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Keizo Kitajima: Shashin Tokkyubin Tokyo (Photomail from Tokyo) (Second Printing, with Yellow and Red obi)

Publisher: Tokyo: Paroru-sha, 1981
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Fine / Near Fine
Item #: 112232

$1,250.00

Specifics

1979/1981. First edition, second printing. Soft cover. Printed wrappers; with photographically illustrated dust jacket and 3-1/2 inch obi. Photographs by Keizo Kitajima. Text in Japanese. Includes a bound, folded poster with text and illustrations on one side and a large, two-color reproduction on the other side. Unpaginated (156 pp.), with black-and-white and four-color plates throughout. [Cited in Martin Parr and Gerry Badger, The Photobook: A History, Volume III. (London and New York: Phaidon, 2014)].

Condition

Fine in Near Fine dust jacket and obi (light rubbing and wear to the extremities, else Fine).

Description

A fascinating and quintessentially Provoke-style glimpse of the pop cultural mecca that is Tokyo's Shinjuku district.
From Parr and Badger: "The combination of black and white with colour is interesting, because this is a difficult trick to pull off. The tension between Kitajima's flamboyant, contrasty, edgy monochrome and his matter-of-fact, understated colour makes this one of the most distinctive books in the wide bibliography on Shinjuku nightlife."