April 12, 2024
Masato SETO "Binran" 2008 Photo Book SIGNED Taiwanese Betel Nut Girls
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Masato SETO "Binran" 2008 Photo Book SIGNED Taiwanese Betel Nut Girls Masato SETO, photographer. "Binran." Tokyo: Little More, 2008, HB, dj, obi, 20 cm x 30 cm, 60 pp, 48 color photos, essay "Glass Boats" by Seto in English. Masato Seto was born in Thailand to a Japanese father and Vietnamese Thai mother, moving to Fukushima, Japan at the age of 8. He studied photography at the Tokyo Shashin Senmon Gakko. Further studies were with Daido Moriyama, afterwards serving as an assistant to Masahisa Fukase. Seto's Living Room (Heya), published in 1996 won the prestigious Kimura Ihei Award. Binran is his second photo series in color. "A lot of Seto's photography involves people existing in a space they may or may not be comfortable in, be it a public park (Picnic), the train (Silent Mode), or their own living room (Living Room Tokyo), and how they negotiate that space, how they present themselves in what amounts to a static backdrop. Here, Seto takes this theme even further, presenting young women clad in very little, to the outsider some Asian version of the red lights of Amsterdam. Ostensibly they are there to sell betel nut, yet we never see any customers, leading us to wonder what exactly is being sold. The photographs are all at night, and the booths are lit in a way that makes them almost seem like Hollywood sets."--Japan Exposures
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