Transparency is the new mystery - Photobookstore
Transparency is the new mystery (imperfect)
Transparency is the new mystery - Photobookstore
Transparency is the new mystery (imperfect)

Transparency is the new mystery (imperfect)

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  • Mack Books 2012
  • Hardback, 1st edition
  • Near fine

Transparency is the new mystery comprises twenty-two images of nudes and crystals, by Japanese photographer Mayumi Hosokura. The fragile silhouette of a hand, a coiled nude body, or the transfixing symmetry of crystalline minerals are shown in soft, translucent black and white images, held together by an enigmatic interior logic.

I was prepared for the transformation of the forest – the crystalline tress hanging like icons in those luminous covers, the jewelled casements of the leaves overhead, fused into a lattice of prisms, through which the sun shone in a thousand rainbows, the birds and crocodiles frozen into grotesque postures like heraldic beasts carved from jade and quartz…

JG Ballard, The Crystal World

Final few slightly imperfect copies with a faint bump to spine end/corner