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Tad Wakamatsu (タッド若松), Ipy Girl Ipy (イッピーガールイッピー), 1970
Cover with Obi band back and front Ipy Girl Ipy was made during the travels of photographer Tad (Tadashiku) Wakamatsu with actress, model and singer Haruko Wanibuchi (鰐淵晴子). The first 40 pages show...
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Nico Jesse / André Maurois, Femmes de Paris (The Women of Paris), 1954
Nico Jesse / André Maurois, Femmes de Paris, first French edition, 1954, cover back and front Nico Jesse / André Maurois, Femmes de Paris, 1954 (French edition) This is one of those photobooks that...
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Daido Moriyama (森山大道), Japan: A Photo Theater (Nippon Gekijō Shashinchō,...
Cover back and front Japan: A Photo Theater, (Nippon Gekijō Shashinchō, にっぽん劇場写真帖) is Japanese photographer Daido Moriyama’s first book. It was published in 1968, the year after he had received the...
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First, Throw Out Verisimilitude – Thoughts on photography and language (Mazu...
Dust jacket back and front This book is often referred to as Provoke 4 & 5. Although the chapters are called provoke 1-5, the images are not from any previous Provoke publication, with the...
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Yutaka Takanashi, Koji Taki, Daido Moriyama, Takuma Nakahira, PROVOKE 3 –...
Cover back and front This is the third volume published by the legendary Japanese Provoke group. It is similar in size to issue two, but came with a fold-out cover, as seen below. Of all the Provoke...
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Takuma Nakahira, Daido Moriyama, Koji Taki, Yutaka Takanashi, PROVOKE 2 –...
Cover with Obi band, back and front This is the second volume published by the legendary Japanese Provoke group and the first to include Daido Moriyama. It is larger in format to the premiere issue,...
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Yutaka Takanashi, Koji Taki, Takuma Nakahira, PROVOKE 1 – Provocative...
Cover back and front The Japanese photographers Yutaka Takanashi and Takuma Nakahira together with writer Takahiko Okada and critic Koji Taki founded the Provoke group in 1968. Their first...
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Fosco Maraini, L’Isola delle pescatrici, 1960
Italian edition, dust jacket back and front In July 1954 Italian photographer Fosco Maraini travelled together with a small film crew to the small Japanese island of Hekura Hegura-jima (舳倉島). The...
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Francis Haar, Mermaid of Japan, 1954
Dust jacket back and front Mermaid of Japan is an early record of the Ama pearl divers of Hegura Island. Hungarian born photographer and filmmaker Francis Haar (Ferenc Haár) moved to Japan in the...
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写真集 長崎の証言 (Shashinshū: Nagasaki no shōgen) THE TESTIMONY OF NAGASAKI, 1970
Dust jacket back and front Shot by various photographers, this book is a heart-rending account of the utter devastation caused by the atomic bomb dropped by the USA on Nagasaki on the 9th of August...
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Keizo Kitajima (北島敬三), Shashin Tokkyubin [Tōkyō] / Photo-mail [Tokyo]...
Dust jacket with obi-band, front and back In 1976 Keizo Kitajima, Daido Moriyama, Seiji Kurata opened an independent gallery named CAMP in Tokyo’s Shinjuku district, along with several other...
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Guevara Shashinshu || Che (Che Guevara photo collection –ゲバラ写真集 ||チェ), 1969
Cover back and front Guevara Shashinshu || Che is an interesting publication in many ways. It was created by the members of the Japanese Provoke group under the pseudonym Buenos no Hi (The light of...
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Satoshi Fujiwara (藤原聡志), Code Unknown, 2015
Cover back and front Code Unknown is one of my photobook favourites from 2015. The title is inspired by Austrian director Peter Haneke’s movie Code inconnu: Récit incomplet de divers voyages (Code...
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Hajime Kimura (木村肇), Snowflakes Dog Man, 2016
Slipcase with books back, spine and front Japanese photographer 木村肇 Hajime Kimura’s Snowflakes Dog Man is the needle in the haystack of contemporary photobooks. This is Kimura’s visual reflection on...
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Eikoh Hosoe (細江英公), Embrace (Hoyo, 抱擁), 1971
Eikoh Hosoe, Embrace (Hoyo), Shashin Hyoronsha Publishing House, Tokyo, 1971, slipcase with belly-band (Obi) front and back Eikoh Hosoe’s fourth book Embrace (Hoyo – 抱擁) is a visual continuation of...
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Christer Strömholm, Poste Restante, 1967, 2016
Dust jacket back and front Christer Strömholm’s masterpiece Poste Restante opens with a text by Tor-Ivan Odulf based on an interview held in Paris in 1967. It is followed by a 100-page picture...
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Masahisa Fukase (深瀬昌久), Karasu (鴉, Ravens), 1986
Slipcase back and front Karasu (鴉,Ravens) is a journey into Japanese photographer Masahisa Fukase’s (深瀬昌久) melancholic soul. He began the project in the aftermath of his divorce in 1976, working on...
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Shōmei Tōmatsu 東松 照明, ＜11時02分＞ NAGASAKI, 1966
Shōmei Tōmatsu 東松 照明, ＜11時02分＞ Nagasaki, 1966 – slipcase In 1961 Shōmei Tōmatsu 東松 照明 began to photographically document Nagasaki, just over fifteen years after the devastation of the Japanese...
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Ken Ohara, ONE, 1970, 1998, 2005
Ken Ohara, ONE, 1970, Dust jacket back, spine and front Never judge a book by its cover: this book is the exception that proves the rule. Once seen, the cover of Ken Ohara’s book sticks firmly in...
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William Klein, Moscow, Mosca, Moskau, 1964 / 65
William Klein, Moscow editions from left to right: US edition by Crown Publishers “dummy”, Japanese edition by Zokeisha, Tokyo, German edition by Nannen Verlag, Italian edition by Silvana Editoriale...
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