Edgar Honetschläger

Tokyo Plain

This collection of photographs paints an intimate portrait of Tokyo, the city the Austrian-born photographer-filmaker-graphic artist Edgar Honetschläger has called home since 1991. Rejecting the ubiquitous imagery of skyscrapers, bullet trains, neon signs, and pedestrian and traffic-clogged streets, Honetschläger instead seeks the islands of calm within urban Tokyo. Rare early-morning shots capture a still-deserted Tokyo at dawn, with an overcast sky and very few people in its famous streets. His Tokyo is a place of quiet gardens and reflection. The artist’s own poetic observations are arranged like bookmarks among the photographs, which were taken with an ordinary medium-format camera. A beautiful book which re-frames the reader’s thinking about Tokyo.

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IRAN - A WINTER JOURNEY

In December, 2006, a caravan of writers, photographers and artists from seven European countries and the United States toured Iran for three weeks with a delegation of Iranian counterparts, stopping in the romantic, historic cities of Tehran, Shiraz, Yazd and Isfahan, participating in cultural workshops, lectures and discussions, seeking to discover the heart of this much-talked-about but little-known nation. Iran, A Winter Journey combines color and black-and-white images, and short, evocative texts (and even poetry) to create a picture of present-day Iran.

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