Tokyo

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

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

'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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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 objects in the photo volume '¥ € $ U $' by Pawel JASZCZUK are sometimes so screaming & grotesque that the meaning of religion can at least be examined not only for the people in Poland. The photographs are printed on paper with a high-gloss varnish.

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.

'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.

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.

Open binded HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 16,5 x 24 x 2,5 cm., bilingual: English / Japanese, Ltd. to 500 numbered 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

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 photo volume'Tokyo Jazz Joints' by Northern Irish photographer Philip ARNEILL and James Catchpole documents the culture of disappearing jazz pubs and cafes in Japan / Tokyo, the Jazu Kissa, where jazz records are played and time seems to stand still.

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

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'.

HC, 25 x 39 cm., 96 pp., 57 bw-ills., Ltd. ed. to 500 copies

The out-of-print photographic volume 'Successive Sliding of Pleasure' by Japanese photographer and renowned printer Osamu KANEMURA was published in an edition of only 200 copies on the occasion of an exhibition.

ALSO AS SIGNED COPY! In 2006, MAGNUM photographer Jacob Aue SOBOL travelled to Tokyo. He photographed close to reality, in the streets and public places. 'I, Tokyo' is full of passion & directness - and awarded with the 'Leica European Publishers Award'.

In her volume 'Flight', German photographer Antonia HENSCHEL listed those places in alphabetical order that she has traveled to within a year, from Amsterdam to New York and Stockholm to Zurich. After that, the order results from the chronology of events.

The photo volume 'Color' by Daido MORIYAMA contains images which document Tokyo in-between 2008 & 2012. Images of street scenes, fleeting portraits and snapshots of his lived occurrences are visually placed within the new viewing context of color imagery.

Linen bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 20 x 25 x 2 cm., 120 pp., 89 color ills., text language: English

For his out-of-print book 'Outskirts', Daisuke YOKOTA explores the boundaries between digital & analog photography. He uses color images from the outskirts of Tokyo - pictures of cars, trees & buildings - whose colors he then reverses into the monochrome.

'Tension' by Andreas KREMER is a multi-layered portrait of Japan. Inspired by the famous photographer Daido MORYAMA, the photographer deals with Tokyo in particular and the way of life of Japanese city dwellers in general.

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.

SC with acetate dust jacket, 18,5 x 30 x 1 cm., 52 pp., color & b/w ills., 275 gr., no text, text details in English, Ltd. to 500 copies

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

'Record No. 44 'contains photos taken shortly before and up to the point in time when the corona began. After two days at home, famous photographer Daido MORIYAMA grabbed his camera and face mask and wandered through Nakano and other places day after day.

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

'Today Tokyo' by Chotoku TANAKA is a testimony of an era of change and the changed perception during the Olympic Games in 1964 - not only but also for the Japanese themselves: not as the capital of a defeated country, but as a dynamic city in the Far East

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 21 x 25 x 2 cm., 112 pp., color ills., text language: English

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 22,5 x 26,5 cm., 64 pp., color ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 600 copies

The glossy photo publication 'High Fashion' by Polish photographer Pawel JASZCUK, reminiscent of a fashion magazine, contains color photographs of drunken salesmen in chic work clothes on their way home. Now these lie asleep in the streets of Tokyo.

Volume No.6 of the book series 'Grosse Photographern unserer Zeit' (Great Photographers of Our Time) presents the work of Swiss Magnum photographer Werner BISCHOF (1916-1954) in over 80 b/w images - works in the area of tension between art and reportage.

SC, 23 x 30,5 cm., 15 ills., 4/4 offset printed, Ltd. to 250 sign. & numb. copies

Slipcased pb., 21 x 15 cm., 352 pp., color ills., text language: English

'KURA chan' by Japanese master photograher Daido MORIYAMA is the sixth volume in a series of hand-bound volumes with screen-printed canvas covers. The revised edition contains photos from the 'Provoke' era as well as work that has not yet been published.

The photographs in this volume, 'UEKI. Petits Pots et Jardins' by Yasuyuki TAKAGI, could be a walk through an unexpected Tokyo and a form of sustainable development for a new concept of space as well as an expression of the creativity of the inhabitants.

The b/w photos in 'Future World' by Elisabeth NEUDÖRFL come together to form the overall image of a layered urban space, a view of artificiality of various forms: artificial flowers, artificial ski slope, artificial sea beach and a tsunami protection wall

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.

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.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 25,5 x 32,5 cm., 128 pp., 90 ills., Ltd. to 500 copies

'Tokyo on the Brink of Sanity' by Yoshio MIZOGUCHI shows the hustle & bustle of Tokyo from the late 70s to the 2010s, when the disappearance of the bubble began to permeate life in Tokyo. His street photography here moves between the erotic & the mundane.

Re-edit, HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 21 x 25 x 2 cm., 112 pp., color ills., text language: English

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

'The Best Days' by Seung-Woo YANG is an early work, photographed between 1999 to 2006 during his studies in Tokyo. Driven by the suicide death of his comrade, he documented his life trajectory and people around him while he traveled between Japan & Korea.

Open spined pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 14,5 x 21 x 1 cm., approx. 96 pp., 84 full-paged color ills., text language: English

The first series by Pawel JASZCZUK, 'Sleeping Train', was created in 2004. This small volume contains full-page portraits of sleeping travelers on the Tokyo subway. A great addition to 'Tokyo Compression', 'Subway' (Bruce Davidson) and 'Manhattan Transit'

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.

Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 18 x 26 x 1 cm., 48 pp., 38 b/w ills., bilingual text: Japanese / English, 187 gr., Ltd. ed. to 500 copies

This self published volume, 'Twentysix Ceramic Fountains' by French photographer Franck LANDRON, shows 26 b/w photographs of urinals from all over the world in the style of the cult book 'Twentysix Gasoline Stations' by American (photo) artist Ed RUSCHA.

Zen Foto Book, Vol. 37, pb., 18 x 24 x 1,5 cm., 88 pp., 300 gr., no text, Ltd. to 500 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

The out-of-print photographic volume 'Places, Strange and Quiet' by German photographer and filmmaker Wim WENDERS presents the entire spectrum of his photographic work, from his outdoor shots and buildings to panoramic views.

In 2014, the Bibliothèque nationale in Paris organized a retrospective for PETERSEN, on which this great monograph - as it were the first, comprehensive appreciation of the work - this great humanist photographer has appeared as an accompanying catalog.

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

'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'.

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.

The out-of-print volume 'Kinky City' by Pawel JASZCZUK show moments of intoxication as well as the opposite of everyday life. Daybreak means a change of clothes: from latex & uniform to suits & business suits that cover the bruises of the past few hours.

'White Noise' by Takehiko NAKAFUJI, focuses on Japan's capital. The photos mix genres and styles: b/w street photography as well as almost psychedelically colorful architectural shots. It reflects the experience of Tokyo in endless labyrinthine structures

The travel diary 'See Saw' by Antonia HENSCHEL takes us to 10 places worldwide. From London to Venice and Tokyo. Connecticut, is followed by Taipei & Shanghai and Marrakech by Seoul. A foggy stretch of forest on the Moselle and a visit to Odawara, Tokyo.

The out-of-print volume 'System' by Jens LIEBCHEN shows a magical winter wonderland, an untouched snowy landscape with beautifully grown trees. It seems a natural spectacle of perfect beauty - but it is not, the pictures were made in the middle of Tokyo.

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.

Self-published photo volume 'YAKUZA' by Belgian photographer Anton KUSTERS is a haunting reportage from the inner circle of organized crime in Japan. With a foreword by the US Magnum photographer David Alan HARVEY. It has already been reprinted twice.

Daido MORIYAMA's photo book 'Kanban' is the direct successor to 'KURA chan' in the series of hand-bound volumes with screen-printed envelopes. It contains photographs of billboards that can be found in large numbers on the streets of his favorite cities.

Linen, swiss bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 24 x 29,5 x 2 cm., 160 pp., 95 duotone b/w ills., 1,200 gr., text language: English