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PROVOKE Complete Reprint of 3 Volumes

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

$58.75

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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 Olympia

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Takashi Homma’s upcoming photobook “Tokyo Olympia” is now available for preorder. The book is set to be released in October 2023. "Tokyo Olympia” is a continuation and reinterpretation of Takashi Homma’s seminal book “Tokyo Suburbia”. Over six years Homma photographed the ever...

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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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Prospects Vol. 8

Kazuyuki KAWAGUCHI

$33.04

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Japanese photographer Kazuyuki Kawaguchi presents the eighth edition of his ongoing “Prospects” series. In these photographs, Kawaguchi focuses on places and their unique locality. With a preference for rural towns and cities past their prosperous prime, Kawaguchi documents and exp...

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A Place

Hideki MAKIGUCHI

$44.06

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In his series “A Place,” Japanese photographer Hideki Makiguchi sets out to interrogate the very texture of existence. Though the places he photographs—from parking lots to street corners, grassy patches, open areas and other nondescript locations—may appear empty or vacant at firs...

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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

$19.83

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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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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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¥€$U$ (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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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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SWITCH: COMME des GARÇONS 50th Anniversary Issue (Special edition)

Various Artists

$73.43

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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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Kurayami

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With “Kurayami,” Japanese photographer Masao Yamamoto and Japanese musician Akira Uchida deepen the dialogue that began with their collaborative photobook “Sasanami” in 2020. In “Kurayami” (lit. “darkness”), Yamamoto lets his visual language unfold over two chapters (“Side A” and “...

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Day For Night

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“Day for Night,” published by LA-based Deadbeat Club Press, is the first monograph of the legendary Japanese photographer Toshio Shibata. As the title implies, Shibata’s images—originally taken between 1980 and 1988—construct an interplay between light and shadow, day and night. Ov...

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Assembly Snow

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So far, the Assembly series has surveyed individuals grouping together in an attempt to show the strengths of groups. In “Assembly Snow,” individuals stack together, melt together to become one. Extending the time the camera shutter stayed open summons a blur in each image, and the...

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Flower is not flower

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With “Flower is not Flower,” Chan Wai-Kwong presents a strong showing of his talents as a photographer. At once personal and detached, Chan Wai-Kwong blasts through a diverse fog of emotions in private snapshots, photographs from the streets of Hong Kong, provocative nudes and play...

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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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Prospects Vol. 7

Kazuyuki KAWAGUCHI

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For the seventh volume of his ongoing “Prospects” series, Kazuyuki Kawaguchi visited once-prosperous towns and cities in Japan’s Kanto, Tohoku, Kansai and Koshin’etsu regions. His photographs of buildings, streetscapes and urban sceneries in these economically declining places capt...

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Middle Plane Issue 6

Yoshitomo NARA, Rinko KAWAUCHI, Takashi HOMMA, Osamu YOKONAMI, Various Artists

$30.03

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The sixth issue of London-based magazine “Middle Plane” features work by Yoshitomo Nara, Rinko Kawauchi, Takashi Homma, Clémentine Schneidermann, Letty Schmiterlow, Fumiko Imano, Jack Day, Sam Rock and Osamu Yokonami as well as photographs from the archive of the legendary Harajuku...

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Private Scenes

Masahisa FUKASE

$36.72

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This book brings together, for the first time, the entire “Private Scenes” photographic series in which we discover a new dimension of the work of Masahisa Fukase, that of the artist struggling with his medium. This singular corpus is made up of images in which the artist inserts h...

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Tokoyo no mushi

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This second edition of “Toyoko no Mushi” brings back one of late Yoshiichi Hara’s most sought-after photobooks. Originally published in 2013, “Tokoyo no Mushi” (“Everlasting Insect”) weaves a strange, dark atmosphere as Hara (1948–2019) captures an urban world through the perspecti...