Takashi Homma: My Dog, Royce 1, 2005

For over a decade, Takashi Homma has turned his lens toward Tokyo’s suburban environs and urban center. His vision of Tokyo has navigated a finely nuanced line between sterility and sentimentality, presenting a sleek, contemporary vision of a postmodern megalopolis populated by a new generation of video-game aficionados and enervated fashionistas, but also the site of cutting-edge architectural experiments and quiet rooftop gardens. Homma deftly picks up the baton from earlier Japanese photographers such as Daido Moriyama, and crafts a contemporary portrait of the modern-day metropolis that is both cinematic and complex.

As Ivan Vartanian writes of the artist’s most current work, “Homma’s once dispassionate eye now shows a modicum of connectivity, of personal involvement. The photographer even inserts himself into his photographs and begins to address themes that are somewhat private: his studio, his desk, his dog, and even, as in his retitling of an earlier 2001 photograph Myself. The work My dog, Royce 1, 2005 chosen as the cover image for the artist’s monograph, is just such an example of this connectivity.”

This limited edition print coincided with the release of Takashi Homma: Tokyo (Aperture, 2008), the first Homma volume to be published for an international audience. The book compiles selections from each of his previously published titles about the city, including Tokyo Suburbia, his seminal work, now considered a contemporary classic.

Each limited-edition print is hand-packed with great care and ships from New York within 3–5 days.