AMAGATSU UDA captured on 6 x 6

captured on 6 x 6 black-and-white film

the more strangely empty I became inside

Hiroshima (documenting the city 12 years after the atomic bomb and its victims)

including becoming the first Japanese person to win the prestigious Prix Nadar (awarded to the best photobook published in France that year) for her 2019 book

" which compiled these photographs

AMAGATSU UDA captured on 6 x 6*Available only in Europe *This book is secondhand. This volume compiles photographs that Yoshihiko Ueda took over many years of Ushio Amagatsu, the founder and director of the Butoh company Sankai Juku. Against a black background, Amagatsus body, entirely coated in white, is depicted in various forms. The physical presence of Ushio Amagatsu, dancing in the darkness, evokes the form of a Buddhist statue. This collection is an exploration of the latent