{"title":"Takeshi Ishikawa","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"naked-city-varanasi-takeshi-ishikawa","title":"Naked City Varanasi - Takeshi Ishikawa","description":"\u003ch3\u003eNaked City Varanasi — Takeshi Ishikawa’s photobook of life and death in Varanasi\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNaked City Varanasi\u003c\/em\u003e presents Varanasi not as a distant spiritual symbol, but as a city of radical coexistence. Ishikawa photographs the poor and the rich, the solitary and the crowded, the naked and the adorned, the living and the dead. The result is not an ethnographic summary, but a dense visual field in which sacred ritual and physical reality remain inseparable.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne of the book’s strengths is duration. Ishikawa began visiting Varanasi in 1980 and returned almost every year for roughly four decades. That persistence gives the work a different kind of authority: not the shock of a single visit, but the accumulation of long attention. The city appears not as spectacle, but as something lived through repeated contact.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe photographs hold together intensity and clarity. Burning ghats, alleys, ascetics, bathers, crowds, and isolated figures all move through the sequence, but the book avoids reducing Varanasi to a single idea. Instead, it remains faithful to contradiction. Life and death, purity and impurity, devotion and exhaustion occupy the same space. That unstable overlap is the real subject of the work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003ePilgrims, ascetics, burning ghats, and the untamed crossing of worlds\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePhotographs Varanasi as a city of simultaneous opposites\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBuilt from decades of return visits beginning in 1980\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIncludes scenes of pilgrims, ascetics, crowds, and cremation spaces\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSupported by contextual texts by Kenin Ito\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStrong fit for readers of documentary photography and Japanese photobooks\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eEdition details for Naked City Varanasi\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTitle:\u003c\/strong\u003e Naked City Varanasi\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eArtist:\u003c\/strong\u003e Takeshi Ishikawa\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/sokyusha\" title=\"Sokyusha\"\u003eSokyusha\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eEdition note:\u003c\/strong\u003e signed edition\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication year:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2020\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\" title=\"photobook\"\u003ephotobook\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e hardcover\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 271 × 230 mm\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eExtent:\u003c\/strong\u003e 114 pages \/ 95 images\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/strong\u003e English, Japanese\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTexts by:\u003c\/strong\u003e Kenin Ito\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Sokyusha","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53897359163738,"sku":null,"price":80.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/naked-city-varanasi-takeshi-ishikawa-front-cover.jpg?v=1774711934"}],"url":"https:\/\/lokator100.store\/collections\/takeshi-ishikawa.oembed","provider":"Lokator100","version":"1.0","type":"link"}