代表作「gazetteer」「CC」から 262 点を収載した、集大成の一冊。

地名収集という方法で制作を続けている松江泰治。『TAIJI MATSUE』から20年を経て刊行される新刊『gazetteerCC』（ギャゼティアCC）では、世界の砂漠や森、山脈、平原など、自然を収集した「gazetteer」と、都市を収集した 「CC」の両作品を、H275mm × W360mm の大きな判型に展開しています。影の生じない時間と方角を選び、空や地平線を排除して平面性を追求した写真は、「絶対ピント」と評される明瞭さで、写真の隅々にまで写り込んだ要素が等価に浮かび上がり、肉眼で捉えきれなかった細部が立ち現れます。 写真の本質を貫く独自の技法で制作された「gazetteer」「CC」シリーズから、大判カラーフィルムで撮影した262 点が収載された、決定版となる写真集です。

今回『gazetteerCC』の刊行を記念し、松江泰治の、刊行年代の異なる集大成2冊として、『gazetteerCC』（2023）＋『TAIJI MATSUE』（2003）を特別にセットでもお届け致します。

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On the occasion of the publication of《gazetteerCC》, we will offer《gazetteerCC》+《TAIJI MATSUE》 as a set as two culminations of Taiji Matsue's work from different eras.

"The photographs collected in 《gazetteerCC》 were digitally scanned and digitally printed from color negatives, which Taiji Matsue shot using an analog process between 2000 and 2017.

The artist has actually been working in color for quite a long time in addition to his black-and-white photography. However, the nature of the analog color printing process is such that printing color negatives onto photographic paper blurs the "absolute focus" (to be explained below) that is most essential to Matsue's work, so he refrained from presenting these works and waited for advances in digital technology. In 2008, digital scanning and printing technology of sufficient quality became available, and Matsue made a major shift toward color which continues to this day.［...]

《gazetteerCC》published in 2023, compiled with the addition of many previously unreleased works, consists of a total of 262 photographs numbered from 001 to 262, with "ALPS" (001) and "YOSEMITE" (262) as the entrance and exit, so to speak, and all the photographs arranged in pairs (even-numbered + odd-numbered). ［...]

"Excess of photography" is not a reference to the world's inundation with an overabundance of photographs. It means that a human being cannot look at a photograph and see it all at once in its entirety. This is because when we see a photograph, the act of looking inevitably casts a shadow on it, inevitably generating an invisible blind spot. In capturing sweeping views of cities and nature from high above, Taiji Matsue's photographs remind us of the impossibility of a true panoramic view. By doing so, they open up photography to the wealth of details as yet unseen."