Deja-vu: A Photography Quarterly (Complete Set, 20 Issues)

Tokyo: Photo-Planete, 1990-1995.
First Edition.

29.5cm x 23cm. 20 volumes, colour and black and white illustrations. Pictorial wrappers, obi to Nos. 1-3 (the remainder issued without). Text is in Japanese and English.

Complete run of the 1990s Tokyo photography quarterly, from Moriyama, Araki and the Provoke era to Goldin, Witkin, Frank and Mapplethorpe. Featured artists: No. 1 ‘L’oeil de deja-vu’ (Moriyama Daido, Kawada Kikuji, Tahara Keiichi, Morimura Yasumasa, Shinoyama Kishin); No. 2 ‘Le theatre de la mode’ (Thierry Mugler, Jan Saudek, Kon Michiko, Kurigami Kazumi, Alastair Thain); No. 3 ‘Travel Documents’ (Hamish Fulton, Wim Wenders, Furuya Seiichi, Fujiwara Shinya); No. 4 ‘Araki Nobuyoshi’; No. 5 ‘South’ (Minato Chihiro, Miyamoto Ryuji, Peter Beard); No. 6 ‘Documentary Photography Today: Five Views’ (Kurata Seiji, Jane Evelyn Atwood, Martin Parr, Yamaguchi Gen, Nagakura Hiromi); No. 7 ‘Landscape and Silence’ (Sugimoto Hiroshi, Emmet Gowin, Fugo Hitoshi, Yamamoto Tadasu); No. 8 ‘Gocho Shigeo’ (with a portfolio by Joel-Peter Witkin); No. 9 ‘Private Life’ (Nan Goldin, Shimao Shinzo, Araki Nobuyoshi); No. 10 ‘Images of Girls’ (Araki Nobuyoshi, Robert Mapplethorpe); No. 11 ‘Inose Kou’ (with Frederick Sommer); No. 12 ‘Yasui Nakaji and the 1930s’ (with Touhami Ennadre); No. 13 ‘Larry Clark’ (with Sebastiao Salgado); No. 14 ‘The Provoke Era: Turning Point in Post-war Japanese Photography’ (Nakahira Takuma, Taki Koji, Takanashi Yutaka, Moriyama Daido, with Anselm Kiefer); No. 15 ‘Tokyo Diary’ (Kuwabara Kineo, Kanemura Osamu, Nan Goldin, Araki Nobuyoshi, Philip-Lorca diCorcia); No. 16 ‘Louis Faurer’ (with ‘Photography and Obscenity’, Robert Frank, Nan Goldin); No. 17 ‘Furuya Seiichi / August Sander’; No. 18 ‘New Tokyo Photographers’ (Kasai Chikashi, Konno Kumiko, Kanemura Osamu, Yoshino Erika, Nagashima Yurie, Nomura Sakiko); No. 19 ‘Bauhaus Photography’ (Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Yamawaki Iwao); No. 20 ‘Araki Nobuyoshi and the I-Novel’.

No. 1 obi split almost through and laid in, small chip to spine of No. 2 obi. Very minor shelf wear and very minor soiling to some edges. Near Fine Condition.

AU$2,000