Rasen Kaigan / Album

Photographer
Lieko Shiga
Publisher

AKAAKA
ISBN

9784903545929 — Open search and refresh status Amazon.ca — Open search and refresh status Amazon.com — Open search and refresh status AbeBooks — Open search and refresh status eBay — Open search and refresh status
Publication Year

2013
Edition

First Edition

Hardcover English, Japanese 280 pages 25.7 x 36.4 x 3 cm 717 g

Description

Lieko Shiga’s “Rasen Kaigan” (Spiral Coast) is a haunting, multi-layered masterpiece that transcends traditional documentary photography. Created over four years while living in the coastal village of Kitakama, the project was profoundly altered by the 2011 tsunami. Shiga acted as the community’s “organizer” and photographer, blending local oral histories and myths with surreal, staged imagery. The book features high-contrast, saturated photographs that evoke “earth spirits” and the visceral relationship between the land and the human body.

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