Soseiki: Wakaki hi no geijutsukatachi / Eikoh Hosoe Portraits

Tokyo: Kokusho Kankokai, 2012.
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.

Hosoe (1933-2024) co-founded the VIVO photography collective in 1959 with Ikko Narahara, Shomei Tomatsu, Kikuji Kawada, and Akira Sato, and went on to collaborate with Yukio Mishima on ‘Barakei’ (Ordeal by Roses, 1963) and with the butoh dancer Tatsumi Hijikata on ‘Kamaitachi’ (1969). This volume gathers 125 mostly previously unpublished portraits of 35 of Japan’s leading twentieth-century artists, photographed in their youth over the course of Hosoe’s career. Subjects include the butoh dancers Tatsumi Hijikata, Kazuo Ohno, Min Tanaka, and Yoko Ashikawa, alongside Yayoi Kusama, Yukio Mishima, Masuo Ikeda, Shuji Terayama, and Hosoe’s VIVO co-founder Akira Sato, among others. Limited to 1,500 unnumbered copies. This copy signed by Hosoe to the front free endpaper.

Book is in Fine Condition. Slipcase with a small chip to the tail fore-edge corner. Near Fine Condition.

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