LIME WORKS
Naoya Hatakeyama

Hardbound, 10" x 12", 119 pages
More than 100 color illustrations
2008, Seigensha
Afterword: Naoya Hatakeyama

From the Publisher:
The images in this book are of limestone quarries, lime works, and cement factories at some thirty locations scattered around Japan, ranging from Haikkido to Okinawa. The photographs of factories-sweeping panoramas often made at twilight or dawn-reveal an otherworldly mini-cityscape of oversized tubes and tunnels, all coated with a fine layer of white dust. This work was made between the years 1986 and 1994 and the first edition, published by Synergy of Tokyo in 1996, quickly went out-of-print. Amus Arts of Osaka has now reissued this Hatakeyama classic, complete with a new afterword by the artist.