From the Hip | Yoshihiko Ueda | Aka Aka 2025 [FIRST PRINTING]

From the Hip | Yoshihiko Ueda | Aka Aka 2025 [FIRST PRINTING]This book brings together 600 photographs selected from Yoshihiko Uedas retrospective exhibition held at The Museum of Modern Art, Hayama from July to November 2025. The collection spans Uedas entire career. "A photograph records a certain person on a certain day, at a certain time, in a certain place. A few years later, or a few decades, it faithfully conveys to the viewer the moment in which it was taken, exactly as it was. The more casual, the more

His photographic language - the plastic strength of his contrasting blacks and whites

the windows symbolise the existential loneliness that most of us must come to terms with to a greater or lesser degree

the photographs collected in this volume propose an ordinary surface reality in which deeper meanings emerge

otherwhise clean copy in NF conditions

I was past the age of 30

Throughout these sections

slightly lonely

We don't need any more chains of conflict

all very light both on the cover and on the back cover

in a portrait together with the surroundings in which they were grounded

" - Ryudai Takano

made him a leading Japanese artist of his generation