Japanese photographer

With works by international photographers Michele TAGLIAFERRI, Lieko SHIGA, Bernardita MORELLO, Gregory HALPERN, Marten LANGE, Miren PASTOR, Ricardo CASES, Go ITAMI

With photobooks by SANDER, RENGER-PATZSCH, TÜLLMANN, RIMKUS, FREED, HASHIGUCHI, REINARTZ, CHARGESHEIMER, McBRIDE, RIEBESEHL, BORCHERT, ARNOLD and many more

The out-of-print catalog 'Land_Scope' presents a variety of ways in which photo artists such as BIALOBRZESKI, DEVLIN, EGGLESTON, GHIRRI, GÜTSCHOW, HÜTTE, JOHNE, KEETMAN, MOSSE, RIEBESEHL, RUFF, SHORE, SUGIMOTO approach the landscape.

This is the beginning set of the Nazraeli 'NZ Library' series, collected in a slipcase. Included are six signed photo volumes by Bevan DAVIES / John DIVOLA / Steve KAHN / Idris KHAN / Daidō MORIYAMA / John SCHOTT. Texts in English, limited to 350 copies!

The NZ-Library Set #2 consists of six signed hardcover photo volumes from Robbert FLICK / Kazuo KITAI / Philip MELNICK / John SCHOTT / Toshio SHIBATA / Mark STEINMETZ. In an extra made slipcase, richly illustrated, texts in English, Ltd. to 350 copies!

with photo books by Mark STEINMETZ, Anthony HERNANDEZ, Bevan DAVIES, Katy GRANNAN, Sage SOHIER & John HUMBLE, Sage SOHIER, Mark STEINMETZ

This Nazraeli 'NZ Library Set #4' consists of six signed hardcover photo volumes by Steve BANKS / Katy GRANNAN / Abelardo MORELL / Catherine OPIE / Mark STEINMETZ / Jack TEEMER, collected in a slipcase. All texts are in English, limited to 350 copies!

by von McLaren, Stephen & Bryan Formhals (eds.) - HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 30 x 22 x 4 cm., 320 pp., more than 500 images, text language: English. Thames & Hudson, 2014.

The volume 'Through the Looking Brain' examines one of the best and most comprehensive collections in the field of conceptual, mainly serial photography. Their spectrum ranges from the 1970s to the present day and includes major works and central groups.

The peroid 1965-1975 was marked by turbulence & transformation, also in the work of Japanese photograpers like Taiji ARITA, Eikoh HOSOE, Daido MORIYAMA, Masatoshi NAITO, Hajime SAWATARI, Issei SUDA, Yoshihiro TATSUKI, Shuji TERAYAMA and Katsumi WATANABE.

The out-of-print 'Vibrant Home' is a tender visual diary by Japanese photographer A-CHAN of the three places in which she has lived since 2000: Tokyo, Fujishiro and New York City. It contains color pictures she made wandering the streets with her camera.

In her book of photographs 'Empty Nests' Atsuko Murano ABALOS does not show the nothingness, but rather she confirms the existence of a bright and wonderful world that can be found in these 'empty nests'. The volume shows stork nests in the French Alsace.

Physicist Masanao ABE built an observatory with a view of Mount Fuji in the late 1920s. From there he held the clouds that surrounded the mountain for over 15 years. The motifs unintentionally fit into a iconographic tradition: the mountain and the cloud.

Silk on Cloth printed HC, 23 x 25 x 1,5 cm., 80 pp., 44 color ills., bilingual text:Japanese and English, Ltd. to 700 copies

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 26 x 24 x 1,5 cm., 120 pp., 106 b/w ills., bilingual texts: English / Japanese, Ltd. to 600 copies

HC (without dust jacket, as issued, 25,5 x 23 cm., 86 pp., 81 b/w ills., Japanese/English, Ltd. to 600 copies

The volume 'Leben und Tod' (Life and Death) contains object images by Nobuyoshi ARAKI, inspired by same named series by German photographer Juergen TELLER. The photos are haunting yet playful, creating a fascinating narrative alongside the original story.

HC with dust jacket, 18,5 x 24 x 21,5 cm. (9,5 x 7 in.), 136 pp., 85 color & duotone b/w ills., text language: English

The photo volume 'Araki' contains works from the last decades. Selected by Nobuyoshi ARAKI himself it represents the definitive retrospective of his work. Originally published as a limited edition, this volume delves deep into his typical pictorial world.

DVD (PAL, Dolby), 75 min., 1.33:1-Format (16:9 / 4:3), FSK: 16 Jahre, Japanese (with German subtitles)

Half-linen bound HC (with dust jacket), 20,5 x 26 x 3 cm., 368 pp, 319 color & b/w ills., bilingual text: English / German

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

Paperback ed. (no dust jacket, as issued), 26 x 18 cm., 80 pp., 38 b/w ills., Ltd. to 1,500 copies

The reissue of 'Sacchin' contains photos of street children taken in 1964 by the young Nobuyoshi ARAKI. Who exactly these children are and where they play is irrelevant - the narrative moment in these photos lies in the nostalgia that this series evokes.

This photo volume, 'Sentimental Journey 1971-2017' by Nobuyoshi ARAKI focuses on one theme of his extensive oeuvre: his wife Yoko. From their first meeting in 1968 until her death in 1990, she was his most important subject and essential to all his works.

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

HC with dust jacket, 25 x 34,5 x 2 cm., 96 pp., b/w ills., trilingual text: German / Japanese / English

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!

Re-edit, boxed set of prints, 18 x 13,5 x 5 cm., 242 pp., 119 b/w ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 1,000 copies

Re-edit, pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 22 x 30 x 1,5 cm., 84 pp., approx. 40 b/w ills., bilingual text: German / English, Ltd. to 300 copies

Museum ed.- Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 22 x 30 x 1,5 cm., 84 pp., approx. 40 b/w ills., bilingual text: German / English, Ltd. to 480 copies

Hand sewn pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 21,5 x 28 x 1 cm., 32 pp. (double gatefold page incl.), 62 b/w ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 1,000 copies

Japanese photographer Shinya ARIMOTO presents his Tokyo's night creatures parade. A small publication in black-and-white and limited to only 100 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

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 (no dust jacket, as issued), 17 x 24 x 1,5 cm., 160 pp., b/w & color ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 600 copies

In 'Conversations', Rémi Coignet explores in interviews the question of what role the photo book plays in the work of photographers, designers & publishers and how their titles are conceived. Two more volumes with interviews have been published until now.

The third volume in the series 'Conversations' by Remi Coignet also contains interviews with participants from the international photo scene on the role of the photo book in the work of photographers, designers & publishers, as well as their book design.

Five slipcased hardcover book with photo works by Roger BALLEN, Todd HIDO, Mayumi HOSOKURA, Edgar MARTINS & Esther TEICHMANN

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

The book 'A City Aglow' by Shunji DODO book is a warm, dizzyingly up-close and overwhelming portrait of Thailand's capital Bangkok. Made in medium 6x6 format, the black-and-white photographs were taken during numerous visits between the mid-1980s and 2019

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

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

The photo volume 'Life Eternal' by Takeshi DODO shows alldays living, portraits and nature in Kawakami, a village in Nara Prefecture, Japan, located at the headwaters of the Yoshino River. A portrait of an unyielding spirit that connects past and present.

'Exteriors: Annie Ernaux and Photography' accompanies an exhibition project by Lou Stoppard, which combines texts by the Nobel Prize winner with images by Harry CALLAHAN, Claude DITYVON, Daidō MORIYAMA, Issei SUDA, Henry WESSEL, Bernard Pierre WOLFF a.o.

FOAM Magazine #40 is dedicated to the life & legacy of Nobuyoshi ARAKI. Opening with his never before published portfolio qARADISE, it also presents essays about him and a selection of contemporary Japanese photographers influenced by the Japanese master.

Pb. with dust jacket, 24,5 x 29,5 x 2,5 cm. (10 x 11,5 x 1 in.), 288 pp., 218 b/w & color ills., 1,600 gr., text language: English

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.

In photo volume 'Red String' by Yoshikatsu FUJI, the thread that still connects the family even after the separation is taken up again. Designed as a double volume, it reassembles collected family images and thus reveals the lineage that was predetermined

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, 17 x 21 x 1,5 cm., 76 pp., 64 b/w ills., boilingual text: Japanese / English, Ltd. to 600 copies

HC, 25 x 23,5 cm., 100 pp., b/w ills.

HC, 24 x 28 cm., 74 pp., 61 b/w iIls., English, Ltd. to 600 copies

The photo volume 'Afterword' by Masahisa FUKASE consists of photos already used in 'Sasuke's Diary' from 'Sasuke, My Dear Cat' (1978). In the small pocket-sized print manuscript, instructions and numbering were written by the japanese photographer himself

New Edition of a classic photo volume. Masahisa FUKASE returned home regularly and used the family studio, the large-format 'Anthony View Camera' and the changing family set-up as the basis for the 'Family / Kazoku' series, first published in 1991.

The book 'Hibi' by Masasia FUKASE contains 'Street Photography' of a special kind. In 1992 the Japanese photographer painted prints showing metropolitan road surfaces marked by time with garish colors. As a painter he often referred to asphalt structures.

The volume 'Kill the Pig' by Masahisa FUKASE brings together two series, first shown in 1961. 'Kill the Pig', was taken in a slaughterhouse in Shibaura, Tokyo. 'Naked' shows the photographer himself and his then partner Yukiyo Kawakami in various poses.

'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.

The volume 'Private Scenes' by Masahisa FUKASE gathers for the first time the entire series of photographs taken in Europe (Paris, London, Brussels & Antwerp), in which we discover a new dimension of his work: that of the artist wrestling with his medium.

The reedit of a Japanese photobook classic! Coastal landscapes of Hokkaido serve as the backdrop for the deeply dark and impressionistic photographs of ominous flocks of crows in 'Ravens'. Masahisa FUKASE's mourning or an allegory of dark post-war Japan?

The volume 'Sasuke' includes emblematic photo series about the two cats of Masahisa FUKASE, Sasuke & Momoe. It combines unpublished images as well as photo icons, because his cats have already been the subject of several books. This is to be the last one.

The photo volume 'Wonderful Days' by Masahisa FUKASE contains about 30 b/w shots of Masahsa FUKASE's apartment with cats, interior and his wife Yoko. Without further information in the book, the date of the photos can be estimated between 1960s to 1980s.

This out-of-print photo volume, 'New York' by Masao GOZU, represents a re-release and contains early black-and-white photographs by the Japanese photographer from the 1970s that deal with urban life in the New York borough of Brooklyn.

SC (french binding) in soft case, 36,5 x 26 cm., 64 pp., color ills., Ltd. to 700 copies

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.

Pb., 21 x 27 x 0,5 cm., 32 pp., 25 color ills., text language: English (no text, only details)

The limited edition volume 'Yagi to toge' (Goat and thorns) by Japanese photographer Takashi HARA consists of 94 square b/w photographs in 'Shoji UEDA style'. The photographs were taken with a Holga camera, the result is very different from other cameras.

'Tohoku Zanzo' by Yoshiichi HARA is based on a 10-day trip, during which he took 360 photos - one every 2 minutes. These 'Afterimages of Tohoku' capture contrasting scenes and landscapes of a region where the old rural life has been displaced by modernity

The photo book 'Internal Notebook' by Miki HASEGAWA attempts to visualize invisible suffering and trauma of abused children from the perspective of a possible child abuser. It consists of portraits and materials that keep memories of their childhood alive

'We Have No Place to Be: 1980-1982' (Liverpool, London, Nuremberg, West Berlin, New York and Tokyo) - here in a newly edited and expanded edition - by Joji HASHIGUCHI remains widely regarded as one of his seminal early works alongside his debut 'Shisen'.

This photo limited-edition photo volume, 'Goze' by Japanese photographer Shoko HASHIMOTO offers an unprecedented look at a masterful series set in the 1970s that features a group of blind entertainers who told stories in exchange for food and shelter.

This photo compendium celebrates the fortieth anniversary of the Hasselblad Award and the influential work of all its winners to date. They are international artists, innovators, activists and legends who have shaped the modern history of photography.

SC in plastic bag, 15 x 21 x 1 cm., 28 pp., 25 color ills., English

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

HC (swiss binding, no dust jacket, as issued), 16,5 x 24 x 1,5 cm., 80 pp., b/w ills., English, Ltd. to 250 copies

HC (without dust jacket, as issued), 26,5 x 22,5 cm., 96 pp., 45 color ills., Japanese/English, Ltd. to 350 copies

Slipcased pb., 19 x 26 cm., 160 pp., 79 b/w ills., bilingual text: Japanese / English, Ltd. to 700 copies

In his out-of-print photographic volume 'A Song for Windows', Takashi HOMMA documents the primitive island where the author Tove Jansson and her partner spent their summer together. The out-of-print photographic volume is designed like a children's book.

The volume 'Casablanca Chandigarh: A Report on Modernization' reflects the urban reality in both metropolises, complemented by two photo essays by Yto BARRADA and Takashi HOMMA. It offers an expanded view of the potential and character of the modern city.

'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, 20 x 17,5 x 1 cm., 72 pp., 48 color ills., bilingual text: Japanese / English

The volume 'Looking Through: Le Corbusier Windows' by Japanese photographer Takashi HOMMA illustrates the role of windows as spaces rather than surfaces that connect the interior of a building and the surrounding landscape, or the private and the public.

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 25 x 35,5 x 1 cm., approx. 30 color ills., no text, Ltd. to 500 copies

The out-of-print catalog volume on Takashi HOMMA (*1962) contains series made up to 2019 - the last series was printed on a different paper. The famous series 'Tokyo Suburbia' is missing, but you can get a good insight into the photographer's development.

Board book with rounded edges. Die-cut cover with cover texts in black foil, 19 cm x 27 cm. 40 pages. 17 color plates. 22 quotes, text language: English. Ltd. to 500 numbered copies

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 24 x 31,5 x 2 cm., 112 pp., 62 color ills., gatefold pages, text language: English

In 'Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji', Takashi HOMMA explores his country's traditions of representation & depiction, and also offers a new encounter with his subject. Using pinhole cameras and digital technology, he forms haunting images of the mountain.

In his out-of-print photographic volume 'Tokyo and my Daughter', Takashi HOMMA documents his daughter from toddler to young girl through the everyday places in her life. With an incredible sense of closeness and distance, he creates a very special world.

In his 'Trails', Takashi HOMMA traces blood trails of some deer, considered sacred, that were released for shooting in Shiretoko National Park on the island of Hokkaido. The images take on calligraphic compositions: abstract and symbolic at the same time.

In his out-of-print photo volume 'Trails, Takashi HOMMA documents trails of deer hunting in the snow-covered mountains, following the trails of red blood in the white snow that lead up steep slopes and across a river. Each scene like an abstract painting.

This volume on Eikoh HOSOE shows photos, but also introduces the most important protagonists of the art of Japan after 1945. It also contains essays that offer new perspectives on the work, as well as reprints of a selection of previously published essays

HC with dust jacket, 21 x 21 x 1,5 cm., 96 pp., 43 b/w ills. (+36 b/w in small format from the Kamaitchi series on double page), trilingual: English, German, French

HC (no dust jacket, as issued) in slipcase, 37 x 27 x 2 cm., 90 pp., b/w ills., Japanese/English, Ltd. to 900 numbered copies

'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

Re-edit, HC with dust jacket, 25 x 33 x 2,5 cm., 112 pp., b/w ills., text language, English

Silkscreen printed HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 23 x 33 cm., 40 pp., 19 b/w ills., text language: English

The book 'Absentee' by Sayuri ICHIDA deals with the transience of existence and is an impressive representation of the feeling of detachment. By juxtaposing one's own body with everyday objects, the boundary between man and the things he has created blurs

HC with dust jacket, 20 x 17,5 x 1 cm., 72 pp., 48 color ills., bilingual text: Japanese / English

Linen bound HC with obi (no dust jacket, as issued), 27 x 19,5 x 3 cm., 260 pp., 251 b/w ills., bilingual: Japanese / English

SC, 25,5 x 36 cm., 64 pp., Ltd. to 1,000 copies