本書『地来矢(Ziraiya)』は、2008年にマッチアンドカンパニー(Match and Company)より刊行された、髙橋恭司の本格的な活動再開の契機のひとつとなった重要な一冊です。本作で髙橋は、35mmのライカ(Leica)を手に取り、写真家の鵜飼悠(Yu Ukai)との共同制作を行いました。二人が捉えたイメージは完全に混ざり合い、どちらがどの写真を撮影したのかというクレジットや境界線はいっさい提示されていません。さらに、被写体の「上下左右」という方向性すらも意図的に解体され、配置されています。700部限定。
In his most active period around 1990s, his expression to make us feel a borderline between this and another world greatly influenced younger followers. He used to use 8×10 negative films and finished original color prints at his darkroom. As he quit every commissioned work and hid himself nearly 10 years ago suddenly to avoid being made a darling in commercialism, Kyoji Takahashi was thought as one of legendary photographers in Japan in a way.
In 2008 he started his uninhibited activity again. One of such acts is this book ‘Ziraiya’. The book is composed of photographs by Takahashi and younger photographer, Yu Ukai. All photographs of the two with Leica are mixed in complete harmony and there is no guideline to show readers which is whose one. Besides, each photograph ignores up-down and right-left of subjects used to have cause of gravity.