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EIKOH HOSOE
Kamaitachi. Tokyo: Gendaishichosha, 1969. 33 black and white gatefold photographs. (One stub with a short, shallow crease.) Original printed cloth, spine blocked in blue, original printed paper-covered slipcase (without clear plastic dust-jacket, light wear to slipcase). Provenance: Hosoe's inscription on free endpaper dated '1971' -- recipient's blind stamp on free endpaper.
FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY HOSOE. A remarkably innovative book designed to enhance the ritual of viewing: each picture-page is a blue gatefold that must be unfolded to reveal the image, and carefully closed before proceeding to the next -- the intervening azure blue acting to reset the visual memory. Hosoe collaborated with the avant-garde dancer Hijikata on this evocation of the free spirit and its place in a land circumscribed by tradition. Preface by Shuzo Takiguchi, doyen of the Japanese photographic avant-garde. The Open Book, pp.248-9; The Photobook, pp.284-5 ('perfectly in accord with the modernity of the Provoke crowd').
Kamaitachi. Tokyo: Gendaishichosha, 1969. 33 black and white gatefold photographs. (One stub with a short, shallow crease.) Original printed cloth, spine blocked in blue, original printed paper-covered slipcase (without clear plastic dust-jacket, light wear to slipcase). Provenance: Hosoe's inscription on free endpaper dated '1971' -- recipient's blind stamp on free endpaper.
FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY HOSOE. A remarkably innovative book designed to enhance the ritual of viewing: each picture-page is a blue gatefold that must be unfolded to reveal the image, and carefully closed before proceeding to the next -- the intervening azure blue acting to reset the visual memory. Hosoe collaborated with the avant-garde dancer Hijikata on this evocation of the free spirit and its place in a land circumscribed by tradition. Preface by Shuzo Takiguchi, doyen of the Japanese photographic avant-garde. The Open Book, pp.248-9; The Photobook, pp.284-5 ('perfectly in accord with the modernity of the Provoke crowd').
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