• 鷹野隆大　IN MY ROOM - 蒼穹舎 - 文福
  • 鷹野隆大　IN MY ROOM - 蒼穹舎 - 文福
  • 鷹野隆大　IN MY ROOM - 蒼穹舎 - 文福
  • 鷹野隆大　IN MY ROOM - 蒼穹舎 - 文福
  • 鷹野隆大　IN MY ROOM - 蒼穹舎 - 文福
  • 鷹野隆大　IN MY ROOM - 蒼穹舎 - 文福
  • 鷹野隆大　IN MY ROOM - 蒼穹舎 - 文福
  • 鷹野隆大　IN MY ROOM - 蒼穹舎 - 文福
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鷹野隆大 / TAKANO Ryudai

Ryudai Takano IN MY ROOM

Ryudai Takano IN MY ROOM

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Ryudai Takano's "In my Room" is a photobook compiling a series of photographs of other people's bodies taken in the enclosed space of his own room, and is a representative work known for receiving the 31st Kimura Ihei Award.

The images in this book consist of photographs taken with a 4x5 camera of people the artist invited into his home. While the subject is the male nude, it is characterized by avoiding direct exposure of genitals and constructing the image through framing and segmentation of the body. This presents the body not merely as an object, but as a matter of gaze, distance, and perception. Although the situation is premised on intimacy, emotionality is carefully excluded from the image, emphasizing instead the "unknowability of the other."

For Takano, this work is both an attempt to redefine the nude as an object of beauty and a question of how to visualize relationships with others. The body images generated within an everyday space dismantle gender and sexuality stereotypes while revealing the cognitive framework of photography as a medium. This limited edition book is an important work that sharply presents the relationship between private space and photographic expression.

In 2026, YAMADA Book Publishing, the publishing division of Yamada Shashin Seihan, published a new edition.


[Title] IN MY ROOM
[Publisher] Sokyusha
[Publication Date] March 17, 2005 (First edition limited to 550 copies)
[Page Count] 90 pages
[Size] Approx. 215*295*13mm

[Format] Hardcover
[Language] Japanese, English
[Title Reading] IN MY ROOM
[Author/Editor, etc.] Ryudai Takano/Author, Michitaka Ota/Editor, Koichi Hara/Binding
[Printing] Otsu Printing/Printing and Binding
[ISBN] -
[Condition] Used, with edition number [7] Good to very good
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Ryudai Takano (born 1963)

Born in Fukui Prefecture in 1963. Photographer.

After graduating from Waseda University's Faculty of Political Science and Economics in 1987, he began presenting his work in earnest in the 1990s.

He develops photographic expressions with an intellectual structure centered on themes such as sexuality, the body, and daily life. He received the 31st Kimura Ihei Award in 2006 for his series of male nudes, "In My Room," shot at his home. He also continues to question the relationship between photography and perception through different approaches, such as his "Daily Photos" series, which continuously records everyday snapshots, "Me and," a series of portraits where he stands alongside his subjects, and a series capturing shadows in the city.

In 2010, he formed "Photography Separationism" with Risaku Suzuki, Taiji Matsue, Shinobu Kuraishi, and Minoru Shimizu, engaging in critical practice surrounding photographic expression. In 2025, the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum will host "Ryudai Takano: Kasbaba – To Survive This Daily Life." Since then, he has continued to produce works and hold exhibitions and publications, establishing himself as one of the most important artists in contemporary Japanese photography.

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