Window -SOU- (Signed)

A privately published photo collection by Hiroshi Takiguchi. This volume compiles several years of events that occurred to his wife and her family, using his own photographs interspersed with old family photos that were left behind.

The sudden death of his mother-in-law, his father-in-law's long hospitalization, his wife's childbirth, the death of their cat, a family member, and then the death of his father-in-law. Takiguchi observes the continuous cycle of life and death within the family from a quiet distance. Rather than intensely expressing sorrow or joy, the photographs are arranged to capture the passage of time itself, through the light in hospital rooms, interiors, family figures, and the atmosphere by the window.

The title "Mado" (Window) is conceived as a thin boundary separating the inside and outside of a room, this side and the other side. The reading "SOU" layers multiple meanings such as "aspect" (相), "thought" (想), "loss" (喪), "funeral" (葬), and "accompany" (添う). This work gazes at the fragile boundary between life and death, past and present, those who remain and those who depart, through the image of a window.

This privately published edition was released in 2008 in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name at Nikon Salon "Juna 21." It is a limited edition of 400 copies, preceding the 2014 publication by Little Big Man.

[Title] MADO -SOU-
[Publisher] Private Edition
[Publication Date] November 25, 2008
[Pages] 50 pages
[Size] Approx. 257*210mm / 263g
[Format] Softcover
[Language] Japanese, English
[Title Reading] SOU
[Author/Editor] Hiroshi Takiguchi/Author, Hiroko Takiguchi/Design
[Printing] Offset Japan/Printing
[ISBN] -
[Condition] Used [6] Good to Fair (Slight corner fold, minor scuffing on cover)
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[Related Exhibition] Hiroshi Takiguchi Photo Exhibition "MADO-SOU-" (Nikon Salon bis, 2008)

Hiroshi Takiguchi (1977-)

Born in Shizuoka Prefecture. Photographer.

In 2000, participated in the New York University Film Production Summer Session for Beginners. In 2001, graduated from the Department of Design, Faculty of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts. In the same year, his animation work "Fū ni Yurarete" won the Grand Prize at the Group Gendai Film Competition. In 2004, his photographic work "Hazama" won the Excellence Award in Nobuyoshi Araki's selection at Canon New Cosmos of Photography 2004, and also received the Semi-Grand Prix in the same year.

Traversing photography, video, painting, and other media, he creates works exploring family, memory, life and death, and traces of land and time. In 2008, he presented "MADO-SOU-" at Nikon Salon "Juna 21." Since then, he has also presented "TRACE 2003~2009," "PEEP," "Tsuzureori -I-," "HAMAOKA," "Neko no Tsumetogi," and "Israel_Tōno."

Key works include "MADO -SOU-," "PEEP," "Neko no Tsumetogi Zine," and "Israel_Tōno."

Major awards include the Canon New Cosmos of Photography 2004 Nobuyoshi Araki Selection Excellence Award and Semi-Grand Prix.

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