野口里佳　Noguchi Rika　
 
創造の記録
Record of Creation

limited edition of 1,000 copies
80 pages, 36 black & white plates
cloth, embossed hardcover with tipped-in image
book design ; Katsuya Kato
size ; 230mm x 275mm x 17mm
roshin books 2017
ISBN 978-4-9907230-8-8
release date ; September 15,  2017
 
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今作品は野口里佳の超初期作品である「城を」「座標感覚」「創造の記録」の３部作に未発表作品の２点（無題）を加えて編集したものです。
これまでの野口の世界での活躍は誰も知るところですが、学生時代のこれらの写真を見ると、その作品を構成する感性の鋭さが既にその時に完成していたことがわかります。

天性ともいえる独特の構図の作り方、そしてプリントの美しさ、roshin booksではそれらの魅力を余すことなく写真集に詰め込みました。写真集の歴史における重要なマスターピースとなる１冊です。

roshin Books announces the publication of Rika Noguchi’s photobook “Record of Creation”. It is the ninth publication in roshin Books’ growing catalogue.
Rika Noguchi has been a distinguished photographer even in her student days, and after numerous publications and exhibitions has grown to become an artist representative of contemporary Japanese photography.
 
Noguchi’s technique of capturing the world with her distinctive, sharp perspective - often compared to “the eyes of a stranger” - leads her to turn everyday sights into views from a different world.
The moment fixated in a photograph, the light that flowed into its creation, even gravity’s effect on the depicted world: everything is present in Noguchi’s carefully arranged compositions.
 
roshin’s photobook “Record of Creation” collects Rika Noguchi’s first three publications, “Rescue”, “An Axis”, and “Record of Creation”, all of which were created during her student days. Even during this early period, her photography clearly demonstrated her rare talent as an artist. She then went on to win one photography award after another and gain international recognition.
 
For the series “Rescue”, Noguchi photographed rescue training manoeuvres held by firefighters. Themes of rescue and saving are revisited in Noguchi’s contemporary output, drawing a direct connection between this earliest of her published works and her recent series. In the series “An Axis”, Noguchi’s creative vision transform the world into a coordinate system into which people’s existence is arranged. The effect of these images is a sense of an eternal time that cannot be reconstructed again. For the series “Record of Creation”, Noguchi chose a construction site as the stage. Workers are present in each of the 6x6 photographs; the series appears as a collaborative effort between Noguchi and the workers on the construction site. Lastly, the book concludes with two previously unpublished photographs.
 
roshin Books collected these early works in a beautiful book, created with 1
great care and attention to binding and printing. “Record of Creation” is a masterpiece that will prove indispensable for future discussions about both ; Noguchi and Japanese photobook culture.

野口 里佳
 
1971 年埼玉県さいたま市生まれ。1994 年日本大学芸術学部写真学科卒業。大学在学中より写真 作品の制作を始め，これまで国内外の多数の美術館 ・ ギャラリーで展覧会を開催。現代美術の国際展 にも数多く参加している。2017 年より沖縄在住。
 
主な個展に「予感」丸亀市猪熊弦一郎現代美術館(香川，2001 年)，「飛ぶ夢を見た」原美術館(東京， 2004年)，「Somebodies」アイコンギャラリー(バーミンガム，2004年)，「光は未来に届く」IZU PHOTO MUSEUM(静岡，2011–2012 年)など。主なグループ展として「第 8 回シャルジャ・ビエンナーレ」(シャルジャ， アラブ首長国連邦，2007年)，「第55回カーネギー ・インターナショナル」(ピッツバーグ，2008–2009年)，「光 松本陽子 / 野口里佳 」国立新美術館 ( 東京 ,2 0 0 9 年 ) ，「 ヨコハマトリエンナーレ2011」 ( 神奈川 , 2011年)が挙げられる。国立近代美術館(東京)，国立国際美術館(大阪)，グッゲンハイム美術館(ニューヨーク)，ポンピドゥー・センター(パリ)などに作品が収蔵されている。

Noguchi Rika
 
Born 1971, Saitama, Japan. Noguchi graduated from the Department of Photography, College of Art at Nihon University in 1994. She began producing photography works while a student at university, and has held numerous exhibitions in museums and galleries both in Japan and overseas. Over the years, Noguchi has also participated in many international contemporary art exhibitions. Since 2017, she lives and works in Okinawa.
 
Major solo exhibitions include “a feeling of something happening”, Marugame Genichiro- Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa (2001) ; “I Dreamt of Flying”, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art,Tokyo (2004) ; “Somebodies”, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (2004) and “Light Reaching the Future”, IZU PHOTO MUSEUM, Shizuoka (2011–2012). Major group exhibitions include “Sharjah Biennial 8”, Sharjah (2007); “55th Carnegie International”, Pittsburgh (2008– 2009) ; “The Light: MATSUMOTO Yoko / NOGUCHI Rika”,The National Art Center,Tokyo (2009) and “YOKOHAMATRIENNALE 2011”,Yokohama (2011). Her artworks are included in collection of The National Museum of Art, Osaka ; The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York and the Pompidou Centre, Paris.