Ōnishi, Shigeru, 1928-1994, photographer.

Shigeru Onishi : a metamathematical proposition / essay, Ryuichi Kaneko ; planning & research, Katsuya Ishida, Mizuho Takahashi ; editing, concept & design, Manfred Heiting.

First edition.

Göttingen, Germany : Steidl, 2021.
©2021

225 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

This book presents an overview of the avant-garde photographic oeuvre of Shigeru Onishi from the 1950s. Whether depicting nudes, cityscapes, trees or interiors (or combinations of these realized through multiple exposures or photomontages), most striking about Onishi's photos are his unorthodox printing methods: using a brush to coat the photographic paper with emulsion, fogging, discoloration with acetic acid, creating the effect that the fixing process was incomplete, and color correction by varying the temperature during development. The painterly results show Onishi's interest to be not conventional representation but, in his words, the visual "formation of ideas," and bringing out "the flavors of the image as they change" by embracing all aspects of chance involved in the photographic process. "In truth," he argues, "if your photograph consists only of planned elements, it is essentially identical to a drawing of a single equilateral triangle." Onishi was furthermore a mathematician and this knowledge underpinned his approach: "To know the conditions of the object's formation-this is the purpose of my photography, which is founded on a desire to pursue metamathematic propositions such as 'the possibility of existence' and 'the possibility of optional choice.'" By an artist largely unknown to the international public during his lifetime, A Metamathematical Proposition, made in collaboration with MEM, Tokyo, is the first comprehensive book presenting Onishi's startingly original vision.

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Ōnishi, Shigeru, 1928-1994.
Photography, Artistic.
Photomontage.
Photography Japan 20th century.
Photographie artistique.
art photography.
photomontages (visual works)
Photography
Japan

photobooks.
Photobooks
Livres de photographies.

Kaneko, Ryūichi, 1948-2021, contributor.
Ishida, Katsuya, researcher.
Takahashi, Mizuho, 1957- researcher.
Heiting, Manfred, editor.
Shigeru Onishi.
Shigeru Onishi. Japanese.

Metamathematical proposition

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