Japan

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

Photo book 'Cotton Rose', is the result of a long-term project in a Japanese prefecture, where Jitka HANZLOVÁ visited people and ceremonies over two years. For her, the cotton rose is a symbol of the Japanese soul: fragile and persistent at the same time.

In 2019, Daido MORIYAMA spontaneously decided to publish photographs from Yokohama, the 2nd largest city in Japan, where he had had 'a good time' during the summer. The b/w material was enough for two volumes, 'Akai Kutsu' volume 1 & 2 in the same format.

The photographs in the book 'Hey! Hattori' by Yasushi MORI illustrate the love spun together by the Japanese photographer and his pet cat Hattori-kun, who fled Futaba, a town in Fukushima when the Great East Japan Earthquake devastated the region in 2011.

The photo volume 'Monochrome' contains a fine selection of very contrasting contemporary black and white photographs by Daido MORIYAMA, taken in the years between 2008 and 2012. The volume complements its simultaneously published counterpart 'Color'.

In his ongoing 'City Diary' project, Anders PETERSEN - awarded with the Dr.-Erich-Salomon-Award, DGPh - examines the less public side of urban life, in volumes #1 to #3, he photographed such different cities like Stockholm, Tokyo as well as St. Petersburg

Handsewn pb., 21,5 x 28 cm., 44 pp., 25 b/w ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 1,000 COPIES

The Anti-War book 'Kriegsfibel' (War primer) by Bertolt Brecht and Ruth Berlau processes press photos from the Second World War. Images of machines and gruesome scenes were given new captions, socialist-realist epigrams to give the scenes a primal meaning

The photo volume 'Rowing a Tetrapod' by Japanese photographer Fumi ISHINO follows an aleatoric structure and is about the distinction between the local & the foreign and how it blurs. The book creates an imaginary space that is prone to misinterpretation.

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

Pb. with obi belt (no dust jacket, as issued), 18 x 26 x 3,5 cm., 365 pp., 410 ills. (365 b/w ills., 45 ills. in color), text language: Japanese

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 23 x 25 x 1,5 cm., 128 pp., 122 color ills., text language: ? Ltd. to only 600 copies

In the book 'Tokyo Debugger', Shinya ARIMOTO intersperses photos of abandoned architectures as traces of past human activities, expanding the scope of his insect series - another world within Tokyo, dominated by the most successful creatives on the planet

'Masahisa FUKASE' introduces one of the most radical and original Japanese photographers of his generation, famous for 'The Solitude of Ravens'. It also includes lesser known works from his multi-layered corpus such as collages, self-portraits, Polaroids.

'Provoke. Between Protest and Performance ', accompanied the first exhibition as a catalog, which was shown through the magazine and the photographers involved - Daido MORIYAMA, Takuma NAKAHIRA, Yutaka TAKANASHI - and determines its historical relevance.

Slipcased HC, 30,5 x 38 x 2 cm. (12 x 15 in.), 48 pp., 40 duotone b/w ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 350 numbered copies

In this photo book, '78', with previously unpublished material, which was created between 1971 and 1983, Issei SUDA's unique & deeply urban vision unfolds in a series of contrasts and allusions. The contrasting black tones of his work became his trademark

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 18 x 26 x 0,5 cm., 12 pp., 19 color ills., text/subtitle language: Japanese - JAPANESE TEXT ONLY

'Theatre of Memory' by Eikoh HOSOE with photographs of Butoh dancers Tatsumi Hijikata (in 'Kamaitachi') as well as Kazuo Ohno ('Butterfly Dream') shows the ability to bring memories to life through the intersection of photography, dance theater & painting

The out-of-print photographic volume 'Japan' by prominent British photographer Michael KENNA is the result of intensive travels to Japan. Printed in Triton, the volume has a red cloth cover and is also surrounded by a Japanese folding slipcase.

PB. (no dust jacket, as issued), 29,5, 21 x 2 cm., 90 pp., b/w ills., bilingual: Japanese / English, Ltd. to 1,000 copies

Out-of-print monograph on William Eugene SMITH shows images from six series: 'Country Doctor', 'Spanish Village', 'Nurse Midwife', 'A Man of Mercy', 'Minamata', as well as 'Pittsburgh'. It contains texts by himself about his working methods and principles

This new edition of 'A Hunter' by Daido MORIYAMA features the photo book with a carefully researched and designed booklet including readable essays as well as an invaluable commentary in English regarding the book as a whole and each individual photograph

In his photo volume 'Modoru Okinawa' by Keizo KITAJIMA, the Japanese photographer portrays the seductively run-down Okinawa of the 1970s. He mainly wanted to express the relationship between photography and reality.

This paperback volume, 'Shomei Tomatsu. Japan 1952-1981' from 1984 is a very informative catalog on the work of the Japanese photographer due to its well-made, precise selection of black-and-white photos as well as the essays written in two languages.

In 'Slow Boat' Koji ONAKA compares sailing on a boat with his way of life & photography. The b/w photos were taken between 1984 and 1999. His fifth monograph in total was published in three editions, with the 2nd edition published as a faithful facsimile.

Gebundene Ausgabe mit Schutzumschlag, 16,5 x 24 x 1,5 cm., 200 S., 40 S/W-Aufnahmen (+9 grün eingefäbte Seiten) sowie 25 Farbaufnahmen, deutsch-sprachuger Text - HERE GERMAN TEXT ONLY!

This publication shows black & white protest photos from the 1960s in Japan. 'Agitators', however, is a more modern publication format of older photographic material, in which the photographer is involved. Kazuo KITAI played a decisive role in the design.

Portraits of some of the largest cities in the world. The metropolises conceived and built as vessels of human activity are transformed into monuments of silence: empty, sometimes eerie places for activity and relaxation that still have to take place.

'Ayu no Kaze', found in Japan's oldest volume of poetry, is a sailor's saying and roughly means 'wind of promise'. This photo book diary of longing and serenity alludes to intimate and at the same time universal changes in life.

HC, 29 x 19,5 cm., 111 pp.

SC, 23 x 29 cm., 216 pp., highly illustrated in color, English

In 'Sunset Memory' by Peter WATERSCHOOT, we find ourselves in a cinematographic dream world in colorful night photographs from neon blue to warm-toned colors. It's about the experience of the human species in a rapidly changing world. In English or French

HC with dust jacket, 27 x 34,5 x 2,5 cm. (8 x 13,5 x 1 inch.), 240 pp., 320 duotone b/w ills., text language: English

HC with dust jacket, 30,5 x 30,5 x cm., 56 pp., b/w ills., bilingual text: Japanese & English, Ltd. to 400 copies

Photo & text book 'Man redet immer zu viel' (You always talk too much) contains twelve interviews with Henri CARTIER-BRESSON from almost fifty years. In view of the flood of secondary literature, he provides authentic information about his life and work.

'Yashi no mi' by Miho YOKOCHI is a photo report about her travels to coastal cities in Japan - in the tradition of Tamiko NISHIMURA, who traveled to the Tohoku, Hokuriku, Kanto, Kansai and Chugoku in the 1970s and published her series as a photo book, too

This out-of-print photo Hysteric-Glamour-volume by MIkiko HARA contains color photographs taken with a 1930s camera without a viewfinder. Her motifs are from of everyday life, which highlight unique aspects and moods through composition and light color.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 24,5 x 30,5 cm., 80 pp., 66 color ills., English

Out-of-print photo book set 'Nocturnes' explores six different photographic journeys - by Tiane Doan na CHAMPASSAK, Gert JOCHEMS, Olivier PIN-FAT, Daisuke YOKOTA, Aaron McELROY and Esther VONPLON - into ‘the night’. Different papers for each photo essay.

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 28 x 23 x 1 cm., 32 pp., 28 b/w ills., bilingual texts: English / Japanese - Ltd. to 500 copies

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 13 x 18 1 cm., 88 pp., b/w ills., text language: Japanese, Ltd. to 500 copies

The monograph 'Small Biography' features photographs by Shoji UEDA from the 1930s to the 1990s, originally published in Camera Mainichi magazine between 1974 and 1985. The limited edition of 1000 copies was numbered with an ink stamp on the colophon page.

SC (no dust jacket, as issued), 24 x 29 cm., 10 pp., bilingual text: Japanese / English

Re-edit, HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 21 x 25 cm., 112 pp., col. ills, text language: English

The b/w photographs from the 1970s in 'Watarasegawa. Time goes by' by Mitsuru FUJITA show mountains, fields, roads and abandoned places in a place where a disaster occurred in a copper mine in 1880.- testimonies of a past struggle between nature and man.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 21 x 30 x 1,5 cm., 160 pp., 100 duotone b/w ills., text language: English (in an additional text booklet)

The color photographs in this small photo volume, 'Lucky Cat' by Japanese Koji ONAKA, are rather pictures of ordinary places and situations. But would you agree with me if I said: 'Isn't Koji ONAKA the only legitimate Japanese successor to Stephen SHORE'?