Title: Hanabi
Photographer: Rinko Kawauchi
Date of publication: 2001, 2nd edition 2009
Place of Publication: Japan
Language: Japanese
Dimensions of book: 190 x 210mm
Number of pages: 64
Publisher: Little More Books
Editor: Masakazu Takei
ISBN: 978-4-89815-053-5
Retail price: 4000 yen
Summary of Project:
The second collection in Kawauchi’s trilogy of photo books depicts the photographer’s vision of a fireworks (hanabi) show. The breezes of summer nights, the footsteps of children running alongside a riverbank, clouds portending warm showers and the sweet smell of apple candy are at powerfully nostalgic, at once both beautiful and melancholy.