Seen: 六七海岸 / 67 Coast
Who: 石垣裕 Hiroshi Ishigaki
Where: TheWhite, Jimbocho
When: August 21 - September 1, 2018 / 1:00 - 7:00pm (closed Sun. Mon.)
While Hitoshi Ishigaki’s usual subject matter is the streets of Tokyo, his latest show is a result of multiple trips to the beach in Kamakura with his Makina 67.
He told me that on his first visit he was dressed in jeans and a t-shirt- an outfit that when combined with a camera was conspicuous enough the beach to warrant verbal complaints. From then on he dressed for the occasion- shorts and a tank top. He noted that shooting an overly large camera probably helped his cause- the Makina’s cartoonish old-fashioned appearance is more of a novelty to beachgoers than a threat.
Shooting Acros 100, he snapped all the basic happenings of a beach in summer- but what I like most about Ishigaki’s unpretentious pictures is rather than one graphic decisive action, each frame offers multiple details to enjoy if one takes the time to investigate. The details, rendered beautifully by the Makina’s Nikkor lens, are the kinds of visual things that Friedlander might consider the “pleasures of good photographs”.