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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.
.Sold out. Publisher's presentation : "Shōji Ueda (1913-2000), one of Japanese photography’s most remarkable figures, remained profoundly attached to his birthplace of Tottori, on the Sea of Japan, which he used as a backdrop for the vast majority of his work. Ueda was a sedentary adventurer, ceaselessly exploring the dunes that sculpted the landscape...
.Sold out.Publisher's presentation : "Session Press is pleased to announce Taratine, the first US monograph by acclaimed Japanese photographer Daisuke Yokota. Highly regarded for his technical and aesthetic kinships with the avant-garde Mono-ha movement of the ‘60s and with Provoke-era masters such as Daido Moriyama and Takuma Nakahira, Taratine...
Presentation by the artist : "Something unknown lurking in everyday life somehow stole into me. I shout inside my heart, swirling inside. It's like pieces of a puzzle, in disassembled shapes and incomprehensible."56 pages - Softcover Zen Foto Gallery, 2015 (500 copies) *Signed* New - Mint condition
45,00 €In Stock.Sold out.Text introducing the cats at the end of the book: "Kabo - Seal point Siamese (Adopted by the Fukase family in the mid 1960s. Lived to be 23.) In 1964, Fukase and Yoko moved into the Matsubara Danchi housing complex. As they began life as a newly married couple, Fukase decided one day that he wanted a pet cat. During a stroll near his apartment,...
.Sold out.Publisher's presentation : "The book Shikishima is a series of photographs taken during 1969-72 on the artist Tamiko Nishimura’s journeys around the Tohoku, Hokuriku, Kanto, Kansai, and Chugoku regions of Japan. To accompany the exhibition shikishima in Zen Foto Gallery in early 2014, Zen published a reprint of the 1973 edition of Shikishima,...
Presentation by the artist Tamiko Nishimura: "On a bitterly cold and rainy night a friend came to stay. Silence hung heavy in the fading light, and I felt a dread of the long oppressive night ahead. Staring directly at my friend I felt a kind of impatience, of repugnance, of annoyance. I could run away any time. I began to think I really shouldn’t be...
54,00 €In StockKumogakure Onsen / Reclusive Travels...
Presentation by the artist on the publisher's website : "There was a time in my late 20's when I had a desire to disappear from the plane of worldly affairs. Kumogakure has no direct translation in English. It means to be hidden by clouds, shrouded, invisible. No longer able to endure my world and the affairs that surrounded it, I spent two years...
42,00 €Out of stock.Sold out.Publisher's presentation: "After visiting Japan during the 70’s and 80’s, and after the disappointment to see that even regional cities had been developed to the point where they all resembled a mini-Tokyo, Gerry Johansson (b. 1945, Swedish) decided to focus his creative energy on capturing the environment surrounding the Japanese people, as...
Publisher presentation : "Akito Tsuda’s images originate from an instinctive drive where imprecisions, such as shadows or out-of-focus shots, are an important part of the narration. Akito participates in the life of the streets to document it in each of its daily actions and gestures.In Breath in, breath out Akito Tsuda photographs stray cats in Osaka and...
25,00 €Out of stockPoet Island is a journey in history, the history of a sanatorium - today facilities in dereliction - established on the Nagashima island, in Southern Japan where, in particular, the pre-war poet Kaijin Akashi was quarantined. Atsushi Fujiwara's images create a poetic atmosphere in this abandoned place, where nature takes slowly over again...We recommend...
44,00 €In StockIncipient Strangers (*signed*)
.Sold out!.Artist statement : "Siblings can be incipient strangers. Even siblings sharing the same blood can become distant and turn into strangers to each other as they each grow and forge their own path in life. Sometimes, we fail to hit it off with friends and eventually lose touch. But with family, no matter how brittle the relationship, it cannot be...
Gomma Books' presentation : "1975. Okinawa, Japan. The Vietnam War has just ended.Koza City is where the Kadena U.S. Air Force base is located.The B-52s that attacked North Vietnam took off from here. With the end of the war the city becomes the epicenter of a celebrative rush that lasts for a few years.The city experiences a momentary crazed and raucous...
49,00 €Out of stock.Sold out.This limited edition, offered in 3 different versions (TypeA and TypeB, plus an already sold out Special Edition), is the outcome of the latest of Daido Moriyama's "printing show". We are offering here the "red" version a room_TypeB; you will find the "blue" version a room_TypeA through the "Suggestions" tab. 44 pages - Softcover Akio Nagasawa,...
.Sold out.This limited edition, offered in 3 different versions (TypeA and TypeB, plus an already sold out Special Edition), is the outcome of the latest of Daido Moriyama's "printing show". We are offering here the "blue" version a room_TypeA; you will find the "red" version a room_TypeB through the "Suggestions" tab. 44 pages - Softcover Akio Nagasawa,...
80,00 €Out of stock.Sold out. Publisher's presentation: " Aomori scenes, etched to compelling effect on the frame. The work of photographer Ichiro Kojima (1924–1964), who was born in Aomori and spent his career photographing the natural features of the region and the traditions of its people, still harbors a soul-stirring power. During his short life of only thirty-nine...
120,00 €Out of stock.One copy available - Sold out by the publisher.Publisher's presentation: "Jens Liebchen's book System is a delight with a false bottom. The pictures show a magical winter wonderland, a deserted, pristine snowy landscape with beautifully sprouted trees, that emerge, individually or in groups, filigree, snow-covered and delicate green on the branches from...
75,00 €Out of stock.Sold out.Presentation 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...
Ground is a reference to the floors of the concert halls and clubs where Yusuke Yamatani spent a lot of time as a teenager and many years after that. These floors are strange surfaces covered in footsteps, alcohol spills, dirt, sweat and many other things mixed... These abstract motifs are inserted in the narration among th portraits of people met during...
30,00 €Out of stock.Copy sold.Excerpt from a text by T.J. Proechel for Ahorn Magazine : "Paul Graham’s work can hardly be connected by a single theme. [It] is somewhat elusive, often using the conventions of documentary to explore the hidden reality beyond the visible surface. Throughout his projects he attempts to establish an alternative iconography, to explore what is...
.Currently out of stock.A really beautiful book, dark and mysterious, that takes us to the places and landscapes, to the waters where the Japanese pilots of the "Kaiten" suicide torpedos were training at the end of the Pacific War. Pilots who were ready to give their lives by guiding these "human" torpedos right into the enemy warships.... Hitoshi Uemoto...
45,00 €Out of stock.Sold out.Excerpt from the artist's text in the book : "April 2011. Ishinomaki. Onagawa. Kesennuma. Rikuzentakata. All these places were just so quiet. I realized for the first time how quietness connotes fear. There were no sounds. In that quiet space, I saw a pair of pigeons-one black and one white. Looking at these pigeons, I thought of them as symbols...
.Last copy!.Presentation by the publisher: "Daisuke Yokota's latest work CORPUS features his nude photography for the first time. Yokota's unique visual expression mixing reality and fiction shows the human figures in black and white getting tangled with each other in a locked room. These very intimate images give us a strange feeling about life, death...
49,00 €Out of stock.Sold out.Presentation by the publisher: "Viviane Sassen's first photo book in Japan, LEXICON includes the series by the same title which was chosen by Massimiliano Gioni to be part of The Encyclopedic Palace at the 55th Venice Biennale (2013). The thirty-one images, encompassing iconic and more recent ones, wove together the themes recurring in her work:...
.ONE NEW copy available!.For Japan Sea, Shunji Dodo traveled the coast of the Japan Sea (delimited by China, the two Koreas, Russia and Japan) with an 8"x10" camera. Through this geographical and certainly historical point of entry, he is looking for a point of entry into the Japanese culture, by immersing the viewer in the daily life he witnessed,...
120,00 €Out of stockWandering at Midnight (Teikai)
.Sold out.Publisher's presentation: "TEIKAI (Wandering at midnight) is the second part of the TEIKAI trilogy in progress by Daisuke Yokota and AKINA.TEIKAI is a lonesome midnight drift through the outer edges of the city exploring the human obsession of reaching for the sky, circling around industrial areas and the construction sites' modern wasteland,...
Salaryman Project 2015 (*signed w/ print*)
.Sold out.Salaryman Project is an ongoing series by Bruno Quinquet, who publishes each year a business schedule with his images of working men in the streets of Tokyo. In this work, we discover the atmosphere and the evolution of the city around the year and the seasons. We follow the inhabitants and workers - always faceless for rights issues - in the...
.Sold out.10 curators from the photography and photobook world each choose 10 Japanese books they feel important in the history of the medium, and comment on their choices... with a lot of illustrations. Edited by Matthew Carson, Michael Lang, Russet Lederman and Olga Yatskevich. Published by "10×10 Photobooks" in association with ICP (International...
.Last copy.Artist presentation of the project: "As I held the camera with both hands, the «unique calmness» which exists in the Tsugaru region was gently pushing my back. Eleven years have passed since I started taking pictures for this series.(...)The moment I get focused on a subject, I feel like my body has disappeared. It is as if I myself have turned...
39,00 €Out of stock.Temporarily out of stock.Natural cotton - One-side print "L'Ascenseur Végétal Librairie Photo" - Long handles (to carry on the shoulder).To carry your photobooks around, or anything else, to avoid using plastic bags, and to represent for L'Ascenseur Végétal !
5,00 €In StockButterfly Had a Dream (*signé*)
.Sold out.A really beautiful book, at the same time a simple story and a complex story, that of a woman, a mother, and the apparent absence of a father. The difficult days, the neighborhood, the weekends or vacation at the sea... Atsushi Fujiwara makes with Butterfly Had a Dream the brilliant portrait of a woman.76 pages - Hardcover, no DJ Sokyu-sha, 2014...
Publisher's presentation : "Japan from the inside of a dreaming brain. Matters dissolves. Indomitable beasts roar, prisoners of a mirage. Everything enters into an incorporeal and alucinatory state.Everything changes and everything repeats itself, everything changes and everything repeats itself, everything changes and everything repeats itself."44 pages...
25,00 €In StockHow much can you carry ? (*signed*)
.Signed copies. (adapted from) Publisher's presentation: " The series How much can you carry ? was born out of the fascination of Floriane de Lassée for the lines of people carrying loads as large as they were diverse along the African roads. This series gradually extended to four continents, with about ten countries represented today (Rwanda , Ethiopia,...
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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.