Edström, Anders, photographer.

Hanezawa Garden / Anders Edström.

First edition.

[London] : Mack, [2015]

2 volumes (approximately 250 unnumbered pages; 12 unnumbered pages) : colour illustrations ; 22-28 cm

Hanezawa Garden is an illicit trail through a walled garden in Tokyo, between thick foliage, slender bamboo and semi-inhabited outhouses, their plastic roofs heavy with leaves, as if reclaimed by the jealous trees. The protagonist, like a detective, catalogues the garden obsessively, registering strange and peripheral details: a sealed cardboard box, lingering on a sill, or the receding body of a workman. Time is loose, and the seasons slip by. The sightlines through Hanezawa are multiple and mutable, and the assembled images grow in weight through repetition and proximity. The minor characters of this elusive narrative are ordinary objects: a shell, half buried in the soil, whose brief significance is acute and unreadable, before it slips back into entropy. The surfaces, too, are iridescent, ungovernable-- garden huts with smeared panes that reflect sky or reveal the bulge of something, vegetating, behind. The windows, like the images themselves, always promise something-- a revelation-- just out of reach. Hanezawa Garden was demolished by the real estate developer Mitsubishi Estate in 2012, despite countless attempts by local residence to preserve the house and gardens.

9781910164204
1910164208

Hanezawa Garden (Tokyo, Japan)
Photography, Artistic.
Photographie artistique.
art photography.
Buildings
Tokyo (Japan) Buildings, structures, etc.
Japan Tokyo

Winter, C. W. author.

Anders Edström : Hanezawa garden

Location: Library main 291848
Call No.: BIB 235659
Copy: v. 1
Status: Available

Location: Library main 292044
Call No.: BIB 235659
Copy: v. 2
Status: Available