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Room Living Room, Tokyo 1989-1994

Room Living Room, Tokyo 1989-1994

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A photobook by Masato Seto, who used a large format camera to document the portraits and living spaces of people living in Tokyo. This series, photographed between 1989 and 1994, was compiled and published by Shinchosha in 1996.

The subjects included people who had moved to Tokyo from countries such as Thailand, Vietnam, China, Korea, the Philippines, and the Middle East, as well as Japanese residents. Seto visited each of their homes and meticulously captured the person standing in the center of the room, along with the surrounding furniture, clothes, cosmetics, books, photographs, and daily necessities, using an 8x10 inch large format camera.

The subjects remained still, facing forward, enduring several seconds of exposure. In contrast to their tightly closed expressions, the objects left in the rooms eloquently tell stories of the residents' homelands, work, families, and lives in Tokyo. By presenting portraits and interiors within a single frame without separation, the book reveals the hidden individual lives and the reality of the city's internationalization.

This book has a unique structure, with approximately 8 meters of continuous photographs folded accordion-style. When unfolded, the rooms of residents with different nationalities and life backgrounds appear like an unfolding picture scroll, connected within the single city of Tokyo.

With this work and "Silent Mode," Seto received the 21st Ihei Kimura Award in 1996.
This photobook captures Tokyo, moving from the bubble economy to its collapse, and the lives of people crossing borders, seen through their individual living spaces.

[Title] Living Room, Tokyo 1989-1994
[Publisher] Shinchosha
[Publication Date] August 30, 1996 (First Edition)
[Page Count] -
[Size] Approx. 192 x 265 x 14mm / 508g
[Format] Hardcover, accordion binding
[Language] Japanese, English
[Title Reading] Heya Ribingu Rūmu Tōkyō 1989-1994
[Author/Editor, etc.] Masato Seto / Photography & Text, Kazushi Suzuki, Yoko Toshioka, Etsuko Honda / Design
[Printing] Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd. / Printing & Binding
[ISBN] 9784104131013
[Condition] Used [6] Good to Very Good (Cover: slight tanning on top edge, slight stains on back)
[Accessories] -
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[Related Exhibition] "Living Room, Tokyo" (Konica Plaza, Tokyo / 1996)

Masato Seto (せとまさと) 1953-

Born in Udon Thani, Thailand. Photographer.

Moved to Japan in 1961 and grew up in Fukushima Prefecture. Graduated from Tokyo College of Photography, now Tokyo Visual Arts. Participated in Daido Moriyama's photography workshop and became Masahisa Fukase's assistant before becoming independent in 1981.

In 1987, he co-founded Gallery PLACE M in Shinjuku, Tokyo, with Michio Yamauchi and others. He presents photographs and writings on themes such as Tokyo and Asia, migration, family, memory, and his multiple cultural backgrounds.

He received the 21st Ihei Kimura Award in 1996 for his photobooks "Silent Mode" and "Living Room, Tokyo." In 1999, he won the Shinchosha Academic Literature Award for his autobiographical essay "Toi and Masato."

His major photobooks include "Bangkok, Hanoi 1982-1987," "Silent Mode," "Living Room, Tokyo," "picnic," "binran," and "Cesium-137Cs-." In 2020, a retrospective exhibition "Masato Seto: Map of Memory" was held at the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, and in 2021, he received the 37th Higashikawa Award for Domestic Photographer.

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