NU・E Photographs 1992-1997 Signed (1997)
NU・E, a 1997 photobook by Asako Narahashi, encapsulates five years of her early career in a series of enigmatic, glossy, black-and-white images. Influenced by her time in her mentor, Daido Moriyama's workshop, Narahashi employs an incisive lens to frame objects like statues, shop windows, and real and artificial animals, emphasizing their shifting liminal presence in familiar and transitory spaces. The title, referencing a traditional, Japanese, mythical shape-shifting creature, reflects the book’s meditation on the fragmented contours of an uncertain Japanese society in a time of rapid transition.
- 118 pp.
- Published by Sokyusha
- First Edition
- 29 x 1.5 x 23 cm
- Hardcover