Lena Fritsch: Mika Ninagawa: Goldfish, Gebunden

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The only English-language monograph on one of Japan's most influential contemporary artists, Mika Ninagawa, presenting presenting the dazzling, dream-like world of her photography, installation and film.

Emerging from Onnanoko shashin , the Japanese 'girly photography' movement of the late 1990s, Mika Ninagawa's navigation of the once male-dominated photography scene has established her as a cultural phenomenon in Japan, her impact reaching across art, cinema, fashion and advertising.

Written by Lena Fritsch, an expert in 20th- and 21st-century Japanese art and photography, Mika Ninagawa: Goldfish brings together Ninagawa's vibrant photographs, large-scale immersive installations and her work as a film director. Fritsch's frank, light-hearted conversations with Ninagawa reveal her personal perspective on her career to date. Short texts introduce the recurring themes of fragility and strength, reality and fiction, that form the major motifs of her photography, and an essay by Japanese film expert Jennifer Coates explores her work as a director, including her semi-autobiographical Netflix show, Followers .

Bold, immersive and visually irresistible, this is an essential book for lovers of contemporary art, photography and Japanese visual culture.