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Neco : photographs and illustrations

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Description: "Born in Nagoya, Japan in 1964, Yuichi Hibi trained as an actor and filmmaker, achieving success in a broad range of film and theater productions before moving to New York in 1988. It was at this time that he began to make photographs. Speaking virtually no English, Hibi was the quintessential outsider. His quietly intense images evoke a sense of longing and isolation, yet they also find beauty and order and meaning in overlooked places and things ... We are pleased to announce the artist's follow-up monograph, Neco ('Cat'). Spanning several years, the rich, grainy photographs of cats at rest, play, and on the hunt spill of the pages in this beautifully-produced artist's book. Rather than simply documenting the activities of cats he has come across over the years, Hibi has managed to capture the very essence of being feline"--Publisher's description.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: ©2008.
Call number: 653247
Creator: Hibi, Yuichi

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ISBN

1590052102

9781590052105

Provenance

Gift of Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, August 2020.

Dimensions

41 cm

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Nazraeli Press,

Joy of Giving Something, Inc.,

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