• 鷹野隆大　IN MY ROOM - 蒼穹舎 - 文福
  • 鷹野隆大　IN MY ROOM - 蒼穹舎 - 文福
  • 鷹野隆大　IN MY ROOM - 蒼穹舎 - 文福
  • 鷹野隆大　IN MY ROOM - 蒼穹舎 - 文福
  • 鷹野隆大　IN MY ROOM - 蒼穹舎 - 文福
  • 鷹野隆大　IN MY ROOM - 蒼穹舎 - 文福
  • 鷹野隆大　IN MY ROOM - 蒼穹舎 - 文福
  • 鷹野隆大　IN MY ROOM - 蒼穹舎 - 文福
  • 鷹野隆大　IN MY ROOM - 蒼穹舎 - 文福
  • 鷹野隆大　IN MY ROOM - 蒼穹舎 - 文福
  • 鷹野隆大　IN MY ROOM - 蒼穹舎 - 文福
  • 鷹野隆大　IN MY ROOM - 蒼穹舎 - 文福
  • 鷹野隆大　IN MY ROOM - 蒼穹舎 - 文福
  • 鷹野隆大　IN MY ROOM - 蒼穹舎 - 文福
  • 鷹野隆大　IN MY ROOM - 蒼穹舎 - 文福
  • 鷹野隆大　IN MY ROOM - 蒼穹舎 - 文福
  • 鷹野隆大　IN MY ROOM - 蒼穹舎 - 文福
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鷹野隆大 / TAKANO Ryudai

Ryudai Takano IN MY ROOM

Ryudai Takano IN MY ROOM

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Ryudai Takano's "In My Room" is a photobook compiling a series of photographs of other people's bodies taken in the closed space of his own room, and is a representative work known for winning the 31st Kimura Ihei Award.

The images in this book consist of people invited to the artist's home and photographed with a 4x5 camera. While the male nude is the subject, it is characterized by avoiding direct exposure of genitalia and constructing the screen through framing and fragmentation of the body. This presents the body not merely as an object, but as a problem of gaze, distance, and perception. Despite the premise of intimacy, emotionality is carefully excluded from the screen, emphasizing instead the "unknowability of the other."

For Takano, this work is both an attempt to redefine the nude as an object of beauty and a question of how to visualize relationships with others. The body images generated in an everyday space deconstruct gender and sexuality stereotypes while revealing the perceptual framework of photography as a medium. This limited edition book is an important work that sharply presents the relationship between private space and photographic expression.

In 2026, YAMADA Book Publishing, Yamada Shashin Seihan's publishing division, released a new edition.

[Title] In My Room
[Publisher] Sokyusha
[Publication Date] March 17, 2005 (First edition limited to 550 copies)
[Pages] 90 pages
[Size] Approx. 215*295*13mm

[Format] Hardcover
[Language] Japanese, English
[Title Reading] In My Room
[Author/Editor] Ryudai Takano/Author, Michitaka Ota/Editor, Koichi Hara/Book Design
[Printing] Otsu Printing/Printing & Binding
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[Condition] Used, with edition number [7] Good
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Ryudai Takano (born 1963)

Born in Fukui Prefecture in 1963. Photographer.

After graduating from Waseda University with a degree in political science and economics in 1987, he began to actively present his work in the 1990s.

He develops photographic expressions with an intellectual structure, centered on themes such as sexuality, the body, and everyday life. He received the 31st Kimura Ihei Award in 2006 for his series of male nudes "In My Room," shot at his home. He also continues to explore the relationship between photography and perception through different approaches, such as his "Daily Photography" series, which continuously records daily snapshots, "Me and Them," portraits of himself and his subjects side by side, and a series capturing shadows in the city.

In 2010, he formed the "Photography Secessionist Group" with Risaku Suzuki, Taiji Matsue, Shino Kuraishi, and Minoru Shimizu, and was involved in critical practice concerning photographic expression. In 2025, the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum will host "Ryudai Takano Kasbaba - To Survive This Everyday Life -". Since then, he has continued to create works, hold exhibitions, and publish books, establishing himself as one of the most important artists in contemporary Japanese photography.

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