
Pylon
- Publisher
- Match and Company
- Year
- 2011
- Specifications
- Softcover
290 x 257 mm
64 pages
32 photographs
Limited edition of 700 copies
M label No. 20
Masafumi Sanai has been called a child of mixed race between photography and human: asked how many percent of him is photography, he answered that 70 percent is photography and the rest is human, and he added that photographs can be changed only by photography itself. The book follows the exhibition Pylon held in Tokyo at the turn of the year until 18 January, his birthday, whose many visitors left comments such as that he keeps exploring something he knows he cannot reach. It is a turning point: Sanai plans ten books of the same size and layout over the following years, and Pylon suggests that the end and the start of his wandering lead to a new standpoint. The colour pictures show ordinary scenes, such as open ground under a blue sky, trees, a boat at a quay and a roadside building, on a white cover printed with the title and his name in blue Japanese characters.