{"product_id":"rinko-kawauchi-halo","title":"Rinko Kawauchi: Halo","description":"In recent years, Rinko Kawauchi’s exploration of the cadences of the everyday  has begun to swing farther afield from her earlier photographs focusing on tender  details of day-to-day living. In her series and resulting book  Ametsuchi  (2013), she  concentrated mainly on the volcanic landscape of Japan’s Mount Aso, using a historic  site of Shinto rituals as an anchor for a larger exploration of spirituality. In Halo,  Kawauchi expands this inquiry, this time grounding the project with photographs of  the southern coastal region of Izumo, in Shimane Prefecture, interweaving them with  images from New Year celebrations in Hebei province, China—a five-hundred-year- old tradition in which molten iron is hurled in lieu of fireworks—and her ongoing  fascination with the murmuration of birds along the coast of Brighton, England.  Cycles of time, implicit and subliminal patterns of nature and human ritual, are  mesmerizingly knit together in these pages.   Contemporary Japanese photography has not often been concerned with the  natural landscape; the seemingly ever-expanding cityscape of Tokyo was more of a  preoccupation up until 2011, a moment when the presumed order of things—natural,  civic, and otherwise—was upended by the combined disasters of tsunami, earthquake,  and human miscalculation. Kawauchi’s most recent work is not a commentary on  natural disaster and unnatural aftermath. It is, however, an acknowledgment of larger  forces at play.","brand":"Aperture","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32130415427667,"sku":"","price":62.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781597114110.jpg?v=1780985733","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/rinko-kawauchi-halo","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}