Max Zerrahn - Snake Legs (signed) Chinese photography

Max Zerrahn - Snake Legs (signed) Chinese photographyWhite Belt Publishing 2019 The title of Max Zerrahns first photo book stems from the Japanese proverb which describes the redundancy of Snake Legs and translates it to everyday situations. His photographs, all of which were taken in Japan, many in Tokyo, show us intimate and vivid details, the types of scenes that would typically go unnoticed in the rush of a city of 38 million inhabitants. Instead of Tokyo neon pop cliches, the sequence of images

each within strictly segregated subject fields: architecture

she began to photograph the houses in the short time she had before leaving

After the irreverent black and white snapshots of the early 1970s

and family members – had voted for Jimmy Carter the year preceding his visit

and the authorship of individual work is blurred

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neglected parks

which offer a lush

Faustine acts as a conduit or receptor

which covered the years 1978–2010

Alongside the photographs is a long written essay

whose enigmas seem to emerge independently of the deliberate hands that built it