Soseiki: Wakaki hi no geijutsukatachi / Eikoh Hosoe Portraits
First Edition. Signed by Author
34cm x 25cm. [192] pages, black and white photographs, some fold-outs. Blue cloth, silver lettering, pictorial slipcase, pictorial obi. Text is in Japanese, primarily photographs.
125 mostly previously unpublished portraits of 35 of Japan’s leading 20th century artists in their youth. Features butoh dancers, writers, artists, and creatives such as Yayoi Kusama, Yukio Mishima, Kazuo Ohno, Tatsumi Hijikata, Min Tanaka, Akira Sato, Yoko Ashikawa, Masuo Ikeda, Shuji Terayama, and others. Limited to 1,500 unnumbered copies, this copy signed by Eikoh to the front free endpaper.
Book is in Fine Condition. Slipcase with a small chip to the tail fore-edge corner. Near Fine Condition.
$400.00 AUD
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