Retro-Futurism is Dave Kulesza's extended meditation on Japan's built environment, presenting the full photographic series that traces Metabolist architecture and everyday public life through an unflinching documentary lens.
About This Book
This book is the complete edition of Kulesza's Retro-Futurism photography series — a sustained visual study of Japan that goes well beyond the architectural trophy shot. At its centre is Japan's Metabolist movement, a mid-twentieth-century current that imagined cities as living organisms, built from interchangeable capsules and megastructures. Kulesza's camera engages these concrete utopias not as ruins or curiosities but as working environments still inhabited, still asserting their logic. Interwoven with the architectural photography are candid glimpses of Japanese public life, grounding the formal ambitions of Metabolism in the texture of the everyday. Essential viewing for anyone interested in Japanese architecture, urban photography, or the gap between architectural vision and lived reality.
Key Features
- 135 pages of architectural and documentary photography from Japan
- Photography and text by Dave Kulesza
- Published by Dave Kulesza
What You'll Discover
- The full suite of images from Kulesza's Retro-Futurism series, presented in greater depth than any prior iteration of the work
- Metabolist architecture photographed as living built fabric rather than historical monument
- The relationship between Japan's radical architectural ambitions and the quieter rhythms of public life that surround them
- An independent photographic voice working outside institutional publishing, with full authorial control over sequencing and presentation
About the Author
Dave Kulesza is the photographer and publisher behind the Retro-Futurism series, a body of work developed during time spent in Japan. He self-publishes under his own name, maintaining direct control over the production and distribution of his photography books.
Specifications
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 135
- Dimensions: 239 x 179 mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: [Details available upon request]
- Publisher: Dave Kulesza
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Architects and designers with an interest in Japanese Metabolism, photography collectors drawn to built-environment documentary work, and anyone who wants to understand the human context behind one of the twentieth century's most ambitious architectural movements.