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HC with dust jacket & obi, 26,5 x 26,5 x 3 cm., 324 pp., b/w ills., bilingual texts: Japanese / English

HC (without dust jacket, as issued), linen, 23 x 28,5 cm., 120 pp., 100 color ills., Japanese

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 31 x 21,5 x 2 cm., 176 pp., color ills., bilingual texts: Japanese / English

Special ed. Japanese cloth cover dyed with Koya-maki tree dye, includes a flyleaf made of Koya-washi paper, presented in a hand-crafted wooden box

HC with dust jacket, 41 x 28 x 2 cm., 80 pp., color ills., text language: English

Jin OHASHI is one of the most popular and important photographers in Japan today. This photo book, nominated for the Paris Photo Aperture Foundation Award 2013 is a fundamental work that reflects the life of an individual and not of society as a whole.

The photo volume 'Sight' by Yoko ASAKAI contains portraits of people from all over the world watching a film at home. The relationship between looking and being looked at is explored. The concentrated-portrait subjects seem to be unaware of the camera.

HC (without dust jacket, as issued), 29 x 27 cm., 100 pp., 58 color ills., English

SC (no dust jacket, as issued), 26 x 21 x 1,5 cm., 116 pp., color ills.

Life and death play a major role in this book, 'Aisatsu' (Greetings), not only in the choice of colors, but also in the comparison. Perhaps it is because the Japanese photographer Shinryo SAEKI is also a monk and ready to think about these basic questions

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 21,5 x 30 x 1,5 cm., 168 pp., color ills., bilingual text: Japanese / English

'Skyfish' by Japanese photographer Munemasa TAKAHASHI, born and still working in the metropolis of Tokyo, refers to his urgent desire to encounter nature. This photo book is interesting and understandable for everyone who's taking photographs in nature.

HC, 30 x 26 cm., 132 pp.

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 80 pp.,

SC, 15 x 18,5 cm., 320 pp., Japanese only!

The images in the out-of-print volume 'Good Luck China' show ERIC's interest in the people of China. The 6x7 images were taken throughout China, including places like Tibet and Inner Mongolia, as well as Beijing, which was preparing for the 2006 Olympics.

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued) in plastic folder, 22 x 27 x 1,5 cm., color ils., multilingual: Japanese, English, German and Kurdish

The out-of-print photographic volume 'Cell' by Taiji MATSUE gathers about eighty aerial shots of harmless, unsuspecting people, from which the Japanese photographer chose square sections.

Pb., 22,5 x 19 x 1,5 cm., 108 pp., b/w ills., text language: Japanese - JAPANESE TEXT ONLY!

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 26 x 24 x 3 cm., 280 pp., color ills., no text

SC (without dust jackte, as issued), 18 x 13 cm., 120 pp., more than 100 color & b/w ills., Japanese/English poem at the end.

Many of the photographs in 'Dance' deal with nature and there are different sections dedicated to the same subject, such as fire or flowers. 'Dance' is printed in large format on paper with a slightly rough texture, which goes extremely well with work.

2nd print run, HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 23 x 31 x 1,5 cm., 98 pp., color ills.,

HC with dust jacket, 27 x 19 x 3 cm., 436 pp., b/w ills., bilingual texts: Japanese / English

Re-edit, two slipcased pb.s, 23 x 26 cm., 280/152 pp., 228/103 ills., text language: Japanese - JAPANESE TEXT ONLY!

HC with dust jacket, 29,5 x 23 x 2 cm., 120 pp., color ills., text language: English