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Kikuji Kawada's Chizu (The Map), published in 1965, has been a highly influential photobook sometimes cited with Robert Frank's The Americans. Martin Parr has called it 'the ultimate photobook as object'. You can get the sense of the book in this 16-minute video on the making of the book, by Kawada and designer Kohei Sugiura: The book has a layered structure, with every other double page spread being a gatefold, which forced an active physical effort by the reader. I became interested in The Map a few years ago, as I was interested in making a book with a more complex foldout structure. Just recently, though, I was wondering what Kawada did after Chizu and started by looking at his Instagram feed: @kawada_kikuji. You can also see an article with 50 images from his 2020 The Red and The Black exhibition on this Ricoh blog. Kawada's Red and Black exhibition involved heavy processed images, some of which had been strongly colorized, presumably using ColorEfex. That interested me because I have just finished posting on Instagram a "blue series" of 24 images — the blue to give a feeling of distance or memory or dream. You can see the images by starting with my post of 7-October-2021 and proceeding to the last post of the series, dated 22-Oct-2021. In the latter, I asked whether the blue colorization worked well, or whether it would be better for the series to be in black and white. Also, whether people felt ant of the images should be deleted to bring the series down from 24 to 20 images. Of course, this being Instagram, I got no responses. _______________________________________ Frog Leaping photobook and Instagram
