Composition No. 1

In the age of social media that allows us to share our daily life without direct contact, mobile phone cameras give us completely different ways to see, experience, and enjoy the world. Selfies have long become a cultural phenomenon that dominates the contemporary world, diversification of media and popularization of mobile phones changed photography from something that records to something that is shared and consumed in real time. As a matter of fact, such change is both an opportunity and threat to professional photographers. Today’s digital world has radically affected the topography of photography and challenged the status and capacity of professional photographers. The perception and attitude towards photography is changing drastically. After struggling to establish itself as an artistic genre, modern photography is now faced with finding a new definition in the 21st century online world.

Composition No. 1 is a collection of mobile phone photographs taken by two well-known Asian photographers Seung Wook Back and Rinko Kawauchi. This book is composed of messages and photographs exchanged between the two, who reunited for the first time in almost 10 years, to record their respective daily life for about 100 days. 

Specifications

Published by IANNBOOKS
2017

210 x 138 mm
106 pages
Softcover in a case