Editor Masanobu Sugatsuke's new book provides a bird's-eye view of the present and future of photography, and is the definitive book on photo journalism. | news

Article in "AH.Masanobu Sugatsuke, a well-known editor at the "MUJI" magazine, will be releasing his new book.

. The title is "Before the End of Photography. It will be a compilation, with additions and corrections, of an essay on photography called "Ryuko Shashin Tsushin," which was serialized in the photography magazine "Commercial Photo" (GENKOSHA, Inc.).

. The creators interviewed included Kishin Shinoyama, Daido Moriyama, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Takashi Homma to Jamie Hawkesworth, Fabien Baron, film director Ryusuke Hamaguchi, media artist Yoichi Ochiai, and many more, all of whom are in the top tier of creators.

A total of 116 leading image makers of the era are interviewed, from fashion photography, advertising, nudes, landscape, documentary, and art photography to film, making this book the definitive journalism on photography, covering almost all major photographic events of recent years.

The title is somewhat provocative , and very intriguing. What is the theory of photography that can be seen today, when photography has been democratized as never before?

I would like to recommend this book to all people, without being intimidated by its technical content.

INFORMATION

Before the picture ends."

Release date: Wednesday, January 25, 2023
List price: ¥2,200
Specifications: 46x, standard size, cover with special silver ink, obi available.
Number of pages: 16 pages of color frontispiece, 280 pages of text, 296 pages in total
Book design: BOOTLEG
Published and distributed by Genkosha

Main interviewees (in alphabetical order, titles omitted)
Yoshihiko Ueda / Yoshiyuki Okuyama / Yoichi Ochiai / Mari Katayama / Kazumi Kurigami / Masashi Sanai / Mari Sarai / Jamie Hawkesworth / Lieko Shiga / Kishin Shinoyama / Jack Davison / Johnny Dufour / Hiroshi Sugimoto / Chikashi Suzuki / Kyoji Takahashi / Mikiya Takimoto / Ryusuke Hamaguchi / Hannah Moon / Fabien Baron / Tamotsu Fujii / Daisuke Hosokura Mayumi Hosokura, Takashi Honma, Taiji Matsue, Daido Moriyama, Yusuke Yamatani, Daisuke Yokota, Leslie Key

Masanobu Sugatsuki
Editor / President of Gutenberg Orchestra Inc. born in Miyazaki, Japan in 1964 . He has served as editor-in-chief of Composite, Invitation, and Ecocolo, and currently handles everything from editing and writing to planning and consulting. . His publications include "Hajimete no Editing," "Monogatari Naki Sekai," "Away from Animals and Machines," and others. For photography books, he has edited Kishin Shinoyama, Daido Moriyama, Yoshihiko Ueda, Mark Borthwick, Jeff Burton, Elena Yamchuk, and others. He is also the president of United Vagabonds, an art book publishing company, and edited and published Mari Katayama's photo book "GIFT," which won the Ihei Kimura Photography Award. . He runs "Editing Spartan School" at Shimokitazawa B&B and "Tokyo Geijutsu Chugakko" at Shibuya Parco. He is a professor at Tohoku University of Art & Design and a recipient of the NYADC Silver Award and the D&AD Award.