An iconic exhibition curated by The Face Magazine and held at Comme Des Garçons Tokyo in 1995.
Nearly Eternal
Norbert Schoerner & Steve Nakamura
Chance Publishing, imprint of Claire de Rouen Books (2016)
Hardcover, 30cm x 28cm
104 pages
Edition of 500
Printed in Japan
“All man’s efforts are for his mouth, yet his appetite is never satisfied.” (Ecclesiastes 6:7)
A new photography book about food. Haunting, beautiful and slightly humorous, Nearly Eternal traces a fine line between reality and fiction.
Negotiating different levels of artifice, the photographs challenge the assumed authenticity of the food book, inciting artificial desire in the viewer’s mind. Each photograph is a portrait of food in its perfect form – as display.
Norbert Schoerner is a photographer and filmmaker whose fashion campaigns have included Comme des Garçons and Prada; his editorial work has been seen in The Face, New York Times Magazine, Foam and many other publications. Schoerner’s work has been widely exhibited, including shows at White Cube and Chapman Fine Arts. He has previously published two monographs, The Order of Things (Phaidon, 2001) and Third Life (Violette Editions, 2012).
Steve Nakamura is an art director and designer. Born in 1973 in Los Angeles, California, he has lived and worked in Tokyo since 2001. A graduate of London’s Central Saint Martin’s College of Art and Design, Steve has created a wide body of work that has profoundly influenced pop culture in Japan and abroad. He is the art director for Laforet Harajuku’s annual campaign, Kyary Pamyu Pamyu’s album artwork, and numerous projects for Nike and Parco, among others.
‘Whether it’s a raw egg yolk gripped by levitating chopsticks or sugar magically sprinkling over a juicy grapefruit, the images in the new book “Nearly Eternal” are a surreal and slightly sinister take on food.’ – T Magazine/New York Times
‘An extremely clever take on the relationship between the eye and the mind – what draws us in and what causes desire?’ – Nowness
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MONOGRAPH:
Third Life
Norbert Schoerner
Violette Editions (2012)
Edited and produced by Robert Violette
Designed by Micha Weidmann
PLC, 160 pages
100 colour illustrations
24.7 x 30 cm (h x w, landscape)
ISBN 978-1-900828-38-3
Texts by Tom Morton and Geoff Cox
Third Life is the new monograph by photographer Norbert Schoerner. Assembled as a cinematic narrative, this book collects new and previously unseen work produced over the last seven years.
‘Documenting his travels across the world, Third Life explores the submergence of nature in today’s digi-era of mass culture.’ – Felicity Kinsella, iD Magazine
‘Photographer Norbert Schoerner speaks of Japan as a place where a different standard for artifice applies. He could, at the same time, be referring to his own view of the world as seen through the photographs of his new book Third Life. Accumulated over the past eight years, the images roughly divide into unashamedly digital snaps and technical large format analogue observations. Juxtapositions of images in the book induce a strange malaise as do interventions of imageless white pages. Mistakes and accidents are championed and corrupted digital files produce a sort of optical-static printed adjacent to healthy image counterparts. Reality and projected reality are inseparable.’ – Emma Reeves, AnOther Magazine
‘The photographer has an uncanny knack of capturing very precise moments in time, resulting in a highly charged series of images.’ – WallPaper Art