Photobook Phenomenon
VicenC Villatoro
ISBN 10: 8417047050 / ISBN 13: 9788417047054
Published by Rm/Ccccb/Fundacion Foto Colectania
Photographic Department of the Imperial Headquarters
A Photographic-Album of the Japan-China War, Part III: Wei-hai-wei
Ogawa Kazumasa, Tòquio, 1895
Photographic Department of the Imperial Headquarters
The Russo-Japanese War, First Army
K. Ogawa, Tòquio, 1904
Kohoku Iida
Iida Kohoku Photographic Works
Autoedició, Tòquio, 1912
Masao Horino
Camera, Eye x Steel, Construction 1930–1931
Mokuseisha Shoin, Tòquio, 1932
Kiyoshi Koishi
Early Summer Nerves
Naniwa Photography Club, Osaka, 1933
Ihei Kimura i Shunkichi Kikuchi
Tokyo: Fall of 1945
Bunka-sha, Tòquio 1946
Hiroshi Hamaya
Snow Land
The Mainichi Newspapers, Tòquio, 1956
Yasuhiro Ishimoto
Someday Somewhere
Geibi Shuppansha, Tòquio, 1958
Ken Domon
The Children of Chikuho
Patoria Shoten, Tòquio, 1960 (Segona edició)
Ken Domon
Pilgrimage to Old Temples
Bijutsu Shuppan, Tòquio, 1963
Daido Moriyama
A Japanese Theater
Muromachi Shobo, Tòquio, 1968
Eikoh Hosoe
Kamaitachi
Gendai Shichousha, Tòquio, 1969
Ikko Narahara
España: Grand Tarde
Kyuryudo, Tòquio, 1969
Shigeo Gocho i Masao Sekiguchi
Days
Autoedició, Tòquio, 1971
Nobuyoshi Araki
Sentimental Journey
Autoedició, Tòquio, 1971
Kiyoshi Suzuki
Soul and soul
Autoedició, Yokohama, 1972
Hiromi Tsuchida
Gods of the Earth
Ottos Books, Yokohama, 1976
Miyako Ishiuchi
Apartment
Shashin Tsushinsha, Tòquio, 1978
Kikuji Kawada
The Map
Bijutsu Shuppansha, Tòquio, 1965
Ikko Narahara
Europe: Where Time has Stopped
Kajima Shuppankai, Tòquio, 1967
Takuma Nakahira
For a Language to Come
Fudosha, Tòquio, 1970
Yasuhiro Yoshioka
Bestiality: Third Venus
Sogo Tosho, Tòquio, 1971
Hitoshi Tsukiji, Shinzo Shimao, Naoya Hatakeyama, Norio
Kobayashi
Cameraworks
Tòquio, 1980 (vols. No. 5 & No. 7), 1982 (No. 9), 1983
(No.10)
Yutaka Takanashi
Towards the City
Izara Shobo, Tòquio, 1974
Hitoshi Tsukiji
Perpendicularly (Territory)
Autoedició, Yokohama, 1975
Jun Morinaga
River?Its Shadow of Shadows
Yugensha, Tòquio, 1978
Miyako Ishiuchi
Yokosuka Story
Shashin Tsushinsha, Tòquio, 1979
Masato Sakano
Talking About Fussa
Shashin Tsushinsha, Tòquio, 1980
Yutaka Takanashi
Tokyo-ite
Shoshi Yamada, Tòquio, 1983
Hitoshi Tsukiji
Photo-Image
Cameraworks, Tòquio, 1984
Toshio Yamada
The Family
Shashin Tsushinsha, Tòquio, 1987
Eikoh Hosoe
Barakei - Ordeal by Roses
Shueisha, Tòquio, 1963
Eikoh Hosoe
Barakei - Ordeal by Roses
Shueisha, Tòquio, 1971
Eikoh Hosoe
Barakei - Ordeal by Roses
Aperture, Nova York, 1984
Eikoh Hosoe
Barakei - Ordeal by Roses
YMP, Tòquio, 2015
Shomei Tomatsu
Nippon
Shaken, Tòquio, 1967
Asahi Camera
Asahi Shimbunsha, Tòquio
Genr, febrer, març 1960
Bijutsu Techo
Bijutsu Shuppansha, Tòquio, abril 1962
Camera Mainichi
Mainichi Shimbunsha, Tòquio, setembre 1964 /gener 1965
Chuo-koron
Chuo-koronsha, Tòquio, abril i agost, 1960
Iwanami Photo Paperback, Japanese Casualties of Flood,
n. 124
Iwanami Shoten, Tòquio, 1954
Iwanami Photo Paperback, Town of Pottery, n. 165
Iwanami Shoten, Tòquio, 1955
Photo Art
Kenkosha, Tòquio - gener, febrer, marc, juny, juliol i agost
1960
Shomei Tomatsu
Brilliant Breeze: Okinawa (12 volums)
Shuei-sha, Tòquio, 1978
Motohiro Sato
Hello, 1970
Sodosha, Tòquio, 1969
Toshio Enomoto, Tadao Kato, Kazuto Kamo, Masato Koji
Four situation for situation
Tokyo Zokei University Printing Workshop, Tòquio, 1970
Students of Tadasuke Akiyama studying at the
Tokyo College of Photography, Published
Annually
Okinawa '72 – '82 (9 volums)
Tokyo College of Photography, Yokohama, 1973–1981
Daido Moriyama
Another Country in New York
Autoedició, Tòquio, 1974
Masahiro Minato
No Maritime Mind
Trans Inc., Tòquio, 1978
Kazuyuki Kawaguchi
Okinawa Hallucination Trip
Autoedició, Himeji, Prefectura de Hyogo, 1978
Keizo Kitajima
Photo Express Tokyo (12 volums)
Autoedició, Tòquio, 1979 (edició facsímil)
Osamu Takizawa
Gestation of a Dream
Autoedició, Tòquio, 1981
Hiroshi Hamaya
Calendar Days of Asa Hamaya
Edició no venal, Kanagawa, 1985
Michio Yamauchi
To Man
Place M, Tòquio, 1992
Takuma Nakahira
For a language to come
Photographs: Takuma Nakahira
Text: Takuma Nakahira
Publisher: Fudo-sha
192 pages
Pictures: 103
Year: 1970
Comments: Hardcover with jacket and card slipcase, 300 x 212 mm. First edition, 1970. Gravure printing. Included in Martin Parr & Gerry Badger, The Photobook, vol. I, p.292-293 ; Ryuichi Kaneko & Ivan Vartanian, The Japanese Photobooks of the 1960's and 1970's, p.130-133.
"Through his photographs and writings Takuma Nakahira was both the chief polemicist for the Provoke group and its political conscience. Along with Moriyama's Sashin yo Sayonara (Bye Bye Photography), his book Kitarubeki Kotoba no Tameni (For a language to come) marks the apogee of the Provoke period. It exhibits all the characteristics of the Provoke style - an unabashed revelling in "bad" photographic technique, the mannerisms of the New York School pushed to the edge of coherence. These qualities would tend to make the casual reader bracket it with Moriyama's masterpiece, yet a closer look at Nakahira's book reveals that Nakahira's sensibility is quite different. Althoug the more political of the two, Nakahira didt not photograph "political" subjects directly, but utilized a troubled lyricism to express his disaffection with the colonization of Japan by American consumerism. Whereas Moriyama is jumpy and frenetic in tone, Nakahira displays a brooding calm. For a language to come closes with several shots of the sea, and the book's narrative is punctured at intervals with marine images. Far from suggesting boundless space, this is a dark, bleak and menacing sea, with the consistency of soup, a metaphor for claustrophobia and a narrowing of horizons.
The other overwhelming metaphor in the book is fire, an apocalyptic, post-Hiroshima conflagration, often expressed indirectly in Nakahira's night pictures with swathes of burned-out lens flare. These "natural" metaphors - water and fire - remind us that this is essentially a "landscape" book, though a landscape of the mind. The two, however, are inextricably related (...). These are sad, beautiful pictures of half-light - and half-life. They are quintessential Provoke images, and stand for much postwar Japanese photography prior to the 1980s."
Martin Parr & Gerry Badger, The Photobook: A History, vol.I
1 Photobook printing
1933: Frühsommerliche Empfindlichkeit (Faksimile 2005)
Shoka Shinkei - Early Summer Nerves. / Kiyoshi KOISHI. – Faksimile der 1933 im Naniwa Shashin Club in Osaka erschienenen Originalausgabe. Nr. 134/600. – Tokyo: Kokusho Kanko-kai 2005. – 2°. [25] Bl. mit 10 Abb., 12 S. Kommentarheft mit englischer Übersetzung. Aluminium-Deckel mit Ringbindung in illustriertem Schuber. – (Masterpieces of Japanese Photography ; 02)
Das nur in wenigen Exemplaren erhaltene Künstlerbuch der japanischen Moderne von Kiyoshi Koishi (1908-1957) wurde 2005 durch Kakusho Kanko-kai in Tokyo als Faksimile herausgebracht. 600 Exemplare erschienen dann bei Kakusho Kanko-kai selbst (vorliegend) und 100 Exemplare bei Nazraeli Press. - Die Deckel sind beim Original nicht aus Zink, wie bei Parr/Badger aufgeführt, sondern aus einer Aluminium-Legierung.
Ref.: Parr/Badger, The Photobook, volume I, S. 113. Fotografia Publica, S. 148.
2 Photographers and Designers
Miyako Ishiuchi
Yokosuka Story
Photographs: Miyako Ishiuchi
Text: Ken Bloom & Miyako Ishiuchi
Publisher: Shashin Tsushin Sha
Year: 1979
Comments: Softcover with obi as issued, 235 x 290 mm. Black & white photographs. First edition, 1979. Referenced in Parr&Badger vol 1 p304.
"Yokosuka - it was a place that I never thought I'd go back to, a city I wouldn't want to walk in twice ; it was land best forgotten as far as I was concerned. Never did I think I would go back like this.
The gloomy darkness and cold excavations of Yokosuka, where odd things and happenings were fused in a complicated interlocking, threw shadows that stayed with me for a long time, even after the city was far, far away. By getting away, I expected the shadows to dissolve and disappear, but instead, after I left, a new feeling - different from when I lived there - began to well up and take over. I felt that I had to go back there with a camera, yet somehow my legs just wouldn't head in that direction. To Yokosuka... (...)
It had been nine years since I left, but my Yokosuka was still there as it had been. The gloom had grown deeper and the excavated mountain faces had become steeper. Though years had passed, nothing of this "Yokosuka" had changed."
Barakei
HOSOE, Eikoh and Yukio Mishima.
Barakei / Killed by Roses.
Tokyo: Shueisha, 1963. First Edition. Folio. 43 black and white photographs, 4 color illustrations on vellum, 2 gatefolds. Number 91 of 1500 press-numbered copies, SIGNED by Hosoe and Mishima, and additionally INSCRIBED in silver marker by Hosoe to a collector. Arguably the most famous Japanese photobook of the 20th century. Writer Yukio Mishima is the model for Hosoe's lavish surreal production; his collaboration in the project pushed Hosoe's artistic talents to the brink, creating a final document that transcends the inherent limitations of book arts. (Parr / Badger, v1, 280-281; Roth 164-165; Open Book 194-195; Auer 422).
3 Photo Magazines that Produced Photobooks
Shomei Tomatsu
Nippon
Photographs: Shomei Tomatsu
Publisher: Shaken
200 pages
Pictures: 150
Year: 1967
Comments: Original silver cloth with title debossed on hardcover with acetate dust jacket, 227 x 195 mm. First edition, 1967. Monotone Gravure printing. Very scarce and collectible copy!
A retrospective book, Nippon, published in 1967, is full of dramatic, often contradictory-seeming, images of landscapes, holy men, traditional actors and half-hidden artefacts. It is also a major assessment of Japanese postwar national identity. It was the first publication of Tomasu's own publishing company Shaken. Most of the photos assembled in this volume were shot on assignment in various parts of the country between 1955 and 1967.
4 Compendium
5 Self-Publishing
ANOTHER COUNTRY IN NEW YORK ：Airplene (reprint)
Daido MORIYAMA
These books is a new reprinted facsimile edition of Daido Moriyama's famous self-published Xeroxed publication Another Country in New York from 1974.
Book Size 315 x 215 mm
Pages 90 pages
Printing silkscreen softcover
Publication Date 2013
Publisher Akio Nagasawa Publishing
