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Land of Fusion

Toshiki NAKANISHI

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In "Land of Fusion," Japanese photographer Toshiki Nakanishi explores Hokkaido's deep past. After spending years researching, visiting, and photographing the remaining ruins and sites of the Okhotsk culture, which settled on Hokkaido's northern coast from the 5t...

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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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Solitude Standing

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"Solitude Standing" is published on the occasion of the 100th birthday of Japanese photographer Ichiro Kojima. Born in Aomori in 1924, Ichiro Kojima captured life in the harsh environment of the Tohoku region of northern Japan. Kojima's life was cut short at the youn...

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PROVOKE Complete Reprint of 3 Volumes

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

$59.23

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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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SURVEILLANCE

Tsutomu YAMAGATA

$47.98 $40.78

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After his previous work “Thirteen Orphans” and “Ten Disciples”, Yamagata continues to focus on the marginalized population. In his new work “SURVEILLANCE”, objectified young women in their rooms are automatically taken by an infrared camera designed for monitoring animals, complete...

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Roadside Lights Seasons: Winter (A)

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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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Beyond What You See

Toshiya WATANABE

$112.24

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Watanabe’s second artist book features entirely new images from his latest series "Beyond What You See". Like Japanese writer Haruki Murakami, Watanabe depicts the subjects in his photographs in-between the mystical and the real world, creating a sense of confusion in the...

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Outsider Photography in Japan

Kyoichi TSUZUKI, Yusuke KIHARA, Various Artists

$28.13

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Edited by Kyoichi Tsuzuki, "Outsider Photography in Japan" focuses on photographers whose work is rarely if ever featured in photography magazines, galleries, or museums, artists who work outside of established circles and conventions. Featuring works by Yusuke Kihara, Fu...

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Hong Kong Summer: Double Suicide

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Chan Wai-Kwong's exhilarating pursuit of love The city of Hong Kong is always one of the main characters in Chan Wai-Kwong's photographs. Faces, mouths, arms and other body parts, dogs, cats, cars, concrete, metal, and even colors flash by in his (mostly black-and-white) ...

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Sasuke

Masahisa FUKASE

$37.02 $31.47

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Divided into four chapters, the new publication “Sasuke” presents an organized collection of Fukase’s cat photography. Sasuke (and later Tomoe) was a faithful companion to Fukase, and became a regular subject of his photography. As with his most famous series “Raven”, Fukase’s phot...

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New Land - Pre-Hokkaido Landscapes

Toshiki NAKANISHI

$59.23 $50.35

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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...

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Ouroboros

Hiromi TSUCHIDA

$66.64

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Hiromi Tsuchida's "Ouroboros" consists of two interrelated series shot between the early 1990s and 2005. In 1991, after the end of the economic bubble that fueled Japan's extraordinary growth and prosperity in the 1980s, Tsuchida began a series he called "I...

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Into the Silence

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Written at the end of the 17th century, Matsuo Basho’s travel journal “The Narrow Road to the Deep North” about the poet’s journey to the north of Japan remains one of the most influential and inspiring pieces of Japanese literature. Following his admiration for Basho and finding h...

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Mokuso-roku

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For years, Japanese photographer Sen Yokotani traveled the world, from Eastern and Western Europe to South America, India, Egypt, Africa, Russia, the Middle East, and China, visiting former deserts, mountains, monasteries, battlefields, and refugee camps. His new book, "Mokuso...

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Lines and Bodies

Yasuhiro ISHIMOTO

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"Lines and Bodies" presents the emblematic series by Yasuhiro Ishimoto (1921-2012), combining the formal approach of Chicago's New Bauhaus with the quintessence of Japanese aesthetics. This monograph allows us to rediscover the work of a photographer who published ve...

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Roadside Lights Seasons: Winter (D)

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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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TFW Korea

$33.65

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“Over the past few decades, South Korea has become a more competitive society, with the current times overlapping against its cultural and ethnic background. As a result, South Korea has the highest youth suicide rate among developed countries and the lowest birth rate in the world...

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Beyond Shadow

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This is Sudi's first artist book with which she shows how much photography means to her. She was very much influenced by her father, who used to turn off the lights in the house, while casting light onto a small courtyard. Sudi and her father cherished the serene view of the g...

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Vocalise

Kotori KAWASHIMA

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The long-awaited sequel to Kotori Kawashima's Mirai-chan In 2011, Kotori Kawashima's photobook "Mirai-chan", documenting the daily life of a young child on Sado Island, became an international success. That same year, Mirai-chan embarked on an extended vacation ...

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Kanon

Shimpei YAMAGAMI

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“A butterfly does not brag about the size of its wings. It is occupied with making the best of the shortness of its life.” ― from Shimpei Yamagami’s foreword “Kanon” is, in a way, a condensation of Shimpei Yamagami’s photography. Preceded by an introductory chapter showing trees in...