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NOBUYOSHI ARAKI
Shashi Heno Tabi -- Journey Towards Photography. Tokyo: Asahi-sonorama, 1976. Octavo (173 x 115mm). Complete with publisher's mail-in card. Numerous black and white illustrations throughout, 14 colour photographs. Original printed card covers, original photo-illustrated dust-jacket (light spotting on endpapers and fore-edge). Provenance: Yutaka Takanashi (Araki's inscription and drawing in black marker on title).
FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY TO FELLOW PROVOKE FOUNDER YUTAKA TAKANASHI, inscribed by Araki with the characteristic drawing of an elephant with three 'trunks' sometimes interpreted as an alter ego. A remarkable association, linking two major figures in Japanese photography. Rare.
Shashi Heno Tabi -- Journey Towards Photography. Tokyo: Asahi-sonorama, 1976. Octavo (173 x 115mm). Complete with publisher's mail-in card. Numerous black and white illustrations throughout, 14 colour photographs. Original printed card covers, original photo-illustrated dust-jacket (light spotting on endpapers and fore-edge). Provenance: Yutaka Takanashi (Araki's inscription and drawing in black marker on title).
FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY TO FELLOW PROVOKE FOUNDER YUTAKA TAKANASHI, inscribed by Araki with the characteristic drawing of an elephant with three 'trunks' sometimes interpreted as an alter ego. A remarkable association, linking two major figures in Japanese photography. Rare.
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