Peter Granser – The Red-Crowned Crane & The End of the World

Author	Mari Kashiwagi
Publisher	Edition Taube
ISBN	9783689170066
Idea Code	250338

Both an artist’s book and a mini-exhibition, this fanfold publication features abstract photographs of cranes inspired by traditional Japanese screen painting. These are juxtaposed with a series of rising clouds of steam from a volcano at the “end of the world” – what the Ainu, the indigenous people of Hokkaido, call the volcanic region in the north of Japan. The area is also home to the red-crowned crane, which was once widespread but brought to the brink of extinction by humans in the 1920s. Granser’s images address this complex relationship between humans and nature. An insertion in the book features poems by Kashiwagi Mari, printed in Japanese and English.

28 , ills colour & bw, 24 x 32 cm, leporello, English

US$78.50