LOCAL PRODUCT KEYS / 843-0022-844-0024 (Saga)

Author: Gottingham and Yoh Komiyama
Language: English / Japanese
Publication: DAIKANYAMA TSUTAYA BOOKS / 2016
Format: Softcover / 105 x 148 mm / 160 pages / offset printing

I told my brother,
”I will take over our family business.
You will be an artist, as you wish.”

This book was created through the R&D project “Tsutaya Souvenirs” by product designers Hiroshi Komiyama and Gottingham, and includes two forms of photographic work as artistic research. They traveled together, and through a series of dialogues with people involved in local craftsmanship, they improvised keywords using a staged photography/typology shooting style. In the Saga section, they visited Momota Touen in Arita Town, where they examined [family, local industry, mass production, and artwork], using the words and things they saw and heard there as a starting point. Designed by Toshimasa Kimura.

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Gottingham and Yoh Komiyama: Local Product Keys / 843-0022-844-0024

Organization: DAIKANYAMA TSUTAYA BOOKS
Executive Producer: Muneaki Masuda (Culture Convenience Club Co., Ltd.)
Producer: Naoyuki Tajima (Culture Convenience Club Co., Ltd.)
Marketing: Kei Fujii (Culture Convenience Club Co., Ltd.)
Eichibition: Daisuke Takano (Culture Convenience Club Co., Ltd.)
Public Relations: Sumiyo Motonaga (Culture Convenience Club Co., Ltd.)

Artistic Research: Gottingham and Yoh Komiyama
Introduction: Kazuko Sakamoto

Site (Saga, Arita): Momota Touen Corporation

Book Design: Toshimasa Kimura

Bookbinding Direction: Keisuke Shinohara (Shinohara Shikou Ltd.)
Bookbinding: Shinohara Shikou Ltd.
PIC: Mizuki Masubuchi (Shinohara Shikou Ltd.)
Tatsuhiko Niijima (Shinohara Shikou Ltd.)

Print: Yamada Photo Process Co., Ltd.

Paper: Takeo Co., Ltd.
LK COLOR super white 256g/m²
AIRUS white 93 g/m²

Text Editing, Translation: Kazuko Sakamoto

This is an ongoing research, and it is partially published for public viewing
on the occasion of Open Lab, August 2016

First edition of 25
©2016 for the images and text : Gottingham and Yoh Komiyama

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any ther storage and retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the artist.

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著者: Gottingham and Yoh Komiyama
言語: 英語 / 日本語
発行者 / 発行年: DAIKANYAMA TSUTAYA BOOKS / 2016
仕様: Softcover / 105 x 148 mm / 160 pages / offset printing

弟に言ったのです
「わたしが問屋を継ぐから
おまえは好きに作家をやりなさい」

本書はプロダクトデザイナーの小宮山洋とGottinghamが進めるR&Dプロジェクト「蔦屋書店のおみやげ」を通して生まれ、アーティスティックリサーチとして二つの形式の写真作品が収められている。彼らは共に旅をし、地域のものづくりに携わる人々との対話を重ねながら、ステージド・フォトグラフィ／タイポロジーの撮影スタイルによって、即興的にキーワードを導き出した。佐賀編では有田町にある株式会社百田陶園を訪れ、そこで見聞きした言葉や事物をきっかけに［家族、地場産業、量産、作品］を考察した。デザインは木村稔将。

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