Eikoh Hosoe
Tokyo: Curatorial Assistance, Inc., 1991.

Catalogue for a retrospective exhibition of Japanese photographer Eikoh Hosoe (1933-2024), including many of butoh dancer Hijikata Tatsumi from the Kamaitachi series, and others of his avant garde circle. This copy inscribed by Hosoe.

Rinko Kawauchi
New York: Aperture, 2011.

Second printing of the first edition (a tenth-anniversary edition was published in 2021). The first of the Japanese photographer’s books to be published outside of Japan. Essay by David Chandler.

Daido Moriyama
Hong Kong: Asia One Books, 2012.

A retrospective compilation of self-portraits and floral works by Japanese photographer Daido Moriyama from his Auto-portrait and Sunflower works.

Daido Moriyama
Tokyo: Akio Nagasawa Publishing, 2011.

One part of Japanese photographer Daido Moriyama’s Record series. This copy signed by the photographer to the title page.

Daido Moriyama
Tokyo: Akio Nagasawa Publishing, 2008.

One part of Japanese photographer Daido Moriyama’s Record series. This copy signed by the photographer to the title page.

Ian Teh
Great Britain: Deep Sleep Editions, 2011.

Photobook of industrial China. This copy inscribed the photographer.

Ken Kitano
Beijing: Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, 2010.

Exhibition catalogue for Japanese photographer Ken Kitano’s our face project at Three Shadows Photography Art Centre which opened 3 July, 2010. “At first glance these our face works might look like single individuals, but each is a composite image of a group layered into one. The production process is long and involved – and completely analog – burning negatives one by one onto silver halide printing paper at ultra-low exposures, over and over again. The Three Shadows Photography Art Centre on the outskirts of Beijing places great value on large-format silve rhalide photgraphs and is one of the very few facilities in the world equipped to handle production. In April 2009, Centre Directors RongRong and inri graciously informed me of their willingness to help me with the project, so from May 2010 I began a three-month residency to produce this our face series.” (from introduction) This copy signed by Kitano in silver marker and with a small drawing by the photographer.

Wang Chuan
Beijing: Pekin Fine Arts, 2011.

“Published on the occasion of Wang Chuan’s second solo exhibition ‘Refocus: Dragon’ at Pekin Fine Arts, Beijing, April to May 2011. This exhibition is also part of Caochangdi Photospring 2011. Wang takes a contrarian approach to digital photography by enlarging the pixels and making them obvious to the viewer in order to draw attention to overlooked details of Beijing’s landscape. ‘In Refocus: Dragon, Wang demonstrates a simple enough premise: The dragon is still everywhere in Beijing; its portrait shows up in the oddest and most unexpected places.[…] Wang’s works implicitly question how these dragon legends play out on a contemporary stage. Wang shows us, using his impressionistic pixels, a variety of places where he recently “discovered” dragons still alive and kicking, lodged deeply in the psyche of local people around Beijing.’ (from foreword by Meg Maggio) Includes an essay by Gu Zheng and artist statement by Wang Chuan. Artist biography and list of works provided. Chinese text is printed in a separate booklet attached.” (publisher’s blurb). This copy inscribed by the photographer.

Edward Burtynsky
Gottingen: Steidl, 2009.

The quarry photographs of Edward Burtynsky with essays by Michael Mitchell. This copy signed by the photographer, and from the collection of the photographer Lewis Morley, with his bookplate.

Sabine Weiss; Jean Vautrin
Paris: Editions de La Martiniere, 2003.

This copy inscribed by Weiss to the title page.

Vee Speers
Heidelberg: Kehrer Verlag, 2014.

Monograph of the Australian born-Paris based photographer Vee Speers, revisiting her 2007 photo book, The Birthday Party, recapturing the children from that work in the same manner and costumes 6 years later. Speers was born in Newcastle and trained at the Queensland College of Art.

Anders Petersen
Gottingen: Steidl, 2012.

First printing of the first 3 books in Petersen’s City Diary (now published in a series of seven). This set won the Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook of the Year Award for 2012.

Torbjorn Rodland
[London]: MACK, 2012.

Photobook by Norwegian photographer Torbjorn Rodland from works made in Oslo, Tokyo, Beijing, and Los Angeles, “combining images of fetishized isolation in a layout that rejects the linear structure of thematic photography books. .. Reconstructed scenes of ultrasoft BDSM read like twisted metaphors for photography’s ability to freeze or capture. The book title, dripping in innuendo, also poses a question about the ambiguity of the relationship between the artist and his medium.” (from publisher’s blurb)

Rennie Ellis; Susan Van Wyk
Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria, 2008.

Catalogue for a retrospective exhibition of Australian photographer Rennie Ellis held at the NGV two years after his death.