
Punctus Contra Punctum
- Publisher
- Match and Company
- Year
- 2013
- Specifications
- Softcover
257 x 182 mm
24 pages
22 photographs
Text by Kisato Kusano
Limited edition of 700 copies
M label No. 30
Twenty-two portraits made on weekends over one month, from 7 September to 6 October 2013, in a temporary studio set up in the basement of the bookstore On Sundays. Kyoji Takahashi recruited his sitters from the general public and in the end photographed 42 people, with the sessions open for anyone to watch. Despite the tension of each session, the atmosphere was pervaded by an intimate relationship between photographer and sitter. Takahashi explains the idea with a joke: after years of selling prints to friends he had run out of customers and thought of opening a gallery, following in the footsteps of Man Ray. The studio interior was designed by HIGASIX. The colour portraits show individuals and pairs, and the cover is blue with the title in tall dark letters.