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M/E

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Upon visiting Iceland in 2019, Kawauchi encountered geysers like the breadths of Earth, glaciers surpassing human time, and the inner space of a dormant volcano that was reminiscent of the inside of a womb. She had thus experienced the connection to this planet she had never felt b...

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Nakahira Takuma: Burn-Overflow

Takuma NAKAHIRA

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This catalog accompanies the Takuma Nakahira exhibition “Burn—Overflow” held at the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, from February 6 – April 7, 2024. The exhibition was the first major retrospective of Takuma Nakahira’s work in close to twenty years. Like the exhibition, the c...

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PROVOKE Complete Reprint of 3 Volumes

Koji TAKI, Takuma NAKAHIRA , Yutaka TAKANASHI, Takahiko OKADA, Daido MORIYAMA

$58.93

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The Provoke magazine, created and published by art critic Koji Taki, photographer Takuma Nakahira, poet Takahiko Okada, photographer Yutaka Takanashi and (for issues 2 & 3) photographer Daido Moriyama, has had an immeasurable influence on photography world-wide. The individual ...

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High Fashion

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“HIGH FASHION” is a series of work taken by Pawel Jaszczuk between 2008 and 2010 of drunk salarymen sleeping in the streets of Tokyo. Pawel, residing in Japan at the time, would head out on his bicycle after midnight to photograph different people and places, saying that the best h...

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Yoko

Masahisa FUKASE

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Masahisa Fukase's timeless masterpiece "Yoko" is now being newly reprinted. Originally published in 1978, Masahisa Fukase's "Yoko" stands as a defining series in his body of work, yet it had long been out of print. Now, nearly half a century later, thi...

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Finding Annu Aalto

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It was about 49 days after her passing when her parents visited Sokyusha to donate her unused films. Chiba-san, who was holding an exhibition at the gallery that day, received them. I was supposed to work at Sokyusha on the following day, there I was given 32 rolls of her will. She...

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Shinjuku Lost Child

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“Walking from the East exit of Shinjuku station towards Kabukicho, my heart begins to pound. Kabukicho reveals human desire. I adore it. I slept on cardboard on the street, under neon, and it felt good. I was out of the machine and I saw myself differently. The cardboard bed is per...

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Roadside Lights Seasons: Winter (C)

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All four covers available Eiji Ohashi’s winterly landscapes with vending machines. “Roadside Lights Seasons: Winter” is a follow-up to Eiji Ohashi’s critically acclaimed photographic series of vending machines along roads throughout Japan. The volume focuses exclusively on scenes t...

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The Dialogue of Two

Akihito YOSHIDA

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"It wasn’t a dream. He really came back". "The Dialogue of Two" is the nearly three-year story of photographer Akihito Yoshida's grandmother until her death at the age of 88, left alone after Yoshida's cousin Daiki, who lived with her, took his own lif...

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Shibuya 1999

Mike NOGAMI, Masami TAKAHASHI

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Gal culture flourished in Shibuya at the end of 20th century. In the late 1990s, young girls filled Shibuya's Centre Gai Street and began creating a unique cultural movement that would eventually spread throughout Japan. People came from all over the country to gather in Shibu...

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'89 Tiananmen

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This 2024 edition of Kan Tai Wong's "'89 Tiananmen" series features 102 photographs taken by Wong to cover the 1989 student protests in Beijing's Tiananmen Square (plus six photographs taken between 1998 and 1999). In 1989, Wong was originally in Beijing to...

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The Best Days (New Edition)

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“The Best Days” is Yang's earlier work photographed between 1999 to 2006 when he was studying photography in Tokyo. Driven by the suicide death of his comrade, Yang documented his life trajectory and people around him while he traveled back and forth between Japan and Korea. Z...

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Ravens

Masahisa FUKASE

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“Ravens is one of the defining bodies of work in the history of photography and a high point in the photo book genre. This accumulation of accolades, and the passing of time, have obscured much of the fascinating detail which explains the artist’s pre-occupation with this motif thr...

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Obi and Sand: Kyoto/Enoshima

Yoshio MIZOGUCHI

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Shot in Kyoto and Enoshima in the 1990s and 2000s, Yoshio Mizoguchi's "Obi and Sand" presents snapshots of women and strangers against the backdrop of Kyoto and the mysterious air of its history in the first part, and the Pacific Ocean and sandy beaches of Enoshima i...

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SWITCH: COMME des GARÇONS 50th Anniversary Issue

Various Artists

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The Japanese magazine SWITCH honors the 50th anniversary of Comme des Garcons with a special issue. The magazine celebrates CdG’s vision, achievements, heritage and lasting impact with a deep dive into its archives, including a long interview with founder Rei Kawakubo, features on ...

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New York (New Edition)

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This 2024 edition brings together two series of photographs by Keizo Kitajima made in New York: the first in black and white, taken in 1981 and 1982 (previously published in Kitajima's 1982 book "New York"), and the second in color, taken in 1986, 1987, and 1989. The...

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Tokyo on the Brink of Sanity

Yoshio MIZOGUCHI

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Japanese photographer Yoshio Mizoguchi’s photobook “Tokyo on the Brink of Sanity” captures the Japanese megalopolis at a time of disreality, between the late 1980s and early 2000s, when the sudden disappearance of the great fantasy of the bubble gradually began to permeate life in ...

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Homo Ludens

Masahisa FUKASE

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Masahisa Fukase's "Homo Ludens" revived after half a century Masahisa Fukase's first photobook, "Homo Ludens" (Yugi) (Chuo-koron-sha, Contemporary Images 4), was published in 1971. This anthology of photographs, taken over more than ten years and edite...

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¥€$U$ (JESUS)

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Having returned to his home of Poland after a decade living abroad, Pawel Jaszczuk was surprised at the ubiquity of religious objects in everyday contexts. Jesus had become a pop culture icon: holy Christian images appeared on underwear, as chocolate, as floating bathtub accessorie...

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New Land - Pre-Hokkaido Landscapes

Toshiki NAKANISHI

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The mountains of Hokkaido, photographed like a distant planet. Landscapes beyond recognition. Unearthly scenes from a primordial world. In his photobook “New Land: Pre-Hokkaido Landscapes,” the Japanese photographer Toshiki Nakanishi engages the Daisetsuzan mountain range in search...