{"title":"Takashi Homma","description":"\u003cp\u003eTakashi Homma (b. 1962) is a Japanese photographer whose work examines the surfaces and systems of contemporary urban and suburban life, particularly in Japan. His practice is characterised by a deliberately detached, documentary distance — images that observe rather than interpret, allowing structure, repetition and the logic of built environments to become visible. His 1998 book \u003cem\u003eTokyo Suburbia\u003c\/em\u003e established him as a central figure in the reassessment of postwar Japanese urban development, presenting the sprawling residential peripheries of Tokyo as subjects of sustained attention rather than photographic afterthought. He has exhibited internationally and contributed to major surveys of Japanese photography, with work held in significant institutional collections.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"takashi-homma-aero-photo-gallery-interform-amus-arts-press-2000","title":"TAKASHI HOMMA, Aero-Photo, Gallery Interform \/ Amus Arts Press, 2000","description":"\u003cp\u003eA compact aerial survey of Tokyo and Berlin photographed from above and published as the third title in Gallery Interform's Postcard Gallery series. Apartment blocks, railways, roads, parks and unfinished edges of the city are flattened into pattern and infrastructure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe timing is particularly good. \u003cem\u003eAero-Photo\u003c\/em\u003e followed soon after Homma's \u003cem\u003eTokyo Suburbia\u003c\/em\u003e, the project that established his detached view of Tokyo's peripheral landscapes. Here the camera changes altitude. The suburb is no longer encountered from inside it; it is looked down upon as a system.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut the format complicates that distance. The book consists of 28 postcards, turning Homma's aerial photographs into images designed to be removed, written on, posted and dispersed. The city is first converted into photograph, then into a portable unit of circulation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe city becomes image. The image becomes postcard. The book is designed to come apart.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat tension between detached observation and physical distribution makes \u003cem\u003eAero-Photo\u003c\/em\u003e more than a small photobook. A view produced from extreme distance ends up as something intended to travel hand to hand.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGallery Interform \/ Amus Arts Press, Osaka, 2000. Postcard Gallery 003. 14 × 14 cm, 56 pages \/ 28 postcards, hardcover postcard book. First edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCondition: Good. General surface rubbing, light edge and corner wear, and handling marks to covers consistent with age.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/journal\/the-new-rare-at-glue-book-fair-2026\"\u003eThe New Rare at Glue Book Fair 2026\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gallery Interform \/ Amus Arts Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54661413994834,"sku":"TNR-2026-0658","price":65.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Homma_Takaashi.Aero-photo_postcardgallerybook.jpg?v=1789075426"}],"url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/collections\/takashi-homma.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}