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EIKOH HOSOE
Barakei -- Killed by Roses. Tokyo: Shuei-sha, 1963. Folio (422 x 270mm). 43 black and white photographs, 4 colour illustrations on rice paper, 2 gatefolds. Complete with the publisher's printed card laid-in. Original illustrated cloth, original glassine dust-jacket, original printed cardboard slipcase (dust-jacket with one short tear, slipcase rubbed at extremities). Hosoe's and Mishima's signatures in black ink on the limitation leaf.
FIRST EDITION. COMPLETE WITH THE DUST-JACKET AND SLIPCASE. One of the most striking and best designed Japanese photobooks, Barakei consists of 'a series of extraordinary theatrical tableaux -- Japanese surrealism meets Italian mannerism... it has its imitators, but most of them are pale shadows of the original' (The Photobook). A VERY GOOD COPY of this fragile book. One of 1500 copies signed by Hosoe and Mishima, this one number 1474. The Book of 101 Books, pp.164-5; The Open Book, pp.194-5; The Photobook, vol. I, pp. 280-1.
Barakei -- Killed by Roses. Tokyo: Shuei-sha, 1963. Folio (422 x 270mm). 43 black and white photographs, 4 colour illustrations on rice paper, 2 gatefolds. Complete with the publisher's printed card laid-in. Original illustrated cloth, original glassine dust-jacket, original printed cardboard slipcase (dust-jacket with one short tear, slipcase rubbed at extremities). Hosoe's and Mishima's signatures in black ink on the limitation leaf.
FIRST EDITION. COMPLETE WITH THE DUST-JACKET AND SLIPCASE. One of the most striking and best designed Japanese photobooks, Barakei consists of 'a series of extraordinary theatrical tableaux -- Japanese surrealism meets Italian mannerism... it has its imitators, but most of them are pale shadows of the original' (The Photobook). A VERY GOOD COPY of this fragile book. One of 1500 copies signed by Hosoe and Mishima, this one number 1474. The Book of 101 Books, pp.164-5; The Open Book, pp.194-5; The Photobook, vol. I, pp. 280-1.
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