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Smell on the Street

Hiroyoshi YAMAZAKI

$33.20

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Its title perhaps a reference to Bruce Gilden’s famous definition of street photography (“If you can smell the street by looking at the photo then it’s a street photograph”), Hiroyoshi Yamazaki’s photobook “Smell on the Street” presents color photographs taken in Tokyo between 1987...

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Tokyo Heat Wave

Nobuhiko SUZUKI

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Shibuya, home to one of the world’s most famous street crossings and heart of Japan’s contemporary culture. For his series “Tokyo Heat Wave,” Nobuhiko Suzuki (b. 1968) took nightly snapshots on the streets of Shibuya between the years 2000 and 2018, two years before the Corona Pand...

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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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The Yamamotos

Masaki YAMAMOTO

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Yamamoto’s previous book “Guts” was published by Zen Foto in 2017, featuring bold, candid and unashamed photographs he took of his family inside the small one-room apartment from 2014 to 2017. Well received and featured by many media outlets overseas, the book was shortlisted for t...

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Tokyo Silver Paradise

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Named after the silver gelatin process used to make analog prints in the darkroom, John Sypal’s “Tokyo Silver Paradise” captures the Japanese capital in black and white pictures. Composed of innocuous and significant moments, observations of peculiar scenes and unique oddities, por...

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Vacuum 08

CHEN Jade, Shogo YAMADA, Jun ABE, Ryosuke KOSHINO, Mei HIRANO, Jumpei SETO, Yuko HIRANO, Hasuan Lang Lin, Takuya SUZUKI, Nagisa GOTO

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The eighth issue of Osaka-based street photography magazine Vacuum again serves as a regular window into the current state of Japanese street photography. Like in previous issues, the ten contributors (Yuko Hirano, Mei Hirano, Takuya Suzuki, Jumpei Seto, Nagisa Goto, Jun Abe, Shogo...

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HOKKAIDO

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The images were all taken in 1978–9 on the island of Hokkaido located in the northern part of Japan. The region of Hokkaido captured Moriyama's imagination as a young man still at school. Travel across Japan was prohibited in the aftermath of the Second World War, and for the ...

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Daido Silk (Black)

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“Daido Silk” delivers 45 of Daido Moriyama’s best and most important photographs from his long career in stunning quality. Created with great care and attention, each page has been silkscreen-printed and features unprecedented visual depth and gradation. The photographs were select...

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Daido Silk (White)

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“Daido Silk” delivers 45 of Daido Moriyama’s best and most important photographs from his long career in stunning quality. Created with great care and attention, each page has been silkscreen-printed and features unprecedented visual depth and gradation. The photographs were select...

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PROVOKE Complete Reprint of 3 Volumes

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

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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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Tokyo Strut

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An homage to Tokyo’s eccentrics and eccentricities In his work, Tokyo-based Shinya Arimoto has continued to photograph people and the environments in which they live, whether through portraits or street snaps. His latest series “Tokyo Strut”, mainly shot in Shinjuku, the urban subc...

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Hokkaido

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Dressed in a sturdy, beautiful silkscreen-printed canvas cover, this 2022 publication collects around 70 photographs from Daido Moriyama’s “Hokkaido” series. In 1978 during a difficult period for the artist, Moriyama spent three months in Hokkaido in search of inspiration. He began...

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Enchaînement

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In her photobook “Enchaînement”, Mirika Ishida regards the changing days of her life like frames of a film. Presented in the 16:9 format and laid out like an endless chain of images, Ishida’s days pass by without context or comment. The photographs, taken somewhere in Japan or in E...

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Voice

$107.91

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Jungjin Lee’s extraordinary new artist’s book, “Voice”, comprises 46 large-scale photographs made in 2018 and 2019. While the photographs were originally made in deserts, mountains, oceans and plains, the artist writes, “My images should be seen as metaphors, a form of meditation. ...

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And Then

$74.71

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Tommytfortwo’s photobook “And then” tells the story of Tommy and Janice. They first met at a photography exhibition in 2012. Janice liked the quiet kindness of his photographs, like “sunlight shining through trees.” In 2013, they became a couple. Seven years later, Janice became si...

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Diana Hong Kong 2014

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One of the most serious chapters in Hong Kong’s recent history, captured with a toy camera When the Umbrella Movement began to emerge in 2014, photographer and Hong Kong-native Wong Kan-Tai (b. 1957) happened to try out a range of cameras for a new project – among them the Diana Pl...

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Domains

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Ikko Narahara's legendary two series "Chinmoku no Sono"(shot in a Trappist monastery) and "Kabe no Naka" (photographed in a women's prison) will finally become available again in the form of "Domains". Contents: 87 images from "Chinmoku ...

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Leib

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In her photobook “Leib”, Japanese photographer and dancer Mirika Ishida focuses on the body as the locus of life. With the delicate pages of the book physically underlining the fragile nature of her subject matter, Ishida presents compositions in which her body interacts with itera...

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Yes, The River Knows - Arakawa River

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Wan Chaofan spent four years capturing photographs alongside the Arakawa River, from its source in Oku-Chichibu just north of Tokyo to the point it flows into the sea in Tokyo Bay. As one of the main rivers that flow through Tokyo, the Arakawa has defined its shape, provided water ...

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Comme des Garçons Zine Bundle

Vvery Negative Gucci Production

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This set of seven zines made by the anonymous collective Vvery Negative Gucci Production and designer Texas Knuller celebrates the work of Japanese fashion designer Rei Kawakubo and her fashion label Comme des Garcons. Six of the zines are dedicated to the inventive, unusual styles...