《昭和八十八年》(Showa 88)— 薄井一議


文 / 李威儀
每個民族都有往日情懷。我們總將現在的不如意,轉移到對舊時光的緬懷與嚮往。對現今的日本民族來說,昭和,即是在許多人腦海中迴旋不去的時代記憶。
起於西元1926年的昭和,整個時代長達了64年,目前在世界各種年號中,保持了最長時間的紀錄。昭和經歷了侵略、戰爭、原爆、重建、發展、繁榮,而後達到日本戰後於國際社會重新立足再起的風光,卻隨著時代的末了,出現了泡沫經濟,然後是日本失落的十年、二十年。


文 / 李威儀
每個民族都有往日情懷。我們總將現在的不如意,轉移到對舊時光的緬懷與嚮往。對現今的日本民族來說,昭和,即是在許多人腦海中迴旋不去的時代記憶。
起於西元1926年的昭和,整個時代長達了64年,目前在世界各種年號中,保持了最長時間的紀錄。昭和經歷了侵略、戰爭、原爆、重建、發展、繁榮,而後達到日本戰後於國際社會重新立足再起的風光,卻隨著時代的末了,出現了泡沫經濟,然後是日本失落的十年、二十年。
Voices of Photography 攝影之聲
Issue 3 : 走出現實 Walk out from reality
When the reality in the society becomes more surreal than the surreal and the imagined far more real than reality, sometimes we can’t help but wonder: what is the world we live in like? Photography used to be entrusted with the function of “recording the truths and reality”, how could it escape from the ironic world of illusionary images? This time, we will try and explore the real and the surreal in photography.
In this issue of Voices of Photography, Japanese artist Yumiko Utsu challenges the world that is filled with desires with colorful yet eccentric still-life collages; Daisuke Yokota uncovers everyday life memories from his personal photographs and transform them into vague images of sound similar to psychedelic music; Taiwanese artist Chen Shun-Chu combines ceramic tiles and old family photographs into a language of images, rewriting the journals of time deep inside his heart; French artists Thomas Rousset and Raphaël Verona create a stage of magical reality, where the real and the imaginary are interwoven together; Chinese photographer Shen Yang constructs imagined spaces and visual experiences of agitation using the contrast between disproportionate and displaced city monsters. In the Artist’s Showcase, we reviewed Photographer Chang Chao-Tang’s 1989 classic “Notes About the Non-images” and revisits his 1970-1980 notes that transcend reality and dreams, together with his philosophy about photography. The real surrealism, as it turns out, exists in the snapshots of the reality itself.

文 / 李威儀
在患有集體科技成癮症的時代,每天,我們被新推出的手機、相機、電腦、電視、隨身聽和其它酷炫科技吸引著,一季一季地期待著各種新科技的推出,為科技產品公司無止盡的「重大更新」叫好。被日新月益的產品所圍繞的我們,自然很少會去想一個掃興的問題 : 那些如今在瞬息間即遭淘汰的「舊」科技,被我們拋棄後究竟到哪裡去了 ?
攝影家 Pieter Hugo 提供了一個線索——西非的迦納(Ghana)。在今年出版的攝影集《Permanent Error》中,Hugo 紀錄了位在迦納專門處理「E-waste (電子垃圾)」的Agbogbloshie市場,一塊深受人類現代科技發展影響,卻在一片歡慶科技生活到來的巨大聲浪中遭到忽視的地方。


文 / 陳依秋