio Shibata (1949-)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBorn in Tokyo in 1949. Graduated from the Painting Department, Faculty of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts, and completed his graduate studies there.\u003cbr\u003eIn 1975, he received a scholarship from the Belgian Ministry of Education and enrolled in the Photography Department of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Ghent in Ghent, where he began his full-fledged career in photography. He returned to Japan in 1979.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe gained recognition for his works capturing artificial structures in nature, such as dams, erosion control weirs, and concrete retaining walls across Japan, using a large format camera. Through meticulous monochrome prints and rigorous compositions, he presented the inherent structures and forms within modern Japanese landscapes. In 1992, he received the 17th Ihei Kimura Award for his photobook \"Nihon Tenkei.\" In the same year, he was selected for \"New Photography 8\" at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe continued to exhibit his work both in Japan and internationally, including a solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago in 1997. From the 2000s onwards, he expanded his range of expression by working with color photography. In 2008, he held a large-scale solo exhibition, \"Landscape,\" at the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum. In 2009, he received the Photographic Society of Japan's Artist Award and the Higashikawa Award for Domestic Photographer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis works are held in major museums both in Japan and abroad, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Centre Pompidou, and the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4 data-start=\"463\" data-end=\"516\"\u003e\u0026lt; Related Figures \u0026gt;\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEiji Ina, Taishi Hirokawa, Masaki Nakano\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"しばたとしお｜柴田敏雄 \/ SHIBATA Toshio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44307314311210,"sku":null,"price":8500.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0649\/4280\/0938\/files\/visions-of-japan-shibata-toshio-5860468.jpg?v=1777737133","url":"https:\/\/bunbuku.live\/en\/products\/shibatatoshio_visions-of-japan","provider":"文福","version":"1.0","type":"link"}