Koji Takiguchi. SOU. Out of Print. 1984 The Photographs in this book

The Photographs in this book are taken from a box of machine made work prints which were made for editing purposes during the design of the two original Living Room books

Keizo Kitajima was born in 1954 in Suzaka (Nagano Prefecture)

Sou delivers refutation to Barthes’ statement that “every photograph is [a] catastrophe

Through this intelligent arrangement

It gave me the confidence to communicate with people who would not normally

Koji Takiguchi. SOU. Out of Print. 1984 The Photographs in this bookOUT OF PRINT. Sou is perhaps one of the most concisely direct photo journals concerning family life and death that exists. To lay it bare, Sou begins as Takiguchis mother in law is dying of cancer, and very quickly we are introduced her husband whose health and sanity begins to crumble shortly after her death. We then witness a euphoria of love and romance resulting in the conception and birth of Takiguchis son. His beloved cat Ponta dies, followed by