Description
Snowflakes Dog Man – Hajime Kimura
Only One Copy
Signed – Signé
Limited edition – 62/69 handmade 2016
This book sat on our private shelf for a long time.
Ce livre est resté longtemps sur notre étagère privée.
Set of three boxed books: 1 unbound SC + 1 hand bound SC + 1 Japanese stab bound HC, Box w/ serigraphy on black cardboard, 19,5 cm. x 38,5 cm. x 2,5 cm., 222 pp on 2 different paper weights, 183 ills., 5 folds, bilingual text: Japanese / En
68 pages – Pictures: 108 + 68 + 32
The artist’s edition of Hajime KIMURA’s photo volume ‘Snowflakes Dog Man’ was created after Yumi Goto’s photo book workshop at Reminders Photography Stronghold in 2016. The trade edition of ‘Snowflakes Dog Man’ by Hajime KIMURA offered here is a faithful replica of the original – of which there were only 69 copies – , and only slightly smaller in size. The same three books, offset printed in a black cardboard with silkscreen.
An album takes me here, far, far away, I never ever know.
One snowy day I took a walk with a black dog which my father used to have.
I just followed him as he led. We came by a path vanishing into rice fields. As soon as I released his leash, he ran away into the snow, like a jet melting into white canvas. I didn’t know the path he and my father had walked many times. Some memories with my family were fading away since the last relative, my father, passed away. I was not getting along with my family, so I stayed away from them. When I was back home, he was about to die. After a while I found a family album on his shelf. With those pictures I ended up realizing that some memories couldn’t come to me, even what happened a few years ago. Day by day I wanted to know more about them, especially about my father. So I decided to visit the places he had been to. Some of them were from the album, the others were from my memories. In order to recreate and fill in my blank space even though it was not the truth.
The jet didn’t come back.
I followed his steps again, slowly, just slowly.” (© Hajime KIMURA)
