hmmn: musings from the far east(erwood)
Higashi Yamate, Nagasaki, September 6, 2003; Mamiya 645, 80mm/2.8, Ilford FP4 +
I’m busy with other things if you can’t tell, so offer up one of the few images from my trip to Nagasaki in September that I’ve been able to work on, to try to keep up with the Joneses.
It’s only the tiniest of images, but I do believe it qualifies as the first time an image of mine has been published in a publication that actually costs money to buy. The above (click on it for a larger version) is from the October issue of Artforum magazine, and shows my photo of Japanese filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu’s grave stone (original here) at the start of a piece on Ozu by Jim Jarmusch. (I realize it’s a bit teeny-bopperish, but I admit feeling a tinge of excitement when I got the issue and saw this placement, my photo next to Jim Jarmusch’s byline. The headline of this post is meant to be tongue-in-cheek, in case that wasn’t obvious.) The magazine had come across my small site about Ozu via a search and requested some images of his grave, along with some other Ozu paraphernalia.
Outside Shimuzu Shokai camera store, October 20, 2003. Mamiya 645, 55mm/2.8, Agfa Pan 400 pushed to 800.
Met up with some folks from the Japan Photography Mailing List last night for a night shoot in the environs of Shinjuku. The above shot, which wasn’t taken tonight but a few days ago in Ginza, nevertheless seemed like a good photo to illustrate last night’s get-together.