(OPB2 #052) Toshio Shibata: Lone Pine

In the summer of 2024, Toshio Shibata and Yoko Ikeda embarked on a classic California road trip. Lone Pine is limited to 500 numbered copies, each including a 5x7 inch original print that has been signed by the artist. Starting out in Los Angeles, they traveled up the Central Coast to Paso Robles before heading east to Nipton, Lone Pine, and the Mojave Desert. It was in Lone Pine, best known for its Western film history, that Shibata discovered a surprising link to his own boyhood days growing up in Tokyo:

“As a child in the 1950s and 1960s, I was fascinated by watching Western movies. It's fun to walk through the backstage towns now where those movie stars performed, and pick up images from the real world. With its blue skies and white mountain ridges, there is no boundary between the dream world and reality, and it’s hard to feel the passage of three-quarters of a century.”

Toshio Shibata is one of the most well-known and respected Japanese landscape photographers. His work is included in the permanent collections of museums around the world, including The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; TATE, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Tokyo Photographic Art Museum; and The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. ISBN: 978-1-59005-628-8

Hardcover, 6 x 8 1/2, 16 pages, 15 four-color plates, 1 original signed photograph.