Tokyo Midnight

Name: Tokyo Midnight
Brand: Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand
SKU: 9780648414001
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Tokyo Midnight explores the Asian megalopolis, revealing how Tokyo awakens between dusk and dawn into a futuristic neonscape where artificial light dominates. Captured in early 2019 and 2020, just before the global pandemic, the photographs reflect on urban utopias, contrasting Eastern creative and technical sophistication with the waning global influence of the West.

The book offers a visual portrait of Tokyo's vibrant night life, reflecting its beauty and darkness, change and continuity, embodying the city’s liminal space between day and night.
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Ideal for readers fascinated by urban culture, contemporary photography, and East Asian cities, especially those interested in Tokyo’s dynamic nocturnal landscape and cultural shifts.

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Tokyo Midnight explores the Asian megalopolis and the ways Tokyo comes to life between dusk and dawn in a futuristic neonscape, a time when the natural light disappears, and the artificial light takes over.

The images were photographed in early 2019 and early 2020 (just before the Covid 19 pandemic exploded), the year the original Blade Runner film was set. As such, they interrogate the commercial nature of urban utopias while celebrating the technical and creative sophistication of the East, as opposed to the rapidly diminishing global dominance of the West.

'Life passes and buildings decay; nothing stays the same. Kip Scott's portrait of my vibrant home city at night illuminates these liminal moments and spaces, corners of the city on the cusp of change. His images hint at the ura that lies the other side of the omote, encapsulating the entire glorious vastness of the city, with its beauty and its ugliness, its dark and its light, a place that seems forever on the cusp of day and night.' — Katherine Tamiko Arguile, author of Meshi: A personal history of Japanese food.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780648414001

Publisher: Transit Lounge Publishing

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 01 October 2022

Country: Australia

Imprint: Transit Lounge Publishing

Illustration: Illustrations

Contributors:

Photographs by Kip Scott
Foreword by Katherine Tamiko Arguile
Photographs by Kip Scott
Foreword by Katherine Tamiko Arguile

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 305.0mm

Height: 315.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 96

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction

About the Author

Kip Scott is a Melbourne-based photographer and video artist. He is a graduate of RMIT's Bachelor of Arts (Photography). His artistic investigations cover urban exploration, architecture and video and has been awarded the San Pellegrino Cafe Society Photography in 2013 and Dockland Summer Shorts Video Prize in 2015.He has exhibited at Field 36 Gallery, 45 Downstairs, Fox Gallery, and the Roslyn Smorgon Gallery at Footscray Community Arts Centre. He was commissioned by the City of Maribyrnong to photograph the Melbourne suburb of Footscray in 2016. The series Abandoned India from his solo exhibition was accompanied by the publication of a photographic book of the same name (Transit Lounge 2016). His other publications comprise F5: Footscray in transition (2016), Chittagong Steel (2018), Lost and Found: the mansions of Bengal and Bangladesh (2019). His work has been further published in Owl Farm, Bharat Times, India Link and Photo Dust.