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[GERIBARA 5] YOSHIO TAKASE
Benjo -- Toilet. Tokyo: Fukushu-shudan, 1971. 4° (258 x 185mm). 104 black and white photographs. Original photo-illustrated wrappers (light wear to spine). Provenance: small Japanese stamp on verso of back cover.
FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST BOOK PUBLISHED BY THE GERIBARA 5, a small avant-garde group including Araki formed after the dissolution of Provoke. Toilet 'may be regarded as either a brilliant post-Duchampian exercise in neo-Dada camp, or a schoolboy scatological joke - or both' (The Photobook). The Photobook, p.296 ('three books that are ALMOST AS SOUGHT AFTER BY COLLECTORS AS THE THREE ISSUES OF PROVOKE').
Benjo -- Toilet. Tokyo: Fukushu-shudan, 1971. 4° (258 x 185mm). 104 black and white photographs. Original photo-illustrated wrappers (light wear to spine). Provenance: small Japanese stamp on verso of back cover.
FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST BOOK PUBLISHED BY THE GERIBARA 5, a small avant-garde group including Araki formed after the dissolution of Provoke. Toilet 'may be regarded as either a brilliant post-Duchampian exercise in neo-Dada camp, or a schoolboy scatological joke - or both' (The Photobook). The Photobook, p.296 ('three books that are ALMOST AS SOUGHT AFTER BY COLLECTORS AS THE THREE ISSUES OF PROVOKE').
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