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Yoshiyuki’s cultishly popular work sits somewherebetween Brassaï’s Parisians by night, Weegee’s infrared pictures of amorousmoviegoers and Sophie Calle’s photographic explorations of surveillance. Whileseeming to cast a light on secret behavior, they reveal the yearning thatexists in voyeurism, the melancholy in desire.
Kohei Yoshiyuki’s The Park serves as a chronicle of a Japan we rarely see. Taken by night in Tokyo’s Shinjuku, Yoyogi, and Aoyama parks during the 1970s, the photographer used a 35mm camera, infrared film, and flash to capture a secret community of lovers and voyeurs of various ages and sexualities. His pictures document the people who gathered in these parks at night for clandestine trysts, as well as the many spectators lurking in the bushes who watched, and sometimes participated in, these couplings. With their raw, snapshot-like quality, these images not only uncover the hidden sexual exploits of their subjects, but also provoke questions about our own attitudes towards surveillance and voyeurism. This newly designed, comprehensive edition of Kohei Yoshiyuki: The Park brings this collectible classic back into print and includes new images and documentary materials.
Yoshiyuki’s cultishly popular work sits somewherebetween Brassaï’s Parisians by night, Weegee’s infrared pictures of amorousmoviegoers and Sophie Calle’s photographic explorations of surveillance. Whileseeming to cast a light on secret behavior, they reveal the yearning thatexists in voyeurism, the melancholy in desire.
Kohei Yoshiyuki’s The Park serves as a chronicle of a Japan we rarely see. Taken by night in Tokyo’s Shinjuku, Yoyogi, and Aoyama parks during the 1970s, the photographer used a 35mm camera, infrared film, and flash to capture a secret community of lovers and voyeurs of various ages and sexualities. His pictures document the people who gathered in these parks at night for clandestine trysts, as well as the many spectators lurking in the bushes who watched, and sometimes participated in, these couplings. With their raw, snapshot-like quality, these images not only uncover the hidden sexual exploits of their subjects, but also provoke questions about our own attitudes towards surveillance and voyeurism. This newly designed, comprehensive edition of Kohei Yoshiyuki: The Park brings this collectible classic back into print and includes new images and documentary materials.