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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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Someone’s Wife

Nobuyoshi ARAKI

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Known as one of his lifeworks, Araki’s series nude photographs of wives “Hitozuma Eros” originated in 1998 as a regular column for “Shukan Taishu” magazine published by Futabasha. Forming a series that still continues today, these photographs feature hundreds of wives who have sent...

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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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MUJO

Nobuyoshi ARAKI

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Kinbaku Raisan

Nobuyoshi ARAKI

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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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Love Hotels / Museums of Erotica (two-volume boxed set)

Kyoichi TSUZUKI

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The vanishing world of Japanese erotica In the 2000s, Japanese photographer and editor Kyoichi Tsuzuki set out to document love hotels and the last remaining hihokan (sex museums, literally “house of secret treasures”) throughout Japan. Both love hotels and hihokan are relics of Ja...

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Provocative Relationship - Daido Moriyama x Takuma Nakahira

Daido MORIYAMA, Takuma NAKAHIRA

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“Provocative Relationship – Daido Moriyama x Takuma Nakahira” is the official catalog for the exhibition of the same title, held at The Museum of Modern Art, Hayama from July 15 to September 24, 2023. Both the catalog and the exhibition represent an invaluable attempt to trace the ...

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The Tokyo Toilet

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“It may sound as though I am exaggerating, but no other photographer has used public restrooms in Japan as much as I have.” ― Daido Moriyama in is introduction to “Tokyo Toilet” In a way, public restrooms are an essential but often overlooked prerequisite for street photography. Af...

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SWITCH: COMME des GARÇONS 50th Anniversary Issue

Various Artists

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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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Weekend

Shigeru YAMAZAKI

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Shigeru Yamazaki’s photobook “Weekend” journeys into two different Tokyos. In the first chapter, Yamazaki presents photographs taken in a period of rapid economic growth between 1974 and 1977 in the traditional shitamachi districts of Tokyo – populated by less affluent workers, the...

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Breathless

Tsubasa KAWAGUCHI

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“Breathless” is the debut photobook of Tsubasa Kawakuchi, Japanese photographer and Grand Prix winner of the 2nd Fugensha Photo Award. Having found a broken camera that gave his photos a slight magenta tinge, Kawakuchi began to photograph the summer in his hometown. With the camera...

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Always Dream

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The photographs in “Always Dream,” Yoshihiko Ueda’s new photobook, were all shot in China between 1990 and 2011, while Ueda worked on several advertising campaigns for an oolong tea made by Japanese beverage giant Suntory. Though the reason for Ueda’s being in China may be strictly...

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Heliotropic Landscape

Tamami TERASAKI

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“As I wander in the dense woods, I am struck by a dizzying uneasiness that has no fixed point of view—it seems that my sense of existence and consciousness becomes vague. However, when the sun glistens down, I can hear the murmuring of things that are in complete harmony.” ― from T...

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Toxic

Hideka TONOMURA

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“Only I can deal with my own reality And it is I who makes the most perfect photographic vector to my own reality While I am bound by reality yet I will unravel it There is no point in living for a hundred years I am made of soul and flesh I remain in my photographs Within their et...

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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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They Called Me Yukari (New Edition)

Hideka TONOMURA

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Originally published by Zen Foto Gallery in 2013 as the second photobook after her shocking debut “Mama Love”, “They Called Me Yukari” was shot in Kabukicho, Shinjuku where Tonomura worked as a hostess. The book attracted much attention and was long out of print but is now being re...

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Wunderkammer

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“Wunderkammer” is the first photobook by Yumiko Utsu to be released in 14 years, published on the occasion of the group exhibition “Leap Before You Look – Contemporary Japanese Photography vol. 20” (Oct. 27, 2023–Jan. 21, 2024) at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography. “Wund...

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Record No. 55

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Daido Moriyama presents issue number 55 of his ongoing “Record” series. Originally started in 1972, Moriyama relaunched the project in 2006 and has been regularly publishing his photography in zine-like photobooks. This 55th issue, published in October 2023, features photographs ta...

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Roganfudoki

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With its subjects and settings ranging from mountain sceneries, forests, children, villages, miscellaneous objects, interiors, ponds and close-ups, Masahito Agake’s “Roganfudoki” (lit. “Hazy-eyed Record of a Region”) captures the world as a place imbued with mystery and an ominous ...