Japanese photographer

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

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.

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

Record #40 consists of photographs that Daido MORIYAMA took in French capital, Paris, in 2018. Near Saint-Michel, Rue Mouffetard and around 'Moulin Rouge', his thoughts drifted back thirty years to the time when he lived for a short period in Paris.

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'.

Pb. with dust jacket & obi belt, 22,5 x 30 x 3,5 cm., 432 pp., 291 b/w ills. text language: English

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

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

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.

With its generous image flow, this book, 'A Diary', celebrates important Japanese photographer Daido MORIYAMA as the 2019 Hasselblad Award winner and his highly influential, lifelong radical and authentic approach to photography.

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

The photographic volume 'Yajiri' by the Japanese photographer Akihide TAMURA, limited to 300 signed and numbered copies, contains fifteen color photographs of flying military aircraft at a U.S. air base near Tokyo.

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 '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.

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

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.

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

Haunting, distorted and otherworldly images in the out-of-print volume 'Site/Cloud' epitomizes the approach of Daisuke YOKOTA to pushing the development process & possibilities of analog image making, introducing imperfections and visual noise into them.

'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 limited editon photographic volume 'After the Snowstorm' by Yasunori SAITO, produced in Japanese binding, shows white areas within individual plants rising from the snow. The pictures were taken in the northernmost part of Japan, in Hokkaido.

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

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

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.

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.

Rinko KAWAUCHI's volume in the 'Des Oiseux' series focuses - like the text by ornithologist Guilhem Lesaffre - on the way of life of swallows, their history, their south-north migration, the season of birth, and their special relationship with humans.

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.

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.

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.

At the center of 'Doors' is the documentation of photographer Yusuke YAMATANI's European tour, a self-portrait project that combines photography with drum performance. In addition to the performances, snapshots, landscapes und encounters are recorded.

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

'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.

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!

Over 150 photo books from a private collection for sale. Signed titles, some in their original packaging and collector's editions with print from 2010 to 2016. Also to find next days with detailed description in the 'other second-hand photo books' section

In 'Sakura', Yoshinori MIZUTANI attempts to visualize the movement of his observing eyes as well as distill the visual experience of meditating & wandering over the blossom tree. He shows that photography is also capable of capturing the passage of time.

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

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

'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

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

Re-edit. 'Shikishima' by Tamiko NISHIMURA is rather one of the lesser-known book classics from the 1970s; it is the result of a journey through her homeland. The photographer was once an assistant to Daido MORIYAMA, who also influenced her stylistically.

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.

HC, 25,5 x 34 cm., ca. 96 pp., olor ills., bilingual text: English / Japanese

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'?

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.

Two Volumes set: One HC (no dust jacket ,as issued), 21 x 30 x 1,5 cm., 96 pp., 1One saddle stitched pb., 21 x 30 x 0,5 cm., 48 pp., color, ills., boilingual text: Japanese / English

Pb. with pergament dust jacket, 15 x 18 x 1 cm., 64 pp., color ills., bilingual texts: Japanese / English

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.

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

Out-of-print photo book 'PARIS 88/89' by Daido MORIYAMA offers a view of the French capital through the lens of a Japanese master photographer who lived there alone in the late 1980s, having shortly before discovered photographer Eugène ATGET for himself.

Self published out-of-print photographic volume 'Distance. 1991-1995' by Koji ONAKA is about an unspecified city and in its industries. The black-and-white images show railroad infrastructure and roads, as well as a worn port. Signed & numbered (178/300).

The book 'Unimachi 1997' by Koji ONAKA was created in 2012 under the impression of the devastating tsunami in Japan. The b/w photographs show the urban everyday life of the region at the end of the 1990s. The series was later published again as a volume.

In this 8th volume of a photo book series with screen-printed canvas covers, Daido MORIYAMA's 'Tiles in Aizuwakamatsu' the Japanese photographer takes as its subject the flood of roundish tiles that decorated the toilet of his hotel room in Aizuwakamatsu.

'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.

A figure of the younger Japanese photo scene, Yoshinori MIZUTANI, he examines the urbanity of his city Tokyo, documenting scenes bordering on the fantastic. His birds in 'Des Oiseaux' give the city back its secret.

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

Three slipcased HC, 30,5 x 14 x 46 cm., 966 pp., color ills., multilingual text: German / English / French

Swiss binded HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 22,5 x 27,5 x 1,5 cm., 80 pp., 38 b/w ills., trilingual: French, English, Japanese

'CAMP 1979' by Keizo KITAJIMA documents the activities in the experimental space of the same name co-founded by Keizo KITAJIMA, Seiji KURATA & Daido MORIYAMA. Typical for his style is the coarse grain and very strong contrast and his choice of subjects.

Jin OHASHI is one of the most popular and important photographers in Japan today. This photo book, nominated for the Paris Photo Aperture Foundation Award 2013 is a fundamental work that reflects the life of an individual and not of society as a whole.

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

The photo booklet 'By the Sea' - a narrow and large-format - contains a collection of landscape photos that the OGAWA took during various stays on the Japanese coast in winter. In addition to works in b/w, like in 'Shimagatari', we see here works in color

Captured within the volume 'Flower' by Japanese photographer Sakiko NOMURA, former assistant of Nobuyosi ARAKI, are an array of images of flowers, nude portraits and photographed landscapes all exuding fleshly and sensuous emotions throughout each page.

The images in 'Berlin' by Daisuke YOKOTA exhibit his signature experimental processing techniques whilst also demonstrating unconventional shooting methods like re-appropriating thermographic & infrared cameras and rendering the images onto analog film.

'Yokohama Gorakuso' contains b/w architecture photos, but Miyako ISHIUCHI makes from them soul full portrait photographs of a building. A secret history of this building complex and in certain ways an answer to her first photo volume, 'Apartment' (1978).

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.

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.

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

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

In out-of-print photo book 'Illuminance', Rinko KAWAUCHI continues her investigation of the particular in the everyday, magically drawn to the fundamental cycles of life and the seemingly unintentional, fractal-like order of nature in formal structures.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 28 x 23 x 1 cm., 80 pp., 68 color ills., bilingual text: Japanese / English. Ltd. to 500 copies

In 'Selected Works, 1973-1981', fifteen photographers, curators & authors - David Campany, Paul GRAHAM, Guido GUIDI, Takashi HOMMA, Hans U. Obrist, Ed RUSCHA, Britt Salvesen, Taryn SIMON, Thomas STRUTH - describe the work of Stephen SHORE she amazes why.

In her photo volume 'My Journey II. 1968-1989' the Japanese photographer Tamiko NISHIMURA documents her travels through her homeland. After the series and book 'Shikishima' this book is another prime example of brilliantly composed snapshot photography.

In this 'Record' issue, 'No. 25, Japanese photographer Daido MORIYAMA presents his vision of Okinawa’s extraordinary light from his visit in 2013.

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

In 'Stakeout Diary', Yukichi WATABE follows the investigation of a murder that occurred in 1958. Parts of the series already appeared that time in a magazine, others in the book 'A Criminal Investigation'. The photos were new selected for this publication

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.

Signed & numbered photo book 'White and Vinegar' by Daido MORIYAMA brings together images and selected essays he has written since his youth over 40 years ago. The b/w images were shot from nearly square instant prints and then cropped to 35mm film format

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

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