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Every Building on the Ginza Strip

Date
2018
Publisher
Michael Pichler
Format
Artists' Books
ISBN
978-3-03747-086-2
Size
18.4 × 14.4 cm
Description

In 1954 Japanese writer and artist Shohachi Kimura published Ginza Haccho, with photographs by Yoshikazu Suzuki of every building on Ginza Street in Tokyo as an accordion foldout book. Twelve years later, Ed Ruscha published Every Building on the Sunset Strip in almost exactly the same style. While the latter has become a touchstone of conceptual publications and artists’ books, its predecessor remains largely unknown.

Appropriating Shohachi Kimura’s (and Ed Ruscha’s) work, Michalis Pichler’s accordion-folded book opens up to a fourteen-foot strip of photographs of every building on contemporary Ginza Street, each building identified by a street number. Crossroads are also identified with captions. Photographed from a car driving past, the individual photos were then pasted together to make the long accordion fold. Paper joins are visible throughout the book.

Pichler’s version offers a modern update, depicting Ginza street in contemporary Tokyo, where the facades are dominated by glamorous high-end global fashion and luxury brands mixed with local heavyweights.

Within Pichler’s body of work Every Building on the Ginza Strip represents a piece of serial photography, urban phenomenology, ambiguous social critique and art history karaoke. In a critical essay on appropriation (2009), Pichler discussed techniques of appropriation employed (often combined) in books today, and related the books of Ed Ruscha to its Japanese predecessors.

Bibliography:
Ruscha, Edward, EVERY BUILDING ON THE SUNSET STRIP, Los Angeles, 1966/1970, ed. 1000/5000
Suzuki, Yoshikazu (Kimura, Shohachi), Ginza Haccho (in Ginza Kawaii), Tokyo, Toho-Shuppan, 1954

Published in collaboration with ”greatest hits”, Berlin.

Softcover, perfect-bound, b/w. Housed in a slipcase.

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