Shinichiro Kobayashi／Book 'DAISHINBUTSU'

□ Artist
Shinichiro Kobayashi／小林伸一郎

□ Title
写真集「大神仏」

□ Dimensions
B5変形 238 × 188 × 14mm

□ Year
2023

□ Note
176 pages

□ Published
東京キララ社/Tokyo Kirara-sha

□ Description
日本全国を巡り、廃墟や寂れた建造物を独自の視線で撮り続けてきた小林伸一郎。長い年月による劣化や腐食でもたらされた廃墟に眠る美を記録し、廃墟ブームを築き上げたパイオニア的存在として知られています。写真家として幅広い層から絶大な支持を受け、これまでに平凡社準太陽賞、コニカ写真奨励賞、講談社出版文化賞を受賞。シャネル銀座ビルディング建設プロジェクトや東京ディズニーシー５周年記念写真集オフィシャルフォトグラファーとして活躍してきました。

2023年に刊行された写真集「大神仏」（東京キララ社）より、日本各地に点在するエキセントリックな巨大神仏の奇観を大公開いたします。寺社仏閣だけでなく、公共物や観光スポットとして、あるいは個人的な崇拝のために建造された摩訶不思議な大神仏には、人々の熱い信仰心が体現され、俗界と隔たれた異界をこの世に出現させています。小林の目線から捉えた、圧倒的なパワーと神秘の大神仏世界へ皆様を誘います。

Shinichiro Kobayashi has been travelling around Japan, photographing abandoned buildings and deserted structures from his unique perspective. He is known as a pioneer in documenting the beauty that lies in abandoned buildings that have deteriorated and corroded over the years, and is known as the founder of the abandoned building boom. He has received tremendous support from a wide range of people as a photographer and has been awarded the Heibonsha Sun Award second prize, the Konica Photography Encouragement Award and the Kodansha Publishing Culture Award. He has worked on the Chanel Ginza Building construction project and as the official photographer for Tokyo Disney Sea’s 5th anniversary photo book.

This book shows the eccentric giant Gods and Buddhas scattered all over Japan from the photographic collection ‘Daishinbutsu’ (Tokyo Kirara-sha), published in 2023. These mysterious giant Gods and Buddha statues, built not only as temples and shrines but also as public objects, tourist attractions or for personal worship, embody people’s passionate religious beliefs and create other worlds that are separated from the living world. The exhibition invites you to enter the universe of the Great Divine Gods and Buddhas, a place of overwhelming power and mystery as seen from Kobayashi’s point of view.