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Heine, Achim / Rebekka Reuter / Ulrike Willingmann (eds) - HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 25,5 x 32,5 cm., 192 pp., 230 color ills., bilingual texts: German / English. Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2011.

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 30 x 24 x 2 cm., 248 pp., b/w ills., 2,480 gr., no text, Ltd. to 700 copies

'In Our Nature' by Takashi HOMMA, which has been out of print for a long time, differs from other works, which all show an urban environment in some form. These photographs here do not show pure nature as such, but rather what people understand by nature.

HC with dust jacket, 18,5 x 24 x 2,5 cm. (9,5 x 7 in.), 176 pp., 120 duotone b/w ills., English

In this book, 'Showa 35', photographer Hajime SAWATARI documents the 1960s in Japan in color as well as in black and white. Thematically, the finely printed volume includes demonstrations and burning houses as well as jazz scenes and children rocking...

2nd print run, pb. with acetate cover, 32 x 22,5 x 2 cm., 184 pp., color ills., no text,

Zen Foto Book #13. Two portraits of Tokyo in 1995 & 2010. After merely 15 years, the streets, the people, the textures have all completly changed. TAKEFUJI made two intense portraits, in which the city has metamorphosed from pleasure-dome to sunless sea.

The out-of-print photo volume 'Tsugaru' by Ichiro KOJIMA is a facsimile of the 1963 original and contains b/w photographs taken in and around the Tsugaru region: Shots of snow-covered landscapes and rural people practicing traditional customs and rituals.

For 'Ground', Yusuke YAMATANI photographed the floor of a music hall, printed out this life-size image and laid it back on the same floors before a concert began. The worn surface, stained by alcohol & sweat, is another form of photographic documentation.

In 'Shikawatari' (Deer Crossing), Chieko SHIRAISHI focuses a herd of deer. The shy animals roam through the snowy landscape of wintry Dōtō (Eastern Hokkaido), across frozen lakes and sparse forests. Both keep distance from another, and watching each other