Akihiko Okamura: The Memories of Others

Published as a collection for the first time, these arresting and poetic and images of Northern Ireland...
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Author: Trish Lambe
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Akihiko Okamura: The Memories of Others by Lambe, Trish

Akihiko Okamura: The Memories of Others

$113.25

Akihiko Okamura: The Memories of Others

$113.25
Author: Trish Lambe
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Published as a collection for the first time, these arresting and poetic and images of Northern Ireland reveal a rarely examined facet of the oeuvre of a celebrated twentieth century war photographer.

Akihiko Okamura became a renowned war photographer during the first years of the Vietnam war and later, as he documented wars in Biafra and the Middle East. In 1969, he moved from Southeast Asia to Dublin. From there, Okamura traveled frequently to Derry and other parts of Northern Ireland to document the country's "Troubles." This beautifully produced book brings together for the first time Okamura's Irish work, which was almost entirely unpublished before now. Presented in full page plates without text, Okamura's images are imbued with soft, muted colors that contrast with the violence of the situation in which they were conceived.
Brimming with feelings of fear, dread, anticipation, and resignation, these images reveal Okamura's humanity and curiosity, his concern with day-to-day existence, and the absurdities, incongruities, and disruptions of life during wartime: women preparing afternoon tea outside bombed rowhouses; girls dressed in their Sunday best leaving flowers at a roadside shrine; a collection of empty milk bottles destined to become incendiary devices. Illuminating essays by renowned photographic historians place this astounding collection in context with Okamura's larger body of work and situate these images within the history of both the medium and the country.

Author: Trish Lambe
Publisher: Prestel Publishing
Published: 06/04/2024
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.86lbs
Size: 11.14h x 7.94w x 0.73d
ISBN: 9783791393247

About the Author
TRISH LAMBE is Artistic Director of Photo Museum of Ireland in Dublin.
MASAKO TODA is a Japanese photographic historian.
PAULINE VERMARE is a curator of the exhibition on Okamura at the Photo Museum of Ireland in Dublin.
SEAN O'HAGAN is a journalist for the Guardian (London)

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