park kouen objet lacanian

books:

The Park
Kohei Yoshiyuki

Hatje Cantz, 2007

Kohei Yoshiyuki's nighttime photographs, taken with infrared film and flash in Japan's Shinjuku, Yoyogi and Aoyama Parks during the 1970s, capture the illicit sexual encounters, both heterosexual and homosexual, that frequently occurred there under the cloak of darkness. The Park's images not only reveal hidden sexual exploits, but also uncover many spectators ardently lurking in the darkness, waiting to join in--and quickly raise issues of ...

Lacanian Ink 30 - Objet a
Slavoj Zizek, Alain Badiou, ...

The Wooster Press, 2007

Is objet a, insofar as it lacks its mirror image, the vampiric object (vampires, as we know, do not generate their image in a mirror)? It may seem so: are vampires not versions of undead partial objects? However, perhaps, the exact opposite is more appropriate as an image of objet a: when we look at a thing directly, in reality, we don t see it - this it only appears when we look at the thing s mirror image, as if there is, in the mirror ...

The Park

1 review
Kohei Yoshiyuki

Hatje Cantz/Yossi Milo, 2007

Rapture after midnight.
This is by far one of the greatest photography books in my collection. The reproductions are beautiful. The layout is flawless, and the text is perfect. Every one of Yoshiyuki's photos from "The Park" are beautifully reproduced in this text. The size of the plates is perfect. I spent hours looking through the book over and over again. If you are interested in unique, erotic photography or infared ...