Publisher/Dog Ear Press

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"The Circle Game" is an art book directed by Tsugiya Inoue (1947-), one of Japan's leading art directors, with photography by Ryota Shin (1973-) and Tamaki Yoshida (1967-). Inoue has created numerous masterpieces in a wide range of fields, including advertising, music, fashion, and publishing, and has been a leading figure in the Japanese graphic design world. In this book, under his exceptional art direction, the photographs by Shin and Yoshida are organically interwoven to form a single work of art. Monochrome photographs with the sun and moon, light and water as motifs are presented in sequence, quietly depicting the cycles, contrasts, and passage of time that exist in the natural world. Rather than telling a clear story, the repetition and resonance of images transform the act of turning the pages into an experience in which one feels the rhythm and time itself. As the title "THE CIRCLE GAME" suggests, this book visualizes the cycle woven by life, nature, light, and darkness. It is both a photobook and a beautiful art book in which design, photography, and bookbinding come together as one.