Kaze No Ehagaki

Shimpei Asai
Kaze No Ehagaki

Photographs: Shimpei Asai

Publisher: Olympus Camera Club

44 pages

Year: 1985

Price: 75 €

Comments: Hardcover with an insert, 19 x 26,2 cm, b&w photographs, discolorations on the front and back cover close to the edges, otherwise in a good condition.

Osamu Wataya is a photographer, but only in the dictionary sense of the word. Most artistic photographers use their subjects to make a work of art, “I want to be able to serve my subjects,” he says, “I want my subjects to be able to use me.” When the shutter snaps, he isn’t so much freezing a moment in time, as he is giving it reason to exist, “I don’t believe in photography for photography’s sake, but for the potential of an image, the potential of photography.”

In this book the photogaph use a small Olympus camera during a trip in Europe.