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9780500291672 English 0500291675 Founded in 2008, John Sypal s blog, Tokyo Camera Style, has a devoted and passionate international following and has inspired a network of similar blogs worldwide. In street portraits taken on the fly, we see Tokyo s film-camera enthusiasts posing with their favorite photographic equipment. The images not only catalog the amazing range of cameras used by the most obsessive photography geeks but also offer a glimpse into a street culture where the photograph means everything and the camera takes center stage. Now, 300 of Sypal s colorful photographs of weird and wonderful cameras and their creative owners have been gathered together in a one-of-a-kind book. Often taken from above, with the camera owners faces out of view, the images show telling details that might otherwise have been missed: the clothes, the jewelry, hands and feet, shoes and socks, customized camera straps, and other photography-related paraphernalia. Beyond the wonderful selection of rare, customized, and vintage analog camera makes, models, and lenses are portraits of the individual personalities who make up the avid street photography scene in Japan.", Proving that camera gear does matter, the Sartorialist of the camera world John Sypal introduces us to Tokyos trend-setting, style-conscious photography freaks. Following the success of his Tokyo Camera Style blog, which has a devoted and passionate international following, and has spawned a network of copycat blogs worldwide, the man who did it first and the man who does it best selects 300 of his choicest images and puts them between two covers. This fun take on the ever-popular street fashion phenomenon celebrates a uniquely Japanese tribe of camera obsessives for whom image-making means everything.
9780500291672 English 0500291675 Founded in 2008, John Sypal s blog, Tokyo Camera Style, has a devoted and passionate international following and has inspired a network of similar blogs worldwide. In street portraits taken on the fly, we see Tokyo s film-camera enthusiasts posing with their favorite photographic equipment. The images not only catalog the amazing range of cameras used by the most obsessive photography geeks but also offer a glimpse into a street culture where the photograph means everything and the camera takes center stage. Now, 300 of Sypal s colorful photographs of weird and wonderful cameras and their creative owners have been gathered together in a one-of-a-kind book. Often taken from above, with the camera owners faces out of view, the images show telling details that might otherwise have been missed: the clothes, the jewelry, hands and feet, shoes and socks, customized camera straps, and other photography-related paraphernalia. Beyond the wonderful selection of rare, customized, and vintage analog camera makes, models, and lenses are portraits of the individual personalities who make up the avid street photography scene in Japan.", Proving that camera gear does matter, the Sartorialist of the camera world John Sypal introduces us to Tokyos trend-setting, style-conscious photography freaks. Following the success of his Tokyo Camera Style blog, which has a devoted and passionate international following, and has spawned a network of copycat blogs worldwide, the man who did it first and the man who does it best selects 300 of his choicest images and puts them between two covers. This fun take on the ever-popular street fashion phenomenon celebrates a uniquely Japanese tribe of camera obsessives for whom image-making means everything.