Tadao Ando : The Colours of Light (Mini Edition)

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A good architectural photography book

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Tadao Ando : The Colours of Light (Mini Edition)
Tadao Ando
Manufacturer: Phaidon Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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The Colours of Light is a beautiful, dense little book that showcases English photographer Richard Pare's stunning takes on the respected, influential Japanese architect Tadao Ando. Pare photographed Ando's work over a 10-year period, and with a remarkable consistency has realized the intricacies of Ando's constructed confrontations between architecture and nature. Pare translates this dialogue with great skill in his photographs and easily manages to convey (convert?) the conversations about space, the absence/presence dialectic, that all buildings declaim. In his overview essay at the end of the book, Pare writes: "Space itself is immovable. It has no movement, though all movement is in space. All space is actually static, and potentially dynamic. We conceive space statically, but we experience it dynamically. The space that is rendered in a photograph is a static space of potential movement." His photographs bear out, but overcome, this tension. Tom Heneghan's introduction wonders if Pare's career as a "photographer of architecture rather than an architectural photographer" has enabled him to so keenly grasp the nature of Ando's work. Whatever the reason, this is a remarkable collection. --Mark Thwaite, Amazon.co.uk

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A good architectural photography book.......2005-03-17

The value of this book largely depends on how familiar you are with Ando's work. For example, if you have read articles about his Water Temple from architectural magazines, it is really nice to zoom in and take a close look at several details shown in this book. On the other hand, if you don't know Water Temple project, it will be hard for you to catpure the overall structure of this incredible building from this book. Simply put, this book focuses more on photography and details rather than overall structure. You need to study these projects in order to appreciate the details. Of course, the pictures are really nice.

Beautiful little book.......2001-11-09

Beautiful little portfolio showcasing some of Tadao Ando's best known work. Richard Pare's photographs are excellent. The book's design is also very elegant in its minimalism. A must have.

ando ando ando.......2001-07-27

Ando's work is splendidly displayed by Pare. But it would be very hard to take a bad picture of one of Tadao's buildings anyway. Great eye candy for anyone.

Ando and Pare - What rice is to sushi!!.......1999-07-26

If you have a slither of appreciation for the finer things on this planet, you definately should not pass up the opportunity to own this title. A book that left me speechless and I mean that!! - 10 Stars -

The Nature of the Unnatural.......1998-04-17

The sublime architecture of Ando, delivered on a haunting polychromatic plate by R. Pare. The photos discover many of the wonderful uses of space and form Ando masters and manipulates to tame light into a force that is nearly unrivaled by any other modern architect. Certainly it makes the oft ludicrous shapes of several (ahem) "Experienced" LA-types appear clumsy and banal (Basque'ing in their own glory perhaps?). Most wonderful is the way in which he can make one look at the 'ordinary' materials used (exposed concrete, etc.), and focus on the forms themselves; or better, to enjoy the materials in their place. Why a '9' rather than a perfect score? Though less artistic, I would have enjoyed a few more full-shots along with the other photos to better put each structure into a perspective understandable by those of us unable to visit the sites in person.

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The Panaflex User's Manual, Second Edition, provides detailed instructions and illustrations on how to use Panaflex motion picture camera equipment. Developed in conjunction with Panavision, this easy-to follow manual provides current, up-to-date information on all aspects of the most widely used camera system on major motion pictures in Hollywood.

The Panaflex User's Manual, Second Edition, provides detailed instructions and illustrations on how to use Panaflex motion picture camera equipment. Developed in conjunction with Panavision, this easy-to follow manual provides current, up-to-date information on all aspects of the most widely used camera system on major motion pictures in Hollywood.

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"When I close my eyes, all I see is clear, bright water." So remarks one of the people whose memories, told in their own words, make up this record of a vanishing way of life in small-town, lakeside Japan. Memories of Wind and Waves gathers the richly detailed stories of thirty-three elderly men and women who spent their lives working on or around Japan's second-largest lake, Kasumigaura. Though just forty miles from Tokyo, the area was throughout much of the twentieth century very rural and poor -- a world away from the capital that we know today. Many people tell of working late into each night in a struggle to survive, supplementing their main livelihood from fishing with a bit of farming or other work. Yet these are people who lived so close to nature -- in some cases literally on the lake -- that a great many of their reminiscences are not about hardship but about just how beautiful the place was.

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No geishas, no pagodas; real life in rural Japan........2006-09-04

This book is a collection if interviews with old Japanese men and women, remembering their life experiences in one particular area of pre-war Japan. The author is obviously very close to these people, as they speak freely and intimately about family, work, and hardship. This is a glimpse of every-day Japan in a past era that we rarely see. The strength of the average hard-working Japanese men and women is what shines through.

Memories of Wind and Waves: a Self-Portrait of Lakeside Japan.(Book Review): An article from: The Oral History Review

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Memories of Wind and Waves: a Self-Portrait of Lakeside Japan.(Book Review): An article from: The Oral History Review
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Binding: Digital

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Release Date: 2005-07-31

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Title: Memories of Wind and Waves: a Self-Portrait of Lakeside Japan.(Book Review)
Author: Linda McCann
Publication: The Oral History Review (Refereed)
Date: December 22, 2004
Publisher: Oral History Association
Volume: 31 Issue: 1 Page: 86(3)

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