Heavy light : recent photography and video from Japan /
by Christopher Phillips ... [et al.]
- Göttingen : London : Steidl ; Thames & Hudson [distributor], 2008.
- 208 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm.
'Heavy Light' concentrates on four major themes that have come to preoccupy Japanese artists working with photography and video. These are the reshaping of Japanese tradition; the relation of nature to the manmade world; costume and the search for personal identity; and the child as cultural icon.