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Masahisa Fukase 1961-1991 Retrospective

Masahisa FUKASE

$24.86

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The magic of Masahisa Fukase’s lifework in a single book This pocket-sized photobook, published to accompy a large-scale retrospective at the Tokyo Photographic Museum, offers a comprehensive look at the entire oevre of master photographer Masahisa Fukase. Revered for his relentles...

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Farewell Photography

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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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Smell on the Street

Hiroyoshi YAMAZAKI

$33.14

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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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Days In Between

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“Days in Between”, the second photobook by Japanese photographer Michi Nakano, is dedicated to the ephemeral beauty of everyday life. No matter the circumstances, the location or the events, Nakano understands every moment of life as completely unique. His sensual captures follow t...

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Dawn in Spring

Asako NARAHASHI

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“Dawn in Spring” brings back the earliest works of Japanese photographer Asako Narahashi.　Originally shot in 1989, a decisive period not only for the then-unknown artist, Narahashi exhibited the images from her “Dawn in Spring” series four separate times throughout the year. Inclu...

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Shinjuku Lost Child

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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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Zuisha

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Born and raised in Nebraska, USA, John Sypal has been living in Japan since 2004. After his first publication "Tokyo Camera Style" (Thames & Hudson, London) Zen Foto Gallery is releasing his second and highly anticipated publication "Zuisha". The first time ...

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Moving Away

Miyako ISHIUCHI

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“There are many reasons to move. In my case, one morning I was suddenly overwhelmed by an eerily compelling sensation that I shouldn’t be here anymore.” In “Moving Away”, Japanese photographer Miyako Ishiuchi herself becomes the subject of her photography. In the three years betwee...

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My Husband

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The joyful days with her husband, Shinzo Shimao, and daughter, Maho in a one-room unit of a Western-style house and her solitude she faced alone in the quiet night; Dormant for 40 years, the story of these photographs is finally uncovered. A set of two books with Book 1 and Book 2 ...

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Where Time Has Stopped

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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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1980s Remnants

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A rare time capsule from the 1980s The story of Daido Moriyama’s photobook “1980s Remnants” begins in 1987, when Moriyama handed Michitaka Ota (of photobook publisher Sokyusha) a box filled with one thousand of his photographs. Some photos from the box were published in “A Journey ...

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The Yamamotos

Masaki YAMAMOTO

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Masaki Yamamoto’s new photobook “The Yamamotos” follows up on his sensational debut book “Guts” from 2017. In black-and-white photographs, Yamamoto documents the daily life of his tightly-knit family – his parents, his sisters and brothers. Although this series begins after the fam...

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Sha Shin Magazine Vol. 3: Spell

Kikuji KAWADA, Naohiro UTAGAWA, Yuki ONODERA, Yoko KUSANO, Seiji KUMAGAI, Chieko SHIRAISHI, Gozo YOSHIMASU

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The third issue of Sha Shin magazine, titled “Spell”, focuses on the relationship between language and photography. Opening with individual series by photographers Kikuji Kawada, Naohiro Utagawa, Yuki Onodera, Yoko Kusano, Seiji Kumagai, Chieko Shiraishi and Gozo Yoshimasu, the mag...

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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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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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Tokyo and my Daughter (Complete Edition)

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This is an extended edition of Takashi Homma’s revered series “Tokyo and my Daughter” (originally published in 2006). As per the title, the photobook lives off the connection between Homma’s home of Tokyo and a little girl who we see grow up into a young child. We see the girl – wh...

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Vortex

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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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Daido Silk (Black)

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Fully silkscreen-printed photobook Daido in impeccable visual fidelity “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 feature...

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a priori

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“I communicate a language that does not require words, from the body to the body, from the skin to the skin.” In 2018, fourteen years after her first works in the “a priori” series, a personal event urged the Japanese photographer Yoko Mazuki to once again think about the human bod...

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Tohjiba, healing spas of rural Japan

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Deriving from the characters of hot water and curing, the word “tohjiba” is used to characterize the natural hot springs of Japan. Used for over a millennia as a place of relaxation and recuperation, Kazuo Kitai often visited these tohjibas within the northern areas of Honshu durin...