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Utatane

Collector Grade · C- Rarity · Common Deal · Fair Confidence · Low
Paperback / Softcover with transparent dust jacket Paperback Japanese 128 pages 24.2 x 19.0 x 1.2 cm 540 g

Experimental Legacy Market Signal

Rarity 7.2/100 · Collector 0/100 · Deal 59.72/100 · Listings: 8 · Avg price: $132.62 · Min price: $68.90

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Description

Rinko Kawauchi’s “Utatane” (Siesta) is one of the most influential debut photobooks of the 21st century. Winning the 27th Kimura Ihei Photography Award, it established Kawauchi’s signature style: luminous, square-format images that transform the mundane into the sublime. The book captures a fragmented world of everyday details—a butterfly on a screen, a grandfather’s profile, or a cracked egg—finding beauty and a quiet sense of dread in the fleeting cycle of life and death. With no accompanying text, the imagery relies on a rhythmic sequence that evokes the hazy, semi-conscious feeling of waking from a nap.