{"product_id":"shigeru-onishi-a-mathematical-proposition-9783958297067","title":"Shigeru Onishi: A Mathematical Proposition","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book presents an overview of the avant-garde photographic oeuvre of Shigeru Onishi from the 1950s. Whether depicting nudes, cityscapes, trees, or interiors (or combinations of these realised through multiple exposures or photomontages), most striking about Onishi's photos are his unorthodox printing methods: using a brush to coat the photographic paper with emulsion, fogging, discolouration with acetic acid, creating the effect that the fixing process was incomplete, and colour correction by varying the temperature during development.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe painterly results show Onishi's interest to be not conventional representation but, in his words, the visual \"formation of ideas,\" and bringing out \"the flavours of the image as they change\" by embracing all aspects of chance involved in the photographic process. \"In truth,\" he argues, \"if your photograph consists only of planned elements, it is essentially identical to a drawing of a single equilateral triangle.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOnishi was furthermore a mathematician and this knowledge underpinned his approach: \"To know the conditions of the object's formation—this is the purpose of my photography, which is founded on a desire to pursue metamathematic propositions such as 'the possibility of existence' and 'the possibility of optional choice.'\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBy an artist largely unknown to the international public during his lifetime, \u003cem\u003eMathematical Structures\u003c\/em\u003e, made in collaboration with MEM, Tokyo, is the first comprehensive book presenting Onishi's startlingly original vision.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eShigeru Onishi is one of those photographers whose work boldly strikes me with the unease and anguish of an individual living through our times.\u003c\/em\u003e - Tatsuo Fukushima\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47427817079020,"sku":"9783958297067","price":120.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9783958297067.jpg?v=1774767306","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/shigeru-onishi-a-mathematical-proposition-9783958297067","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}