To Plants (1976) by Gasho Yamamura is a rare self-published Japanese photobook that radically subverts traditional botanical photography.
Yamamura photographed his subjects during the daytime using a powerful strobe flash. This method artificially plunged the backgrounds into complete darkness, violently isolating the plants against stark, black voids. Stripped of their natural context, the flora takes on a raw, grotesque, and almost alien vitality. Rather than appearing as delicate objects of beauty, the plants seem to possess their own autonomous, aggressive wills, captured in high-contrast monochrome.
The book utilized a newly developed and highly specialized printing technique known as "Fineness Printing" (ファイネス印刷) to achieve extraordinarily deep, rich blacks, which amplifies the dramatic contrast and imposing presence of the subjects.
Foster street (Manhattan), 3pm October 15, 1972 by Masao Gozu is a classic example of the Japanese-American photographer’s meticulous and structured documentation of 1970s New York.
After moving to New York from Japan in 1971, Gozu began a rigorous, decade-long project photographing the city's street-level windows and the people gazing out of them. This image is a hallmark of that typological approach.
By shooting squarely and directly at the facade, Gozu uses the architectural elements (the bricks, the sill, and the window frame itself) as a physical border. This framing device highlights the threshold between the private, domestic sphere inside and the gritty, public reality of 1970s New York outside.
Gozu's"Windows" series will be the focus of his first major US museum exhibition, "Masao Gozu: Windows and Bars," opening at MoMA PS1 onNovember 5, 2026.
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