Bordelle by Yoshiko Kusano
A photographic journey through spaces for paid sex in Europe and Japan
© 2015, photo: Yoshiko Kusano
2015
Unlike most photographic works on prostitution which show the people themselves, Yoshiko’s photo essay focuses on the rooms. Photographed without artificial light, in brothels across Switzerland, Germany, Austria and Japan, the interiors reveal not only the clichés of what an erotically charged atmosphere should look like, but also reflect the tastes, origins and longings of the women, and more broadly the design sensibility prevalent in each respective country.
© 2015, photo: Yoshiko Kusano
© 2015, photo: Yoshiko Kusano
Thread-bound softcover, coloured edges, 112 p.,
156 × 212 mm
ISBN 978-3-85881-476-0
Published 2015 by Scheidegger & Spiess
CHF 39.00
Concept and editing:
Yoshiko Kusano, Juliane Wolski
Photography:
Yoshiko Kusano
Text:
Nadine Olonetzky
Typeface in use:
Akzidenz Grotesk by Berthold
Repro photography:
Barbara Hess × Pol