Mikiya Takimoto Works 1998-2023

Seigensha has published Mikiya Takimoto Works 1998-2023, a collection of Takimoto’s 25 years of works from 1998, when he went independent, to 2023. The book is in 2 parts, advertising photography and commercial film. Compiling the collection of photographs started by selecting about one tenth of Takimoto’s huge professional oeuvre, which traces the length and breadth of his achievements in advertising photography, artwork, commercials, and film. While his work photography does differ from purely artistic creation, Takimoto maintains consistency in the way he internally faces the photographic subject in both. “Graphic” is a careful selection of works like the Tokyo City Keiba (Horseracing) Twinkle Lady Cup, Toshimaen Pool, Tennensui (mineral water), and Pocari Sweat. “Commercial Film” includes Kirin Lager Beer, Daiwa House, Suntory Orangina, JR East, McDonald’s, and Sumitomo Mitsui Card. The book also collates in series works that he shot in series, and is devised in a way that makes their different universes readily comprehensible. This 600-page volume includes some 120 works of advertising photography and about 70 commercial film works, letting readers immerse themselves in a part of the path Takimoto has taken. 

SEIGENSHA Art Publishing, Inc. / 2024 02 29 / 596pages / 246x185x47mm / ¥9,000+tax / ISBN978-4-86152-927-6 / Art direction : Naonori Yago / Design : Tomoyo Uemura / Dialogue : Kenjiro Sano / Text : Yoshinao Yamada / Editor : Seiji Shinjo ( SEIGENSHA Art Publishing, Inc. )