Japan

SOLD! Here the collection 'Nobuyoshi ARAKI - The Works', consisting of 20 single volumes, is offered. The uniformly designed editions deal with different topics. Some volumes are extremely difficult to find today. A good opportunity!

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 26 x 18 x 1,5 cm., 130 pp., color ills, Japanese

The selection made for this book, 'Photographs 1951-2000', shows why Shomei TOMATSU is regarded by almost all living Japanese photographers - including the stars of the scene like Nobuyoshi ARAKI or Daido MORIYAMA - as 'godfather' of Japanese photography.

'Miyako Isiuchi. 1976-2005' features panels from 'Yokosuka Story', 'Apartment', 'Endless Night', '1.9.4.7', '1906 to the Skin', and 'Mother's', double-sided on thick accordion-folded paper. The text in English is by Machiel Botman.

Definitive re-edit, slipcased HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 25,5 x 27,5 x 2 cm., 152 pp., 141 b/w ills., bilingual text: Japanese / English. Ltd. to 500 copies

Pb., 21 x 30 x 2 cm. (8,5 x 12 x 1 inch.), 324 pp., 400 ills., bilingual text: Japanese / English

Namie and Iitate, two cities that were exposed to extreme radioactivity after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. Few returnees still live here. Thermal technology is used as a photographic medium to depict the landscapes in a surreal and inverted manner.

HC in thin slipcase, 30 x 26 cm., 72 pp., 58 color ills., 12 page booklet, an interview with Asako NARAHASHI by Akihito Yasumi (Japanese and English) titled 'Toward the Indefinite Time of Water's Edge'

ORIGINAL PACKAGING! Out-of-print 'Photo Express: Tokyo' set by Keizo KITAJIMA consists of twelve booklets in a cardboard slipcase, which the Japanese photographer published in 1979 on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name in his gallery 'Camp'.

My brother died in a car accident in 1999. His last girlfriend, Kaori, was Japanese. She kept on writing and sending photos for months after the accident. The search for her led me to Fukushima and the tsunami area. Shortlisted for First Book Award 2015.