{"title":"Romain Slocombe","description":"\u003cp\u003eRomain Slocombe (born 1953) is a French artist, photographer, filmmaker and novelist whose practice has moved between Paris and Tokyo since the 1980s. His photography of Tokyo street life, youth culture and urban space appeared in numerous publications and exhibitions from the 1990s onward, including contributions to \u003cem\u003eTokyo Vertigo\u003c\/em\u003e (Creation Books, 2001). He is also known for his painted and drawn work and for fiction engaging with Japanese culture, crime and transgression.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"steven-barber-tokyo-vertigo-creation-books-2001","title":"STEVEN BARBER — Tokyo Vertigo, Nobuyoshi Araki, Eikoh Hosoe, Romain Slocombe, Creation Books, 2001","description":"\u003cp\u003eCreation Books, London, 2001. Photographs by Nobuyoshi Araki, Eikoh Hosoe and Romain Slocombe. Softcover with photographic wrappers; black-and-white and colour photography throughout. 21 × 28 cm, 160 pages.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTokyo, caught at the moment the city begins to look less like a place than an image-generating system.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished in 2001, \u003cem\u003eTokyo Vertigo\u003c\/em\u003e arrives with one foot in twentieth-century photographic Tokyo and the other already inside the accelerated visual culture that would define the next one. Steven Barber moves through Shinjuku, the Imperial Palace, arcades, railway stations, streets and nightlife, but the city he describes is never presented as a stable geography. Screens, surveillance, advertisements, crowds, transport systems and bodies continually break it apart and assemble it again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book builds its own genealogy backwards: the devastation of the 1923 earthquake, the firebombing of 1945, then the political and cultural upheavals of the late 1960s. By 2001, those histories have been covered by another city—electronic, commercial, densely mediated and seemingly capable of replacing itself overnight.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe photographs make that instability physical. Eikoh Hosoe, whose radical collaborations and psychologically charged photography helped remake the Japanese image in the post-war period, sits beside Nobuyoshi Araki, for whom Tokyo became an inexhaustible theatre of intimacy, sex, death and everyday life. Romain Slocombe extends the sequence into a younger, street-level city. Three photographic positions; one urban apparatus.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBarber is named as author. Araki, Hosoe and Slocombe supply images. Tokyo supplies almost everything else. Authorship is distributed across streets, cameras, historical events, advertisements, bodies and publishing. The book does not simply represent Tokyo; it processes Tokyo through another system and returns it as an object.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIts design understands this. Full-bleed photographs collide with dense columns of text, oversized typography and vertical Japanese characters. Images cross the gutter. Bodies are caught moving through ticket barriers, taxis, crossings and illuminated streets. Reading begins to resemble navigating: interruption, compression, acceleration, another image.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA travel book, technically. But also a record of a city becoming increasingly difficult to separate from its own representations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCondition: very good. Light rubbing and handling to covers; minor edge and corner wear consistent with age.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSecurely packed; tracked UK and international shipping available.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Creation Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54274321875282,"sku":null,"price":85.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Araki_Nobuyoshi.Hosoe_Eikoh.Slocombe_Romain.TokyoVertigo_authorBarber_Steven.2001.jpg?v=1786861056"}],"url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/collections\/romain-slocombe.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}