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PROVOKE Complete Reprint of 3 Volumes

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

$59.77

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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 2nd edition

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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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Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji

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This collection of new work by celebrated photographer Takashi Homma approaches one of the most iconic and widely represented images in Japan and the world: Mount Fuji. With its title referencing Hokusai’s famous series of ukiyo-e woodblock prints, Homma evokes his country’s tradit...

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Vacuum 11

Kotone TANIGUCHI, Shogo YAMADA, Nagisa GOTO, Ryosuke KOSHINO, Jun ABE, LIN Hsuan-Lang, Yuko HIRANO, Mei HIRANO, Jumpei SETO, Takuya SUZUKI

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The eleventh issue of the Japan-based street photography magazine “Vacuum” features new work by the photographers Kotone Taniguchi, Shogo Yamada, Nagisa Goto, Ryosuke Koshino, Jun Abe, Hsuan Lang Lin, Yuko Hirano, Mei Hirano, Jumpei Seto, and Takuya Suzuki. Like previous issues, “V...

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Record No. 55

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Daido Moriyama presents issue number 55 of his ongoing “Record” series. Originally started in 1972, Moriyama relaunched the project in 2006 and has been regularly publishing his photography in zine-like photobooks. This 55th issue, published in October 2023, features photographs ta...

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Tokyo Olympia

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In design and spirit, Takashi Homma’s “Tokyo Olympia” continues and reinterprets the artist’s 1998 work “Tokyo Suburbia.” What kind of a place is Tokyo on the advent of the 2020 (2021) Olympic Games? How has it changed, and how does it adapt and prepare itself in expectation of the...

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Provocative Relationship - Daido Moriyama x Takuma Nakahira

Daido MORIYAMA, Takuma NAKAHIRA

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“Provocative Relationship – Daido Moriyama x Takuma Nakahira” is the official catalog for the exhibition of the same title, held at The Museum of Modern Art, Hayama from July 15 to September 24, 2023. Both the catalog and the exhibition represent an invaluable attempt to trace the ...

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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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Shizuoka-shi ("Shizuoka Poetry")

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Masafumi Sanai, born and raised in Shizuoka, presents an ode to his hometown. Celebrated for his immediate and enigmatic style, Sanai’s photography capture ordinary scenes of everyday life in a pure, untainted manner that leave the viewer to search for their own meaning. Despite ha...

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Ishinomaki

Shoko HASHIMOTO

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Born in 1939, Japanese photographer Shoko Hashimoto has been documenting his hometown of Ishinomaki in Miyagi Prefecture over many decades of his life, including the series “Ishinomaki 2011.3.27–2014.5.29” about the period of rebuilding and coming-to-terms following the earthquake ...

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They Called Me Yukari (New Edition)

Hideka TONOMURA

$37.35

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Originally published by Zen Foto Gallery in 2013 as the second photobook after her shocking debut “Mama Love”, “They Called Me Yukari” was shot in Kabukicho, Shinjuku where Tonomura worked as a hostess. The book attracted much attention and was long out of print but is now being re...

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Someone’s Wife

Nobuyoshi ARAKI

$28.39 $19.42

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Known as one of his lifeworks, Araki’s series nude photographs of wives “Hitozuma Eros” originated in 1998 as a regular column for “Shukan Taishu” magazine published by Futabasha. Forming a series that still continues today, these photographs feature hundreds of wives who have sent...

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Farewell Photography

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This 2023 reprint of Daido Moriyama’s “Farewell Photography” brings back one of the master photographer’s most influential and controversial works. This edition is based on the 2019 publication of “Farewell Photography” by Getsuyosha (itself based on the original publication by Sha...

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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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Always Dream

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The photographs in “Always Dream,” Yoshihiko Ueda’s new photobook, were all shot in China between 1990 and 2011, while Ueda worked on several advertising campaigns for an oolong tea made by Japanese beverage giant Suntory. Though the reason for Ueda’s being in China may be strictly...

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Our Pocketkamera 1985

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“Seiichi Furuya: Our Pocketkamera 1985” is the third book in a photobook project that Seiichi Furuya began to develop in 2019, based on various documents found in the attic of his house. According to Furuya, “In the fall of 1978, I had gifted Christine with a 110 pocket camera. She...

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Toxic

Hideka TONOMURA

$39.39

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“Only I can deal with my own reality And it is I who makes the most perfect photographic vector to my own reality While I am bound by reality yet I will unravel it There is no point in living for a hundred years I am made of soul and flesh I remain in my photographs Within their et...

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MUJO

Nobuyoshi ARAKI

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Kinbaku Raisan

Nobuyoshi ARAKI

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die of love

Hideka TONOMURA

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Following earlier photobooks (“They Called Me Yukari”, “Mama Love”) in which Hideka Tonomura processed the seedier sides of life, her new work “die of love” can be considered as her own “theatre of love” - a love story woven by happiness, sadness, difficulties and ridiculousness. P...