Empty Heaven 1980s tracing a lineage of flatness

tracing a lineage of flatness while connecting traditional Japanese art to contemporary pop culture

ISBN4-924880-91-4

This book has been designed as a conceptual visual story rather than just a plain collection of photographs

a magazine marking the early stages of Araki and editor Akira Suei’s publishing collaboration

Yohji Yamamoto and Rei Kawakubo made an enormous impact on the fashion industry in the late twentieth century

Empty Heaven 1980s tracing a lineage of flatnessEmpty Heaven was published to accompany Paul Grahams exhibition Photographs from Japan 1989 1995 at Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg in Germany. Fifty years after the end of World War II, this book is a collection of photographs examining contemporary Japanese society, and reveals Japan as a place distantly removed from atomic destruction yet still so affected by it. 88 pages, 24. 5 32. 4 cm, Published by Scalo in 1995. Hardcover with dust jacket with a 10 page