{"product_id":"ishizuka-gentaro_pipeline-iceland-alaska","title":"PIPELINE ICELAND\/ALASKA","description":"\u003cp\u003eA photobook by Gentaro Ishizuka. This volume compiles works from his \"Pipeline\" series, shot in Iceland and Alaska.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Trans-Alaska Pipeline, approximately 1,280 kilometers long, stretches north to south, cutting through frozen ground and wilderness from the oil fields of Alaska's Arctic Ocean to the ice-free port of Valdez on the Pacific coast. Ishizuka recounts how he was strongly drawn to this man-made structure running through the wilderness when he visited Alaska with the intention of photographing untouched nature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c!--nlപാടThe book depicts massive structures placed within overwhelming natural landscapes. Snowfields, mountain ranges, grasslands, glaciers, geothermal areas. The pipelines extending through them sometimes appear to mar the landscape, and at other times, seem to become an integral part of it. Their existence, transporting oil and energy, represents an industrial structure in a distant land while simultaneously being connected to our daily lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn Iceland, he photographed pipelines transporting geothermal energy to the city. Amidst the different light and terrain of this land compared to Alaska, the distance between nature, man-made structures, and human activity quietly emerges. Ishizuka notes that the overwhelming resolution of an 8x10 inch large format camera makes images appear three-dimensional, giving original prints an undeniable impact. This photobook features meticulous depictions by a large format camera and striking images of structures that are at once humorous and poignant.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[Title] PIPELINE ICELAND\/ALASKA\u003cbr\u003e[Publisher] Kodansha\u003cbr\u003e[Publication Date] December 6, 2013\u003cbr\u003e[Page Count] 128 pages\u003cbr\u003e[Dimensions] Approx. 322 x 250 x 14mm \/ 1008g\u003cbr\u003e[Format] Softcover\u003cbr\u003e[Language] Japanese, English\u003cbr\u003e[Title Reading] PIPELINE ICELAND ALASKA\u003cbr\u003e[Author\/Editor, etc.] Gentaro Ishizuka\/Author, Yuta Ukai\/Book Design, Kosuke Ide\/Editor\u003cbr\u003e[Printing] Daishinsha\/Printing \u0026amp; Binding\u003cbr\u003e[ISBN] 9784062185080\u003cbr\u003e[Condition] Used【7】Good\u003cbr\u003e[Accessories] Tri-fold interview booklet (Interviewer: Kosuke Ide)\u003cbr\u003e[Featured in] -\u003cbr\u003e[Related Exhibitions] -\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eGentaro Ishizuka (1977-)\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBorn in Tokyo. Photographer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1999, he won the Epson Color Imaging Contest Grand Prize for \"WorldWideWonderful,\" a series shot across Africa and Asia. In 2002, he received the Visual Arts Photo Award and the Photographic Society of Japan Newcomer's Award for \"Worldwidewarp.\" In 2006, he published the photobook \"PIPELINE ALASKA.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 2011, he was dispatched overseas as an artist by the Agency for Cultural Affairs. In 2012, he was invited to the SIM Residency in Iceland, where he photographed pipelines transporting geothermal energy to the city. In 2013, he held an exhibition at the Reykjavik Museum of Photography. In the same year, \"PIPELINE ICELAND\/ALASKA\" was published by Kodansha.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 2016, he won the Grand Prix at the \"Steidl Book Award Japan,\" a dummy book award hosted by the German publisher Steidl, held in conjunction with the 8th TOKYO ART BOOK FAIR. This later developed into the series \"Gold Rush Alaska,\" focusing on the Alaskan gold rush, and he continues to create works exploring the spatiality of history and photography through landscapes, tableaux, and copied images.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe consistently photographs places where nature and human activity intersect, such as glaciers, pipelines, and the remnants of the gold rush.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMajor works include \"PIPELINE ALASKA,\" \"PIPELINE ICELAND\/ALASKA,\" \"GOLD RUSH ALASKA,\" and \"Glacier Diary.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMajor awards include the Epson Color Imaging Contest Grand Prize (1999), Visual Arts Photo Award (2002), Photographic Society of Japan Newcomer's Award (2002), and Steidl Book Award Japan Grand Prix (2016).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMajor collections -\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u0026lt; Related Figures \u0026gt;\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGentaro Ishizuka, Yuta Ukai, Kosuke Ide, Kodansha, Daishinsha, Steidl, Gerhard Steidl\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"いしづかげんたろう｜石塚元太良 \/ ISHIZUKA Gentaro","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44524226248746,"sku":null,"price":6200.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0649\/4280\/0938\/files\/A41002A5-6AA4-41F2-89F1-C9544BA7DE52.jpg?v=1782982486","url":"https:\/\/bunbuku.tokyo\/en\/products\/ishizuka-gentaro_pipeline-iceland-alaska","provider":"文福","version":"1.0","type":"link"}