Publisher/赤々舎

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"Ground," the first photobook by photographer Kozue Takagi (1985-), who made a striking debut after winning the Canon New Cosmos of Photography Grand Prix, is a representative early work that constructs a digital collage from a vast number of analog photographs, and is a companion piece to "MID," which was published at the same time. In 2006, while still a student at Tokyo Polytechnic University, Takagi won the Canon New Cosmos of Photography Grand Prix and the runner-up prize at the Epson Color Imaging Contest, attracting attention as a new generation of artist who crosses the boundaries of photography and contemporary art. In this book, she overlaps her perspective on the outside world with her awareness of delving into her own inner self, layering countless photographs to reconstruct one magnificent image. The world, where the birth and death of life, creation and collapse are constantly cyclical, possesses an overwhelming density reminiscent of a modern mandala, drawing the viewer into the details. Based on her eponymous solo exhibition held at TARO NASU GALLERY in 2009, this is an important collection of works that showcases the origins of Kozue Takagi's work, and was highly acclaimed as an ambitious attempt to expand the possibilities of the photographic medium.