Ta Wa Wa

Tatsuo Watanabe

Tokyo

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Dear Film Project

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2021

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First Edition.

21cm x 15cm. [32] pages, black and white illustrations. Pictorial saddle-stitched self-wrappers, glassine envelope.

One in the series of seven photozines in Dear Film Project’s THE CRAFTER series collaborating with TOKYO CULTUART by BEAMS reconstructing film photographs by seven photographers into seven 32 page saddle-stitched zine booklets each limited to 500 numbered copies. Ta Wa Wa is a series of nude portraits of a single woman. “A fertile woman like a clay figurine of Jomon, like a fruit that has grown fluffy. “Tatsuo Watanabe’s muse” may be a symbol of “warm and moist motherhood” that seems to have been lost in modern times.” (publisher’s blurb)

. Fine Condition.