EMPTY HEAVEN - Paul Graham
Fifty years after the end of the Second World War, Paul Graham (1956-) examines the effects of total defeat and unconditional surrender on contemporary Japanese culture. Imaging the apparent contradictions surrounding Japan's political and economic roles in the world during this period, Paul Graham constructs powerfully evocative juxtapositions: a young girl and an elderly statesman, an atomic flash and a candy wrapper, or part of an old photograph and a cherry blossom. Photographed in close-up, the smallest details act as powerful psychological triggers, investigating what seems to be a collective amnesia that has appeared in Japanese culture since the end of the Second World War.
Published by Scalo, 1995
32.5 cm x 24.5 cm , 96 pages, good condition
ISBN 188161653-3
Fifty years after the end of the Second World War, Paul Graham (1956-) examines the effects of total defeat and unconditional surrender on contemporary Japanese culture. Imaging the apparent contradictions surrounding Japan's political and economic roles in the world during this period, Paul Graham constructs powerfully evocative juxtapositions: a young girl and an elderly statesman, an atomic flash and a candy wrapper, or part of an old photograph and a cherry blossom. Photographed in close-up, the smallest details act as powerful psychological triggers, investigating what seems to be a collective amnesia that has appeared in Japanese culture since the end of the Second World War.
Published by Scalo, 1995
32.5 cm x 24.5 cm , 96 pages, good condition
ISBN 188161653-3
Fifty years after the end of the Second World War, Paul Graham (1956-) examines the effects of total defeat and unconditional surrender on contemporary Japanese culture. Imaging the apparent contradictions surrounding Japan's political and economic roles in the world during this period, Paul Graham constructs powerfully evocative juxtapositions: a young girl and an elderly statesman, an atomic flash and a candy wrapper, or part of an old photograph and a cherry blossom. Photographed in close-up, the smallest details act as powerful psychological triggers, investigating what seems to be a collective amnesia that has appeared in Japanese culture since the end of the Second World War.
Published by Scalo, 1995
32.5 cm x 24.5 cm , 96 pages, good condition
ISBN 188161653-3
