PHOTO BOY 1979-1988 MY ROSE PERIOD IN AMERICA by Akiyoshi Taniguchi [SIGNED] - Vintage Photography Book, Limited Edition Collector's Item for Art Lovers & Photography Enthusiasts

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1973-1979(2009) 19792006

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This publication features a selection of photographs by Akiyoshi Taniguchi, which he had taken during his travels in the United States after graduating from high school in 1979. It is the second installment that follows from his previously released photobook, PHOTO-BOY 1973-1979 (2009, Sokyusha). Taniguchi, who has continued to take photographs since junior high school, was born in the temple of Chohouin situated in Kuramae, Tokyo, and currently engages in Buddhist missionary work as a chief priest. Continuing to express enthusiasm towards photography while fulfilling his duties as a priest, in 2006 Taniguchi came to establish “Kurenboh,” a place for exhibitions and viewings within the grounds of the temple. Ever since, he has organized various exhibitions with contemporary artists both working within Japan and overseas. Centering on photographic works, Taniguchi has accumulated an extensive collection through his unique eye, greatly contributing to the cultural sphere through donations to institutions including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. When Taniguchi had travelled to the United States, New York had been an energetic city where trends in art including photography were changing dramatically, constantly giving birth to new things. At the time, the significance of new works in the field of photography had been positively questioned under the movement of New Color Photography. Taniguchi further developed the scope of his personal oeuvre in considering his engagement in photographic practice, while apprenticing under the photographer Leo Rubinfien who had been recognized as one of the pioneers of New Color Photography. This publication comprises photographs that Taniguchi took in New York, as well as in Los Angeles where he resided as an overseas missionary, and also those taken in Japan when he temporarily returned from his travels –all of which convey his personal interpretation and expression of New Color Photography. On this occasion, the works featured have been selected from amongst the vast number of photographs that remained at the hand of Leo Rubinfien.

"These wonderful and gentle pictures embody a romance with photography itself, they are generous and humane." – Sandra Phillips, Curator Emerita of Photography, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art