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Japanese photography, and the Japanese edition of photography books, are still extremely dynamic today. Only a small part of the books published in Japan are available in bookstores around the world, but many photographers - like their elders Daido Moriyama and Nobuyoshi Araki who still publish with the same regularity - are today recognized and widely followed beyond Japan.
Examples include Rinko Kawauchi, Koji Onaka, Atsushi Fujiwara, Toshio Shibata, and more recently Daisuke Yokota and Kazuma Obara.
Japan There are 188 books.
Publisher's presentation : "My brother died in a car accident in 1999. His last girlfriend, Kaori, was Japanese. She kept on writing and sending photos for months after the accident. The search for Kaori led me to Fukushima and the tsunami area, working as a pretext to look for stories of loss and reconstruction across Japan. -- Vittorio...
38,00 €Out of stockPresentation by the artist: "Before the Second World War in Japan, dog fights were common. But, as the war worsened, so did the food situation, and consequently, owning a big dog was criticized. Some military policemen who were afraid that the dogs might escape and become strays if their cages were destroyed in an air raid, shot and killed many dogs....
28,00 €In StockPresentation by Editions du LIC: "Played represents the first solo project by Yoshi Kametani following his recent successful collaborations with Daisuke Yokota and IPG Project. A conceptual work in the form of a hybrid book (part photobook, part novella) based on events that take place in the criminal underworld of New York City. The protagonist, bored...
35,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation: "As a process …It was almost naturally simple accustoming myself to the idea of regarding thru a viewfinder every instant …even the non intimate as an erotic photograph… photography is defined by eroticism … -- KURAMA "An presentation of this book is available on the blog "who needs another photo blog".122 pages -...
35,00 €Out of stockLast Year's Photographs (*Limited*)
Presentation by Case Publishing: "Hidden away in a box labelled Last Year’s Photographs, 38 pictures Nobuyoshi Araki took between 1975 and 1976 spent a quiet life, to surface as a time capsule of the Japanese photographer’s early work.The photos - mostly snapshots of people in streets and trains, in stark black and white - capture private moments in...
99,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation : "Hidden away in a box labelled Last Year’s Photographs, 38 pictures Nobuyoshi Araki took between 1975 and 1976 spent a quiet life, to surface as a time capsule of the Japanese photographer’s early work.The photos - mostly snapshots of people in streets and trains, in stark black and white - capture private moments in Tokyo’s...
40,00 €In StockPublisher's presentation : "Hibi literally comprises a series of street photographs by renowned Japanese photographer Masahisa Fukase. Each of the black and white images painstakingly attend to the road’s surface – the worn road-markings, the fading lines and arrows eroded by the city’s innumerable inhabitants, a web of fissures in the asphalt. In 1992,...
50,00 €In Stock.Currently out of stock. Publisher's presentation: away from the familiar pictures of Japan "I know nothing about Japan. Even though, like everyone else, I have seen the familiar images of some exotic distant land, subjected to the avalanche of photos that make their way to us—almost through us—, and which are entirely a product of our Western culture....
39,00 €Out of stock.Last copy!. Publisher's presentation: "In a world rapidly turning towards the digital in every aspect, Takashi Arai is one of the world’s few remaining artists who choose to express their artistic vision with the daguerreotype silver plate photographic process. Due to the confines of a technique that does not allow image duplication or photographic...
95,00 €Out of stock.Sold out.Publisher's presentation : "The short-lived Japanese magazine Provoke is recognized as a major achievement in world photography of the postwar era, uniting the country’s most contentious examples of protest photography, vanguard fine art, and critical theory of the late 1960s and early 70s in only three issues overall. Provoke is accordingly...
Deeper Shades 02 TOKYO (*signed*)
.Copy sold.After NEW YORK and before PARIS and VIENNA, Andreas H. Bitesnich presented Deeper Shades #02 TOKYO released in 2012.Grainy images, in darker tones as indicated by the title of the series Deeper Shades, a personal journey, and a nice way to discover this city through its landmarks, and through the details perceived by the eye of the author.The...
Publisher's presentation : " Kazuma Ogaeri is a Moso photographer. He shoots illusion. In his work there is something of humanity and beauty of Akira Yoshimura's writings, something of the refined and frozen aesthetic of Kiyoshi Kurusawa in Shokuzai and Sogo Ishii in Le Labyrinthe des Rêves, something of Mirages d'été 「枇杷の樹の下で」 by Kazu Yusuki, something...
45,00 €In StockPresentation : "Tokyo is a visual journey through a city at once futuristic and obsolete, its visionary design worn out – like that of a past era. Johanasson uses photography to index the city, finding form and pragmatic order through accumulation and sequence, revealing the city's hidden, modular logic: lego-like segments, a basic square unit repeated...
75,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation: "This book documents the effects of the powerful earthquake that struck the northeastern coast of Japan in March of 2011, followed by the tsunami that overwhelmed the town of Otsuchi in the prefecture of Iwate. This fishing com-munity of 15,000 inhabitants was one of those most damaged by the succes-sive waves, which reached...
47,00 €In Stock.One unsigned copy available.Text from the back of the "Diorama" reproduction inserted in the book : "Since 2003, photographer Sohei Nishino has made nearly twenty diorama maps of various cities around the world. The artist spends months at a time to walk the streets of each city and photograph upwards of 10,000 exposures using 35mm film. After printing...
95,00 €Out of stockDaisuke Yokota - Color Photographs
Publisher's presentation : "Through means of darkroom experimentation, Daisuke Yokota layers sheets of unused large format color film and applies unorthodox developing methods before scanning the results. The mixing and manipulation of the film's chemicals produces vibrant and liquescent compositions that create forms reminiscent of fractal geometry and...
85,00 €Out of stock.PLEASE NOTE : Our signed copies have a tiny imperfection - Mint unsigned & sealed copies also available - Please do get in touch.Publisher's presentation : "Silent Histories is a testimony to the tragedy of indiscriminate bombing by US forces during the War in the Pacific, which killed 330,000 Japanese and injured 430,000 more. The figures are...
62,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation : "The book before you contains five of the seventeen essays by writer Shūji Terayama that make up Life on the Wrong Side of Town: Sports Edition, which orginally appeared as a series in the magazine Mondai Shosetsu (« Problem Novels », published by Tokuma Shoten) in 1975 and was then published as a single volume by Shinyosha in...
65,00 €Out of stockRed String - Limited Edition (*signed w/...
Presentation by CEIBA: "In Japan, legend has it that a man and a woman who have a predestined encounter have had each other’s little fingers tied together by an invisible red string since the time they were born. Unfortunately, the red string tying my parents together either came untied, broke, or perhaps it was never even tied to begin with. But if the...
195,00 €Out of stockRed String - Japanese Cover (*signed*)
.Sold out.Publisher's presentation: "In Japan, legend has it that a man and a woman who have a predestined encounter have had each other’s little fingers tied together by an invisible red string since the time they were born. Unfortunately, the red string tying my parents together either came untied, broke, or perhaps it was never even tied to begin with....
Red String - Western Cover (*signed*)
.Sold out.Publisher's presentation: "In Japan, legend has it that a man and a woman who have a predestined encounter have had each other’s little fingers tied together by an invisible red string since the time they were born. Unfortunately, the red string tying my parents together either came untied, broke, or perhaps it was never even tied to begin with....
.Very last copy!. Presentation by Hotshoe: "To celebrate the 10th anniversary of "Crude Metaphors", a prominent and celebrated section of HOTSHOE magazine since 2005, HOTSHOE is publishing a very special limited edition collectors box of five books featuring a selection of the most renowned photographers of today, including Roger Ballen, Todd Hido, Edgar...
65,00 €In Stock256 pages - Hardcover Akaaka, 2015 *Signed* New - Mint conditionPresentation by Ikueo Suzuki: "Returning from Osaka just after the new year, I was once again drawn into the whirlpool of energy in Tokyo. As I prepared for a trip in August, plans to publish this photobook were finalized an my goal became clearer than ever. The joy of meetings, the sorrow...
44,00 €Out of stock.Back in stock.Presentation by T&M Projects: "FISH-MAN is a collection of photographs taken by Tatsuki over the course of a year starting from May 2014 of the people and their lifestyles who live in the Hachinohe city, Aomori prefecture. For a previous project, Tatsuki had been traveling and photographing the Tohoku area (Northern part of Japan),...
65,00 €Out of stock.Currently unavailable.Presentation on the distributor's website: "Just after his first photobook Skyfish was published, the Great East Japan earthquake hit on March 11th, 2011. The official report confirmed over 15,000 deaths, and the damages and losses were unimaginable. Takahashi felt helpless, his camera and photography were utterly useless in front...
49,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation : "Hanezawa Garden is an illicit trail through a walled garden in Tokyo, between thick foliage, slender bamboo and semi-inhabited outhouses, their plastic roofs heavy with leaves, as if reclaimed by the jealous trees. The protagonist, like a detective, catalogues the garden obsessively, registering strange and peripheral details:...
60,00 €In StockFukushima, Fragments (*signed*)
Publisher's presentation : "March 11th, 2011. Following the earthquake that rocks the Pacific Coast of Tohoku, 30-meter waves devastate Japan's inner lands. Carrying along his Geiger counter, Kosuke Okahara walked through these wounded areas. His images allow us to enter a world crowded with ghosts, and to grasp a reality that lost its colors."Bilingual...
50,00 €Out of stock.Back in stock!.Publisher's presentation: "Sentimental Journey Continued is a book of photographs self-published by Nobuyoshi Araki in 1971 in a limited edition of 1,000 copies. Printed on the cover and spine is « 荒木経惟写真集２[Nobuyoshi Araki Photobook 2] » as it was his second self-published photography book excluding the rarely-seen, self-published Xerox...
45,00 €Out of stockPresentation by the artist Seiji Kurata on the publisher's website: "These photographs were taken during the years between 1998 and 2008 using six cameras made by four different manufacturers and films in four different formats. Zokei [created landscape], the title of this book, is derived from « paysagement » a notion presented by a French geographer in...
35,00 €In StockPresentation by Keizo Kitajima on the publisher's website: "IMAGE SHOP CAMP, an independent gallery, opened in 1976, at multi-tenant building located at 2 chome street in Tokyo’s Shinjuku district. Six graduates of « WORK SHOP Daido Moriyama class » including me were participating. This is where I showed my photos of Tokyo from January to December 1979,...
38,00 €Out of stock.Currently out of stock. Presentation by the artist on the publisher's website: "I took these photographs around 1963 and 1964 at Nagisa Hotel in Zushi, Nagisa Hotel in Shinagawa, and Chigasaki Beach. The subject was my girlfriend, her initials Y.O. Back then I worked at a design firm in Ginza, Tokyo, and I photographed them in seven or eight sessions we...
38,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation : "春爛漫 Haru Ranman, in Japanese, means « Spring in full bloom ». But there are two sides to every story. What happens in Tokyo in Spring? Underground is still where the ant farm is, a giant hub where everybody transits. Above the ground, the melody is different – and in the coming night, screens and fantasies mix to build a...
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Three photo books that are milestones in the history of Japanese photography
There is a wide array of photobooks to chose from, not an easy task! But some of the most important Japanese photography books include:
- Chizu / The Map by Kikuji Kawada (Bijutsu Shuppansha, 1965), a complex book published for the 20th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing, which traces, between abstraction and realism, the post-Japanese war and, among others, the very peculiar relationship with the United States.
- Kitarubeki kotoba no tame ni / For a Language to Come by Takuma Nakahira (Fudosha, 1970 and Osiris, 2010) and Daido Moriyama's Sashin yo Sayonara / Bye Bye Photography (Shashin Hyoron-sha, 1972) which reproduce some of the photographs published in Provoke and contrast completely with the pre-existing photographic language, leaving aside the technique, for the energy of the moment, and sometimes violence or banality.
- Karasu / Ravens / Solitude of Ravens by Masahisa Fukase, originally published in 1986 by Sokyusha, then Bedford Arts / Chronicle Books, 1991, then Rat Hole, 2008 and finally Mack, 2017. A book on the mourning of a relationship break up, on the return to his origins to find a meaning in life, and the raven as an omen, an augur, as a symbol of distress and melancholy.