USED - Japanese Tattooing RANSHO - Masato Sudo

Japanese Tattooing RANSHO - The Photos of MASATO SUDO (First Edition).

Masato Sudo is a contemporary photographer. As an art student, Sudo focused his photographic work on long-haul trucks that had been lavishly decorated by their drivers. While working on one of these studies, Sudo came across a driver with designs on his body that surpassed those of his truck. Enamored with such individualized body expression, Sudo built his career as a contemporary photographer capturing the beauty of Japanese tattooing and the dynamic human canvas. In 1985, Sudo released Ransho: Japanese Tattooing, a one-hundred-and-forty-three-page photographic exploration of tebori, or hand tattooing, performed by Horiyoshi III, Horijin, and Horikin. In 2010, his work was featured in the exhibition Seeing Beauty at the Museum of Photographic Arts in Balboa Park in San Diego and can be found in collections worldwide, including the Muscarelle Museum and the Morikami Museum of Art.

By combining large-format photography with the advanced archival fresco pigment printing process, Masato Sudo generates not only stunning but also long-lasting studies of the inked form. Originating in Japan, this new printing technology draws on ancient innovations to create contemporary photographic images that are resistant to heat, light, and moisture. Just as traditional fresco techniques preserve Michelangelo’s pigments in the Sistine Chapel, the archival fresco pigment printing process enshrines Sudo’s photographs in a soft layer of plaster, protecting his photographs for centuries to come.

Specifications:
Condition of the book: No missing pages or tears, although there is some soiling and browning due to age.

Binding: Hardcover in hard decorated slipcase
Publisher: Shogakukan
Subject: Art and photography

Original first edition, 1985
Language: Japanese
ISBN: 4096802913
143 pages

Illustrator: Masato Sudo
Author: Masato Sudo
Theme: Japanese tattoo
Country of origin: Japan