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Gift / Mari Katayama ; editor Joyce Lam ; text Simon Baker, Mari Katayama.

$1!JG!;e-MO!KH(B. By: Material type: TextPublication details: [$1!D&!0a(B] : United Vagabonds, 2019. Publisher: Tokyo : United Vagabonds, 2019Copyright date: c2019Edition: First editionDescription: 133 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 30 cmContent type:
  • still image
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9784908600043
Contained works:
  • Katayama, Mari. Photographs. Selections
  • Lam, Joyce [editor.]
  • Baker, Simon [author of introduction, etc.]
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 22 779.2092 KAT
Summary: "Presenting the first book of Mari Katayama (b. 1987, Gunma, Japan), Gift is a retrospective of her past works and evolution as an artist. Born with only two fingers on her left hand and tibial hemimelia, a rare deficiency in which one leg bone is absent, Katayama amputated both her legs at the age of nine, and has since then transcend her condition by works she creates with her prosthetics, intricately embroidered objects and also self-portrait photography, using her own body as a living sculpture." -- Provided by publisher
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This book was shortlisted for the 2019 Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards, PhotoBook of the Year.

"Presenting the first book of Mari Katayama (b. 1987, Gunma, Japan), Gift is a retrospective of her past works and evolution as an artist. Born with only two fingers on her left hand and tibial hemimelia, a rare deficiency in which one leg bone is absent, Katayama amputated both her legs at the age of nine, and has since then transcend her condition by works she creates with her prosthetics, intricately embroidered objects and also self-portrait photography, using her own body as a living sculpture." -- Provided by publisher

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