Painting

Name: Painting – Toshio Shibata
Brand: Chose Commune
SKU: 9791096383245
Price: 60.00 EUR
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Painting – Toshio Shibata

Toshio Shibata

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Painting by Toshio Shibata is a Chose Commune leporello photobook presenting 16 unpublished colour landscapes shaped by modern infrastructure and a painterly eye.

First edition
Publisher: Chose Commune
Photographs: Toshio Shibata
Plates: 16 colour plates
Pages: 20 pages
Format: 21 × 27 cm
Binding: Hardcover leporello; ribbon for vertical hanging
Languages: English / French
Publication date: 9 July 2021
ISBN: 9791096383245

About Painting

Painting is a compact leporello photobook by Toshio Shibata, published by Chose Commune, unfolding as a continuous journey through landscapes that feel both engineered and intimate. The project brings together 16 unpublished colour photographs, centred on Shibata’s precise approach to landscape photography and his long-standing interest in man-made structures embedded in nature.

The format matters. This hardcover concertina (20 pages, 21 × 27 cm) can be expanded into a single, flowing sequence, or displayed vertically using the ribbon on the spine, echoing the logic of a hanging scroll. The result is an object that treats landscape photography as something closer to painting: a measured surface, built from colour, rhythm, and careful framing.

Shibata is known for rigorous compositions that reduce scale and foreground structure. In Painting, artificial formations, channels, slopes, and constructed terrains become calm abstract fields beneath daylight. The photobook’s pacing makes the Mediterranean-style “travel” narrative unnecessary; instead, Painting stays with a single question: how the contemporary landscape becomes image.

About Toshio Shibata

Toshio Shibata (born 1949) is a Japanese photographer widely associated with landscape photography that foregrounds the meeting point of natural forces and human engineering. Working with a large-format camera, he is known for meticulous framing, crisp detail, and compositions that often minimise conventional markers like horizon and scale.

Shibata studied painting and has exhibited internationally since the early 1970s. His work has been shown at major institutions, and is held in prominent museum collections. Across his practice, “constructed landscapes” are not treated as documentary subjects, but as formal structures: water, concrete, rock, and infrastructure organised into quiet, abstract compositions.

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