Kou Inose is a photographer born in Saitama Prefecture in 1960. While studying at Osaka University of Arts, he learned photography from Seiryu Inoue and began developing his work in earnest from the 1980s onward. Known for spending long periods of time completing a single print, he has had limited opportunities to present his work, yet has gained devoted support for photographs of remarkable density.
Visions of Japan was published as part of the photobook series Visions of Japan by Korinsha Press. The book contains 40 black-and-white photographs taken between 1982 and 1994, along with a text by Toshiharu Ito titled “The Embryo of Emotion: Toward the Photographic World of Kou Inose.”
Figures, landscapes, fragments of bodies, and images from everyday life are composed with a quiet sense of tension through densely crafted darkroom prints. This is a valuable volume that brought together Inose’s work in the 1990s, despite the limited opportunities his photographs had to be shown.
Visions of Japan Kou Inose Korinsha Press, 1998 217 × 210 × 15 mm Good condition for its age
