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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

Pb., 20 x 29 cm., 50 pp., 26 b/w ills., no text, Ltd. to 700 copies

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'.

Boxed pb., 21 x 23 cm., o.pp., color ills., text language: English

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

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.

'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

In 'Eternal Chase' neither composition, exposure nor focal length are in focus, these are secondary. Tamiko NISHIMURA leaves it up to the object to show itself. In contrast to the spiritual expectation at the selection, she took a lot of time to fix it.

The photos in 'At Dusk' by Miyuki OKUYAMA give insight into her inner life and her states of mind as she moved from one culture to another. The images are inspired by fragmented childhood memories, long repressed fears, and vaguely remembered nightmares.

On behalf of the customer, we offer 35 different numbers from the legendary RECORD series by photographer Daido MORIYAMA. A third of it is SIGNED, some volumes have long been out of print. The rare opportunity to acquire a coherent episode all at once!

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

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 10,5 x 8 cm., 28 pp., 24 b/w & color ills., Ltd. to 120 numbered copies

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.

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)

In 'Architecture' continues Hiroshi SUGIMOTO's long-term research into the passage of time and history. Due to their blurring and lack of color, he reduces the buildings to the essentials and question the monuments of human inventiveness & industrial age.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 23 x 30 x 6 cm., o.pp., b/w ills., Ltd. to self made 200 copies

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

Photo book 'Dioramas' by Hiroshi SUGIMOTO tells a story about the cycle of life, death and rebirth. He achieves the lively effect of the scenes in the series that began with his move from Tokyo (1976) to New York until 2012 through an elaborate production

This photo book, 'Shoji Ueda', which has been out of print for a long time, is the first monograph on the renowned Japanese photographer. The trilingual edition contains a large number of previously unpublished photographs in black and white as well as in

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

In 'Photosynthesis. 1978-1980', Keiichi TAHARA explores the relationship between light and the human body. He experimented with various types of light and environment, in Paris, Rome, New York, Iceland, Bordeaux, Tokyo, Kujuu-Kurihama and Akikawa-Keikoku.

Softcover (no dust jacket, as issued), 18 x 24 x1 cm., 80 pp., approx 53 b/w ills., afterword and history of Chikuho, in Japanese only.

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

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

HC, 23 x 28 x 3 cm., 264 pp., b/w ills., text language: English

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), (7 3/4 x 11 inches), 104 pp., color & b/w ills., no text

Unbound loose sheets, 30 x 39 cm., 48 pp., Ltd. to 250 SIGNED copies

'Miuramisaki' is a narrow, large-format photo book in a beautiful slipcase. The six b/w photographs show the snake that the Japanese master photographer Issei SUDA encountered at home in 1975 and that has thus found its way into the world of photo books.

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.

Out-of-print, cinematographically designed book 'Sheets' by Rinko KAWAUCHI consists of sequences of randomly selected contact sheets. The result is a resurrection of moments in her personal history that have been immortalized in some of her publications.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 22,5 x 25,5 x 1,5 cm., 86 pp., bilingual text: Japanese / English, Ltd. to 350 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.

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 30 x 20,5 cm., 44 pp., color ills., text language: English

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 31,5 x 22 x 1,5 cm., 88 pp., 57 color ills., text language:

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

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.

SC (no dust jacket, as issued), 21 x 30 cm., 144 pp., color ills., with biographical notes, text language: English, Ltd. to only 250 copies

'Laying Stones' is in sharp contrast to Munemasa TAKAHASHI's debut photo book. It is dedicated to a good friend who suddenly passed away in 2014 by suicide. The artist book is lovingly & personally designed and consists only of black and white photographs

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 27,5 x 20,5 x 1,5 cm., 18 pp., color 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

This photo book, 'Bonsai', is a very beautiful and elaborately designed artist's book, whose slipcase is covered with silky Japan paper. By manipulating the backgrounds & perspectives the series of the Japanese Masao YAMAMOTO gets a surrealistic touch.

This photo volume, 'From Yokosuka' by Miyako ISHIUCHI, marks the final episode of her b/w 'Yokosuka' series, which became the subject of her first published work when she returned in 1976 to process her experiences in the city in the form of a photograph.

The catalog 'On the Road' was published to accompany the major MORIYAMA retrospective in Osaka and brings together pictorial icons in chronological order. According to connoisseurs of Japanese photography, it is among Daido MORIYAMA's best publications.

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

Screen-printed Box (containing 5 monographic SC + photographs from each photographer), 21,5 x 30,5 x 5 cm., o.pp., photographs: 20,32 x 15,24 cm., Ltd. to 10 numbered & signed copies. Oodee

by Michael Buhrs and Ingvild Goetz (eds.) - Engl. ed., HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 30 x 23 cm., 224 pp., 256 ills., text language: English - German ed. also to pre-order

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.

HC, 22,5 x 26 cm., 88 pp., 82 color ills.

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

For 'Scrap Book', Hajime KIMURA rearranged his 'Kodama' material and enriched it with photographs, annotations as well as illustrations. The book consists of raw image clippings and sketches, conveying his unique approach to the rare Matagi tribe.

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

Eiji OHASHI's long-awaited photo book from his 'Roadside Lights' series of vending machines in winter landscapes. The volume published here as Leporello is a continuation of the highly acclaimed photo series of vending machines along the streets of Japan.

The out-of-print photographic volume 'The Last Cosmology / Rasuto kosumoroji' reveals the preoccupation Kikuji KAWADA with the cosmos. The Japanese photographed abnormal and calamitous weather conditions, captured between 1980 and 2000.

Pb. with obi belt (no dust jacket, as issued), 18 x 26 x 3,5 cm., 484 pp. (334 b/w ills., 150 ils. in color), text language: Japanese

re-dit 2013

The xtremely rare photo volume 'Underground Generation' contains works by Daido MORIYAMA, Eikoh HOSOE, Jun MORINAGA, Masahisa FUKASE, Kishin SHINOYAMA and Kenji ISHIGURO who were in 1968 out and about with their cameras. in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo.

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.

'Small Things in Silence' offers a perspective on 20 years of the career Masao YAMAMOTO and contains images from each of his major projects - 'Box of Ku', 'Nakazora', 'Kawa' and 'Shizuka' - as well as images from some of his original photo installations.

HC with dust jacket, 18 x 23 x 1,5 cm., 96 pp., 44 color full-paged ills., minimal bilingual text: English / Japanese.

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 23,5 x 20,5 x 1 cm., 72 pp., 54 color ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 700 copies

Pb., ca. 20 x 25 m., o.pp., color ills.,

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

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.

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.

Linen bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 22 x 25 x 1,5 cxm., 120 pp., 60 b/w ills., text language: English

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

Slipcased linen bound HC with tipped-in photograph (no dust jacket, as issued), 18,5 x 26 x 2 cm., 84 pp., b/w ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 1,000 copies

'The Dog in France' by Japanese photographer Koji ONAKA, is a retrospective of his time in self-chosen exile in Paris. The diagonals in the ONAKA's b/w shots indicate disorientation. And the parallels to the great photographer, Daido MORIYAMA, are obvious

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

Linen bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 25,5 x 24,5 x 1,5 cm., 72 pp., 55 b/w ills.,

2 x HC, 23 x 30 x 6 cm., o.pp., each of both titles is ltd. to 100 signed & numbered copies

Re-edit, clipped Pb. with linen dust jacket, 21 x 30 x 1 cm., 47 pp. (many foldout pages!), 24 b/w ills., bilingual text: Japanese / English, Ltd. to 350 copies

Risograph printed pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 42 x 30 cm., o.pp. b/w ills., no text, Ltd. to 200 copies

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 18 x 26,5 x 2 cm., 95 pp. +7 foldout pp., color ills., small bilingual texts: English / Japanese

Hand sewn pb., 21,5 x 28 x 0,5 cm., 32 pp. (double gatefold page incl.), 62 b/w ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 750 copies (three covers, 250 each)

Slipcased Set of 2 Pb., 18,5 x 26 x 2,5 / 1 (text) cm., 168 (+78) pp., b/w & color ills

'Toshi fuukei zukan/City Landscapes Photo Book. 1964-1982' contains magazine works by Takuma NAKAHIRA. On display are his works published in major photography magazines between 1964 and 1982. An aid to understanding the golden age of Japanese photography.

Re-edit, pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 11,5 x 17,5 x 1,5 cm., 192 pp., b/w ills., text language: English

'No more no less' is an exciting photo book project. The edition by 'the (M) éditions' is very different from the results of two other publishers with identical source material, which was based on a found, illustrated manuscript on photographic portraits.

Re-edit, slipcased HC with pb.-booklet, 23 x 30,8 x 3 cm., 220 pp. (book) + 56 pp. (booklet), bilingual text: English (booklet) / Japanese (hardcover), Ltd. to 700 numbered & signed copies

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.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 24.5 x 18 x 1,5 cm., 72 pp., 48 color ills., bilingual texts: English / Japanese

The facsimile editions of 'Provoke', one of the most influential magazines of the 1960s by the photographers MORIYAMA, NAKAHIRA and TAKANASHI, have been republished here in their original size as well as the texts by Takahiko Okada in English and Chinese.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 27 x 29 x 6 cm., 516 pp., 3,000 ills., text language: English. Steidl, 2017.

Slipcased HC, 29 x 29 cm., 126 pp., 80 color & b/w ills., bilingual text: Japanese & English, Ltd. to 500 copies

This photo book - as 'Jiazazhi' edition - is the result of a special editorial project. The source material, which was identical for three different publishers, was based on a found, illustrated manuscript dealing with the rules for photographic portraits

Hiroshi SUGIMOTO has been traveling around the world for more than 30 years to photograph seas for the 'Seascapes' series, capturing the sea at a time of absolute calm. All photos are identically, with the horizon line dividing each picture exactly.