Hans Silvester - Japon, photographie 13
  • Hans Silvester - Japan, photo 13
  • Hans Silvester - Japon, photographie 13

Hans Silvester - Japan, photo 13

Photographs by Hans Silvester who travelled through Japan for a year in 1968.

Photographs signed and numbered from 1 to 10 by the artist.

3 formats available : 40x60 cm | 60x90 cm | 100x150 cm

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The photographer has endeavoured to show Japan in all its aspects, far from the clichés. But the photo of this monk seated in front of the stone garden of the Ryoanji Zen temple in Kyoto wins Hans Silvester's favour: "After meditating for a long time with his eyes closed, facing the wall, he has turned, with his eyes open, towards the well raked gravel and, perfectly still, continues his meditation by letting the light invade him. Standing behind him, silent, I contemplate the absolute symmetry of serenity."

Several steps led Hans Silvester to discover the Empire of the Rising Sun. From a very young age, the photographer was already interested in Zen Buddhism and Japanese culture. Then, it was the images brought back in 1951 by the Swiss journalist Werner Bischof that struck him. The desire to go there slowly grew within him, and destiny held out its arms to him: in 1968, a supermarket chain offered him the project of taking photos in Japan to put in chocolate bars to build customer loyalty. Hans Silvester was asked to produce a "chocolate" book on the theme of Japan. He stayed there for a year and was able to experience the country intensively. Outside the cities, the photographer likes to say that he was an object of curiosity. Not being able to speak the language, he carried around little papers written in Japanese in his pockets, on which were written, among other things, "I am as clean as a Japanese" when negotiating room and board. In one year, Hans Silvester was able to capture the children of Tokyo in a very modern and graphic setting, as well as the Zen temples of Ryoanji and the helmeted demonstrations of Japanese students in 1968. 

Retour De Voyage admires this photograph which cannot leave one indifferent. The central black silhouette contrasts with the grains of sand that one could almost count. The codes become blurred, is it a photo? a drawing? The borders seem porous but the emotion is there. 

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