{"product_id":"taratine-daisuke-yokota-signed","title":"Taratine, Daisuke Yokota (Signed)","description":"\u003cp\u003e T\u003cem\u003earatine\u003c\/em\u003e is the first US monograph by acclaimed Japanese photographer Daisuke Yokota. Highly regarded for his technical and aesthetic kinships with the avant-garde Mono-ha movement of the ‘60s and with Provoke-era masters such as Daido Moriyama and Takuma Nakahira, \u003cem\u003eTaratine\u003c\/em\u003e represents a new direction for Yokota, one that centers his work for the first time in another Japanese tradition, that of the confessional photographic I-novel. Comprised of photographs and a moving essay penned by Yokota, \u003cem\u003eTaratine\u003c\/em\u003e is his most personal work to date.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTaratine\u003c\/em\u003e brings together two bodies of new work—one from a road trip to Tohoku in 2007, and a second taken in Tokyo in 2014. The Tohoku photographs were inspired by Yokota happening upon an ancient ginkgo tree in the Aomori prefecture. Called \u003cem\u003eTaratine\u003c\/em\u003e, this tree has been worshipped by generations of women for its legendary fertility-enhancing properties. Yokota was reminded both of the Tohoku region’s traditional—and lingering—connection to the awe of natural spirits (the influence of Jomon-period animism) and of memories from his own childhood.\u003cbr\u003e From this experience came a photographic ode to those traditions and memories, one that also expresses his strong admiration for the important women in his life: his mother, in the case of the Aomori pictures; and his girlfriend, in the Tokyo pictures. By fusing the two together in \u003cem\u003eTaratine\u003c\/em\u003e, Yokota is charting a new direction for his work. As Marc Feustel observes in the afterword, “Unlike its predecessors, \u003cem\u003eTaratine\u003c\/em\u003e is driven by a more ambiguous and slippery set of emotions and sensations. A need for maternal love evolves into lust and desire. As much a book about sounds and smells as one of images—\u003cem\u003eTaratine\u003c\/em\u003e heightens all the senses as it breathes fresh air into a grand Japanese tradition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished by Session Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSoftcover, Signed, with Poster\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 160 Pages\u003cbr\u003e 28 x  22 cm\u003cbr\u003e 1 Black and White poster, 4 colours off set printing, thermography for cover and text pages\u003cbr\u003e ISBN 9780692321621\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Session Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":4178071027743,"sku":"TDY01","price":500.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2538\/3478\/products\/Taratine_Cover.jpg?v=1513643354","url":"https:\/\/www.thelibraryproject.ie\/it\/products\/taratine-daisuke-yokota-signed","provider":"The Library Project","version":"1.0","type":"link"}