Impermanence

Kenro Izu

The Spirit Within

My appreciation of Izu as a photographer stems not only from my admiration of the technical quality of his printing, but also from my understanding of the vision that has guided his career as an artist. It is a vision of the beauty in all things, which he often seeks out in places where it is perhaps most fragile: a flower whose fullness lasts but days, if not only hours; an ancient temple in Angkor, decaying and broken with the passage of time and half-consumed by the nature around it; the rituals of death on the banks of the Ganges River in India. But his true goal is not just what is seen through the lens of the camera or on a printed piece of paper. It is a spiritual beauty that can only be experienced in a more abstract sense.

—Eikoh Hosoe, Long-time Friend and Mentor

Book Details

• Fifteen tipped-in platinum/palladium prints

• Three loose gum-bichromate over platinum/paladium prints presented in a hardbound folio

• Accompanying texts by Kenro Izu, Eikoh Hosoe, and Howard Greenberg

• Sixty pages bound, three pages loose, 12.5 x 16 inches

• Hand-signed by all collaborating artisans

• Letterpress printing and custom binding

• Handcrafted by Marquand Editions for Veritas Editions

• Housed in a custom Japanese-lacquer case from Sabae, Fukui, Japan

• Limited to an edition of 25 numbered copies, 12 lettered copies, and one Hors de Commerce

• Premium Edition designated as PE1-PE5, containing an additional print made by Kenro Izu, along with a custom artisan insignia on the lacquer case

Contact Veritas Editions for pricing and details.

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