{"product_id":"landscape-toshio-shibata","title":"LANDSCAPE — Toshio Shibata","description":"\u003ch2\u003eEngineered terrain in six collotype sheets\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLANDSCAPE gathers six black-and-white photographs by \u003cstrong\u003eToshio Shibata\u003c\/strong\u003e, made in Japan between 1989 and 1990 in Niigata, Fukushima, Miyazaki and Tochigi prefectures. The images show concrete retaining walls and erosion-control dams set into mountainous terrain — structures built for engineering purposes, photographed as compositions in which human intervention and landscape form a single visual order.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished by \u003cstrong\u003eBenrido\u003c\/strong\u003e in Kyoto as part of its Mini Portfolios series, this open-edition release presents the photographs as collotype prints on Takeo Matt-color HG paper, rather than as reproductions bound into a book. The six sheets remain loose, held within a portfolio case and supplied in a protective bag, allowing each print to be viewed or displayed independently. A Japanese-language leaflet accompanying the set explains the collotype process itself — a nineteenth-century printing technique valued for its continuous tonal range between shadow and highlight.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBenrido is explicit that these collotypes are a distinct printing medium from Shibata's original gelatin-silver prints; the portfolio should be understood on those terms, as a collotype edition rather than a set of original photographic prints.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShibata, born in Tokyo in 1949, studied oil painting before turning to photography, and has worked consistently with large-format views of dams, retaining walls, and other constructed elements within the landscape. His photographs from this period were included in MoMA's \u003cem\u003eNew Photography 8\u003c\/em\u003e (1992–93), which holds related images from the same years and regions — context for the practice this portfolio documents, though the institutional prints and this Benrido edition remain separate objects.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMore works by the photographer can be found in the \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/toshio-shibata\"\u003eToshio Shibata\u003c\/a\u003e collection, alongside further \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/japanese-photobooks\"\u003eJapanese photobooks\u003c\/a\u003e in the catalogue.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Benrido","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54938289668442,"sku":null,"price":99.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/landscape-toshio-shibata-cover.jpg?v=1791554757","url":"https:\/\/lokator100.store\/products\/landscape-toshio-shibata","provider":"Lokator100","version":"1.0","type":"link"}