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Where Time Has Stopped

$115.08

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“Europe: Where Time Has Stopped”, composed of color and monochrome photographs shot during Narahara’s travels through Europe between 1962 and 1965, was controversial for its themes and experimental photographic techniques and is considered to be Narahara’s masterpiece. However, the...

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PROVOKE Complete Reprint of 3 Volumes

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

$61.38

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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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Tekiya

$47.43

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Yang Seung-Woo (“Shinjuku Lost Child”, “The Best Days”, “The Last Cabaret”) spent more than ten years photographing tekiya, the Japanese carnies traveling from festival to festival to sell typical foods and other goods from mobile stalls. Struggling to make ends meet, Yang started ...

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Vacuum 06

Jun ABE, Ryosuke KOSHINO, Nagisa GOTO, CHEN Jade, Yuko HIRANO, Kosato MATSUOKA, Shogo YAMADA, LIN Hsuan-Lang, Jumpei SETO, Takuya SUZUKI

$23.02

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Vacuum magazine is back with its sixth issue. Like in the previous five entries, the Osaka-based magazine and its range of contributors offer some of Japan’s best street photography. Each of the contributors (for issue 6: Kosato Matsuoka, Shogo Yamada, Jumpei Seto, Hsuan Lang Lin, ...

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Haroshi 2003 - 2021

$76.72

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This 520-page strong catalogue “I versus I” forms an archive of Japanese artist Haroshi’s work from his earliest pieces in 2003 up until the present day. The book is published in conjunction with the exhibition “I versus I” held at Tokyo-based Nanzuka Underground (July 10 – August ...

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Human Land

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Ikko Narahara’s legendary photobook - available again 30 years after its original publication. During the 1960s, the small island of Gunkanjima - now a world heritage site and uninhabitated for more than 40 years - off the coast of Nagasaki was home to a population of roughly 5000....

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Goze (New Complete Edition)

Shoko HASHIMOTO

$38.36

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This Complete Edition of “Goze” includes previously unpublished photographs and offers an unprecedented view at Shoko Hashimoto’s masterful series from the 1970s, newly selected, edited and scanned from over 10,000 original negatives by Michitaka Ota, founder of publisher Sokyusha....

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Farewell Photography

$92.07

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Daido Moriyama’s 1972 photobook Farewell Photography was one of the most influential photobooks ever released. This faithful re-publication, designed by Satoshi Machiguchi in close cooperation with Moriyama, makes the seminal work available again, all photos in the original size of...

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Taiwan 2017-2020

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Yasuko Noguchi’s new photobook features the artist’s characteristic black-and-white street photography and was photographed in Taiwan between 2017 and 2020. With images that range from snap photography to impromptu portraiture, Noguchi captures the relaxed liveliness on the streets...

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Record No. 51

$23.02

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An exhibition of my photographs just opened at a museum in Sao Paulo, and there are also shows underway at museums in Rome and Beijing. While asking myself how my photographs may look to the people in these faraway places, I’m also in the middle of producing a voluptuous close-up s...

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Tokyo: Daido Moriyama, Shomei Tomatsu

Daido MORIYAMA, Shomei TOMATSU

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This catalogue is a set of 3 books that includes works by Daido Moriyama and Shomei Tomatsu as well as texts written by both artists. Each catalogue is signed by Daido Moriyama. "Tokyo: Daido Moriyama, Shomei Tomatsu" is published on the occasion of the exhibition of the ...

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Bunrakuza (Reprint)

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This reproduction of Taikichi Irie’s photobook “Bunraku-za,” produced on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the artist’s death, features a series of photographs taken between 1939 and 1945 – a breakout work that established his career as a photographer. The photographs documen...

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New Photographic Objects

Daisuke YOKOTA, Hiroshi TAKIZAWA, Nerhol, Teppei SAKO, Takashi MAKINO

$53.70

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This special catalogue, published to commemorate the eponymous exhibition at the Saitama Museum of Art, contains works by all five featured artists as well as a photographic record of the exhibition itself. Just like the exhibition itself, the “New Photographic Objects” catalogue e...

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Vortex

$61.38

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544 pages strong, Kikuji Kawada’s “Vortex” consists of images selected from the vast amount of works uploaded by the 89-year old Kawada to his Instagram account in the past years. It is at the same time a condensation of the artist’s refined, sharp vision of the contemporary world ...

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My Favorite 21

$19.89

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With the last 100 sheets of Onaka’s favorite photo paper (Kodak Paper), he decided to print a set of his favorite photographs. This book includes the most favorite 21 photos out of the 100.

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The Map / Chizu (Reprint)

$383.61

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The original 1965 edition of “Chizu (The Map)” is a legendary photography book that is virtually impossible to catch sight of today. While relentlessly tracking the “stains” scattered across walls and ceiling of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial, Kawada projects memories of the war thro...

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TOKYO 1961（New Edition）

$268.52

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William Klein has continuously been active in the front lines in a wide range of areas, working as a fashion photographer for Vogue magazine, a movie director, and a photographer who continues to capture urban sceneries in unique ways. Following New York (1956), Rome (1956) and Mos...

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Shinjuku Lost Child

$35.52

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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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End of the Line - Kotobukicho

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Kotobukicho, Yokohama city, Kanagawa. 10 minutes walk away from Yokohama’s Chinatown. I heard about the place and went there for the first time without any specific intentions. Hearing many different languages, this place looked very different from my original impression of Japan. ...

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Sakura

Risaku SUZUKI

$42.20

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Together with “White” and “Between the Sea and the Mountain”, “Sakura” forms one of the main representative series of Risaku Suzuki’s 20 year long body of work. In “Sakura”, Suzuki focuses on the cherry blossom, the one flower most familiar with his Japanese audience and simultaneo...