Parinoir

Parinoir

Nicolas Silatsa

Edition : First / Paris / Self Published / 1981 / Hardcover. / VG+ / VG+

Small 4to, 144pp. Cloth in photographic dustwrapper. Black & White plates. Text in French.

Self published portrait of blackness in late seventies and early eighties France. Silatsa came from Cameroon to study refridgeration but abandoned his study after 2 years to concentrate on photography, of which this is the result. Very much an every day chronicle of life in Paris and a document of the immigrant experience, with all the good and bad that entails. 

 

tokyo dolls

Tokyo Dolls

Hiromi Tsuchida

Nice book on late 70s trans life in Tokyo. Published in the Seven Sha series – whic also included the brilliant Document Park and Document Teenager.