Takashi Homma
A song for windows1
Book
Editor, designer and publisher of Japanese artist and photographer Takashi Homma’s limited edition photo-book A song for windows.
Inspired by the short documentary Haru, yksinäisten saari (Haru, the Island of the Solitary) from 1998, Takashi Homma traveled from his hometown of Tokyo, the most populous metropolitan area in the world, to the remote island of Klovharun, located in the Pellinki archipelago, Finland. There he documented the primitive island and its single cabin where Swedish-speaking Finnish novelist Tove Jansson (author of the Moomin book series for children) and her life companion, Finnish illustrator Tuulikki Pietilä, spent nearly a quarter century of summers together.
Through Homma’s ever-curious lens, and with his partiality and liberality for architecture and places, one witnesses the evocative solitude and humble living of the hidden Scandinavian archipelagos, its cultural heritage and the significance an authors writings and characters can have in lives of all ages.
This book pays homage to late author Tove Jansson (1914-2001). All texts are written by Tove Jansson, taken from The Summer Book, first published in 1972. The Summer Book consists of twenty-two chapters in which each chapter is a standalone story. A song for windows gives special importance to one quote from each chapter and is numbered accordingly.
© 1972 Tove Jansson, Moomin Characters™
Printed as a board book for children, with rounded edges, on hard paperboard for rugged durability.
19 cm x 27 cm (7.5" x 10.6"). 40 pages. 16 color plates. 22 quotes. Laminated pages. Offset printing. Die-cut cover with cover texts in black foil. Special edition of 25 copies, numbered, in black/white printed fold-out poster, with signed inkjet print.
1 Shortlisted for the Photo- Text Award at Les Rencontres d'Arles, 2016.
Published by Libraryman, 2016.
