Kamaitachi

Tokyo: Aperture, 2005.
Second Edition. Signed by Author

38cm x 30cm. [41] folding leaves, photogravures. Pictorial cloth, acetate jacket, illustrated clamshell. Text is bilingual, in English and Japanese.

Hosoe’s photobook of butoh dancer Tatsumi Hijikata in the small farming village of Tashiro, the hometown of Hijikata’s father. “Kamaitachi has two meanings. On the one hand, it is unmistakably a documentary of butoh dancer Tatsumi Hijikata. On the other it is a “record” of my own “memories”, both nostalgic and sad, of having been evacuated as a schoolchild during WWII.” (the artist) The Second Edition, with text in English and a clamshell designed by Tadanori Yokoo, following the Japanese edition of 1969. One of 500 numbered copies signed by the photographer on a mounted plate.

Book is in Fine Condition. Very minor shelf wear to clamshell. Near Fine Condition.

AU$800