Monday, 30 January 2017

Nobuyoshi Araki / Oh, Nippon! / Oh, Japan!




Edition : First / Tokyo / Miki Shuppan / 1971 / Softcover / VG+
Small 4to, Unpaginated (ca 250pp). Printed wraps as issued. Numerous Black & White plates. Text in Japanese. A little rubbing with one small split to the spine. Complete and bright otherwise.


Araki's first commercially available book. Cited in The Open book. Still very cut and paste and Xeroxy, his first book is much more playful and less violent than the work he is known for today. Araki constantly had problems with the censors and Oh Nippon! was no exception. Mikuo Nakamura developed a creative mise en page that split the rejected images into sections which could be easily reassembled by folding opposing pages together across multiple spreads. Beautiful and very well designed.

Wednesday, 25 January 2017

"the depth of solitude in fukases's photographs makes me shudder" best copy of the best book ever. masahisa fukase. karusa / ravens. 1986. with insert, glassine wrap and signed! dm for info/purchase. #masahisafukase #karusa #ravens #signed


"the depth of solitude in fukases's photographs makes me shudder" best copy of the best book ever. masahisa fukase. karusa / ravens. 1986. with insert, glassine wrap and signed! dm for info/purchase. #masahisafukase #karusa #ravens #signed


"the depth of solitude in fukases's photographs makes me shudder" best copy of the best book ever. masahisa fukase. karusa / ravens. 1986. with insert, glassine wrap and signed! dm for info/purchase. #masahisafukase #karusa #ravens #signed


undercover klaus wahnfrieden s/s 2006. recorded september 1972 and remained unissued until this pressing. #klausschulze #undercover #juntakahashi #prog #krautrock #drone


cosmic. undercover klaus wahnfrieden s/s 2006. recorded september 1972 and remained unissued until this pressing. #klausschulze #undercover #juntakahashi #prog #krautrock #drone


undercover klaus wahnfrieden s/s 2006. recorded september 1972 and remained unissued until this pressing. #klausschulze #undercover #juntakahashi #prog #krautrock #drone