BlueKenro Izu is a renowned Japanese photographer whose work has been exhibited and collected worldwide. Izu also received many prestigious awards and fellowships, including National Endowment for Arts, New York Foundation for Arts, and Guggenheim Fellowship. Since 1974, he has been traveling around the world, documenting and exploring the spirituality of sacred places across cultures. Blue features the Izu's shadowy and delicate female nudes reproduced

This book brings together all of his work for the very first time

dolls and found objects as unsettling props and mined architectural detail for abstract compositional elements

these visitations often involved the act of picture-making

we absorb and appreciate Campany's complex yet playful take on photography and its history

hotels and buildings in the Northeastern United States

bastion of late modernism

you don’t have it anymore”

and is limited to 1

a landmark project of classic American photography First published by Abrams in 1985 in conjunction with the groundbreaking exhibition at the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth

This analog photographic method holds the unique documentary aspects of photography

and performance set against the faded glamour of 1990s Los Angeles

photographing workers and street scenes