World Food Books

Kishin Shinoyama
Hair

1994, Japanese
Softcover (w. dust jacket and obi strip),
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Shincho Sha / Tokyo

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First 1994 edition of Hair by Kishin Shinoyama, his glossy full-colour photo collection of elegant nudes where the focal point is women's pubic hair, the forbidden fruit of Japanese censorship laws.

Kishin Shinoyama was born in Tokyo in 1940. He began shooting award-winning advertising photography while still a student at Nihon University. After several years with the advertising agency Light Publicity, Shinoyama began working as an independent photographer in 1968. In the decades since, he has taken portraits of some of the most recognized people of our time, including Yukio Mishima, Momoe Yamaguchi, Rie Miyazawa, and John Lennon and Yoko Ono. In his Gekisha and Shinorama series, Shinoyama has used the latest technologies to create new modes of expression. His recent digital multimedia project digi KISHIN brings a new perspective to both photography and cinema He has dedicated his practice to exploring intimacy and the human body, as well as documenting his home place of Tokyo. His sensual photographs often depict the body within the architecture of the city or conversely, the inherent sculptural qualities of the naked human form.

Near Fine copy with good obi strip.

File under: Kishin Shinoyama Shincho Sha / Tokyo Eros Out-of-print / Rare Japanese Photography Photography

Camera
April 1969 ("Out of Fashion")

1969, English
Softcover, 66 pages, 29 x 22.5 cm
1st UK Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by C. J. Bucher Ltd. / Lucerne

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First English edition of the April 1969 issue of Switzerland's legendary Camera - International Magazine of Photography and Cinematography. Wonderful issue with the topic of the month being "Out of Fashion", featuring the photographic work of Jeanloup Sieff, Sam Haskins, Will McBride, Kishin Shinoyama, John Pfahl, and William Larson.

Very good copy with creases to back cover only, common light curling to both glossy covers.

File under: Jeanloup Sieff Will McBride John Pfahl Sam Haskins William Larson Kishin Shinoyama C. J. Bucher Ltd. / Lucerne Periodicals Eros Japanese Photography Photography Out-of-print / Rare SALE Art

Super Bizarre Collection
Photographs by Masatoshi Osanai

1989, Japanese
Softcover, 115 pages, 18.2 x 25.6 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Million Publishing / Tokyo Taiyo Tosho / Japan

$90.00 - Out of stock

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Rare and amazing 1989 special edition Japanese fetishwear catalogue showcasing clothing and paraphernalia — latex, rubber, leather, gag, underwear, footwear, heel and boot, tool... An incredibly stylish and gorgeous design throughout, with wonderful erotic photography "SCENES" shot by Masatoshi Osanai, featuring the talents of Hitomi Kudo, Junko Kanae, Sayoko Nakajima, Rinko Tachibana, Hana Inoue, Hidemi Hayakawa. Published by S&M Sniper's Million imprint and Taiyo Tosho, the photo collection is also interspersed with hypertexts to compliment the imagery — small articles covering themes of Biomechanoid Restraints, Industrial Baroque, Bondage Dolls, etc. and photo clippings of complimentary erotic photographers — Helmut Newton, Bob Carlos Clark, David Bailey, Robert Mapplethorpe, Joel-Peter Witkin, Nobuyoshi Araki, Kishin Shinoyama, plus art clippings — Christo, Minimal Art, Eric Satie, Arvo Pärt, etc... why you wonder? Possibly because it was designed by Ryuichi Sakamoto! Very sophisticated fetishism from Japan.

VG—NF copy, slight bowing.

File under: Masatoshi Osanai Hitomi Kudo Junko Kanae Sayoko Nakajima Rinko Tachibana Hana Inoue Hidemi Hayakawa Helmut Newton Bob Carlos Clark David Bailey Robert Mapplethorpe Nobuyoshi Araki Kishin Shinoyama Joel Peter Witkin Ryuichi Sakamoto Million Publishing / Tokyo Taiyo Tosho / Japan Eros Fashion Japanese Photography Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Fetishism / BDSM

The Geijutsu Seikatsu No. 291, Nov 1973
"Doll Love" Special Feature

1973, Japanese
Softcover, 182 pages, 25.5 x 18.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by The Geijutsu Seikatsu / Tokyo

$70.00 - Out of stock

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Magnificent "Doll Love" Special Feature issue of The Geijutsu Seikatsu, one of the leading arts magazines in post-war Japan, with a cover feature shot by Kishin Shinoyama on Japanese doll master Simon Yotsuya. From Hans Bellmer to Hajime Sawatari's doll photography to the Ayakashi Doll Museum shot by Shigeo Anzaï to the metaphysics of "Doll Love" written by the great Tatsuhiko Shibusawa, this issue is filled with photographic features and articles on doll artists, doll museums, western automatons, karakuri dolls... plus a photo feature on Nakamura Utaemon, considered the greatest onnagata (male actors who play female roles in kabuki theatre) of the post-War period ("a divine messenger given to kabuki from heaven"), performing the legendary Japanese ghost story "Yotsuya Kaida", and much much more (Kobayashi Kiyochika, Tadanori Yokoo, Hisako Nishino, Yasufumi Konishi, Yosuke Inoue...). Always a treasure-trove!

Good copy with some wear and creases to covers.

File under: Masuo Ikeda Hans Bellmer Hajime Sawatari Kishin Shinoyama Simon Yotsuya Tadanori Yokoo Francisco de Goya Yosuke Inoue Shigeo Anzai Kobayashi Kiyochika Hisako Nishino Yasufumi Konishi Nakamura Utaemon Tatsuhiko Shibusawa The Geijutsu Seikatsu / Tokyo Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Art Painting Performance / Dance / Theater Sculpture / Installation Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Surrealism Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Japanese Photography Occult / Esoterica Symbolism / Decadence / Fin de siècle

Saki Takaoka / Kishin Shinoyama
one, two, three

1995, Japanese
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 32 x 27 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Bunkasha / Japan

$140.00 - In stock -

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First 1995 hardcover edition of "one, two, three", a gorgeous oversized hardcover collection of nude photography by master Japanese photographer Kishin Shinoyama of award-winning actress Saki Takaoka. Takaoka was born in Kanagawa in 1972 and has appeared in many films, TV dramas, commercials, and musicals. Composed of black-and-white and colour works, this book became a hot topic in society at the time of its publication and recorded an astounding circulation of approximately 470,000 copies, which is unthinkable today. The number of sales and topicality are certainly very high, but the beauty of the photographs, and above all, the beauty of Saki Takaoka, who does not wear a single thread, can be said to be a work of art from head to toe. The atmosphere of monochrome printing is also very wonderful. A stunning book with beautiful, modern, pared back typographic design.

Very Good copy of clothbound 1st edition with Good dust jacket with wear and some chipping to spine/extremities.

File under: Kishin Shinoyama Saki Takaoka Bunkasha / Japan Eros Out-of-print / Rare Japanese Photography Photography Film / Video

Simon Yotsuya
Pygmalionisme — Doll Love / L'amour des Poupées (photography by Kishin Shinoyama)

1985 / 1993, Japanese
Softcover (w. acetate dust jacket and obi), 128 pages, 33 x 25 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Bijutsu Shuppan-sha / Japan

$170.00 - Out of stock

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Revised 1993 edition of the incredible book of Japanese doll artist Simon Yotsuya, Doll Love / L'amour des Poupées, shot by Kishin Shinoyama, first published in 1985 by Bijutsu Shuppan-sha, Tokyo. This stunning over-sized book is the finest photographic document of Simon's dolls created throughout his career, all dramatically shot by legendary Japanese photographer, and close friend of Yotsuya, Kishin Shinoyama, profusely illustrated in full colour gloss with each doll, including various angles, details, and display cases, accompanied by a section of Japanese texts by Tatsuhiko Shibusawa, Yoshiaki Tono, Minoruyoshioka, Shuzotakiguchi, and Kunio Iwaya, illustrated in b/w with portraits of Simon Yotsuya in his studio, his drawings and graphic works. Our favourite book on this magical artist.

Simon Yotsuya (b. 1944, Tokyo) started making dolls as a child, visiting exhibitions of dolls, and reads all the books he can find on the subject. In his mid-teens he visited Puppe Kawasaki, a doll maker and animator he greaty admired, devoting himself to the craft and becoming a poor high school student. In the early '60s, while working at a jazz coffee shop in Shinjuku, Yotsuya earned the nickname "Simon" (pronounced “Simone”), after his love for singer Nina Simone. He befriends Kuniyoshi Kaneko (painter) and Junko Koshino (fashion designer) and joins in the arts and literary scene. In 1965, he discovers the work of German Surrealist Hans Bellmer through an article authored by Tatsuhiko Shibusawa in the magazine “Shinfujin”, promptly abandoning his previous methods of doll-making to find his way as an artist, incorporating ball-joints into his dolls. Thereafter he becomes an admirer of Surrealism and immerses himself in the controversial Shibusawa's litterary works. In 1965, he also goes to see Tatsumi Hijikata's Butoh Performance for the first time. In the late 60s—early 70s Yotsuya pursued a parallel career to his doll-making as an actor and member of Juro Kara's legendary underground theater company Jokyo Gekijo, Situation Theater, regularly portraying a female doll. He appears in the movie "Diary of a Shinjuku Thief" directed by Nagisa Oshima with the actors of the Situation Theater, but by 1971 he leaves the stage to concentrate on his own work. Simon exhibited at Expo 1970 in Osaka, the Tokyo Biennale in 1974 and by the end of the decade had opened his own doll-making school in Harajuku.

Tatsuhiko Shibusawa (1928—1987), the author of the influential Bellmer article (and novelist, editor, art critic, and translator of Bataille and Marquis de Sade), become a life-long friend of Yotsuya's and his most important advocate, editing the first major book of Yotsuya's work, entitled Pygmalionisme, in 1985. Devastated by Shibusawa's death in 1987, Yotsuya found it impossible to work for nearly two years. He eventually found solace in the Eastern Orthodox Church and was inspired to make a series of angels, which he dedicated to Shibusawa, and straightforward images of Christ. Having carved out his own masterful and unique form of expression, today Yotsuya enjoys international renown as the first ball-jointed doll maker in Japan.

Very Good copy with light edge wear to cover and publisher's jacket.

File under: Simon Yotsuya Kishin Shinoyama Tatsuhiko Shibusawa Yoshiaki Tono Minoruyoshioka Shuzotakiguchi Kunio Iwaya Bijutsu Shuppan-sha / Japan Eros Sculpture / Installation Art Japanese Photography Out-of-print / Rare Surrealism Performance / Dance / Theater

Simon Yotsuya
Pygmalionisme — Doll Love / L'amour des Poupées (photography by Kishin Shinoyama)

1985, Japanese
Softcover (w. acetate dust jacket), 128 pages, 33 x 25 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Bijutsu Shuppan-sha / Japan

$190.00 - Out of stock

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First edition of the incredible book of Japanese doll artist Simon Yotsuya, Doll Love / L'amour des Poupées, shot by Kishin Shinoyama, published in 1985 by Bijutsu Shuppan-sha, Tokyo. This stunning over-sized book is the finest photographic document of Simon's dolls created throughout his career, all dramatically shot by legendary Japanese photographer, and close friend of Yotsuya, Kishin Shinoyama, profusely illustrated in full colour gloss with each doll, including various angles, details, and display cases, accompanied by a section of Japanese texts by Tatsuhiko Shibusawa, Yoshiaki Tono, Minoruyoshioka, Shuzotakiguchi, and Kunio Iwaya, illustrated in b/w with portraits of Simon Yotsuya in his studio, his drawings and graphic works. Our favourite book on this magical artist.

Simon Yotsuya (b. 1944, Tokyo) started making dolls as a child, visiting exhibitions of dolls, and reads all the books he can find on the subject. In his mid-teens he visited Puppe Kawasaki, a doll maker and animator he greaty admired, devoting himself to the craft and becoming a poor high school student. In the early '60s, while working at a jazz coffee shop in Shinjuku, Yotsuya earned the nickname "Simon" (pronounced “Simone”), after his love for singer Nina Simone. He befriends Kuniyoshi Kaneko (painter) and Junko Koshino (fashion designer) and joins in the arts and literary scene. In 1965, he discovers the work of German Surrealist Hans Bellmer through an article authored by Tatsuhiko Shibusawa in the magazine “Shinfujin”, promptly abandoning his previous methods of doll-making to find his way as an artist, incorporating ball-joints into his dolls. Thereafter he becomes an admirer of Surrealism and immerses himself in the controversial Shibusawa's litterary works. In 1965, he also goes to see Tatsumi Hijikata's Butoh Performance for the first time. In the late 60s—early 70s Yotsuya pursued a parallel career to his doll-making as an actor and member of Juro Kara's legendary underground theater company Jokyo Gekijo, Situation Theater, regularly portraying a female doll. He appears in the movie "Diary of a Shinjuku Thief" directed by Nagisa Oshima with the actors of the Situation Theater, but by 1971 he leaves the stage to concentrate on his own work. Simon exhibited at Expo 1970 in Osaka, the Tokyo Biennale in 1974 and by the end of the decade had opened his own doll-making school in Harajuku.

Tatsuhiko Shibusawa (1928—1987), the author of the influential Bellmer article (and novelist, editor, art critic, and translator of Bataille and Marquis de Sade), become a life-long friend of Yotsuya's and his most important advocate, editing the first major book of Yotsuya's work, entitled Pygmalionisme, in 1985. Devastated by Shibusawa's death in 1987, Yotsuya found it impossible to work for nearly two years. He eventually found solace in the Eastern Orthodox Church and was inspired to make a series of angels, which he dedicated to Shibusawa, and straightforward images of Christ. Having carved out his own masterful and unique form of expression, today Yotsuya enjoys international renown as the first ball-jointed doll maker in Japan.

Very Good copy with light edge wear to cover and publisher's jacket.

File under: Simon Yotsuya Kishin Shinoyama Tatsuhiko Shibusawa Yoshiaki Tono Minoruyoshioka Shuzotakiguchi Kunio Iwaya Bijutsu Shuppan-sha / Japan Eros Surrealism Sculpture / Installation Performance / Dance / Theater Japanese Photography Out-of-print / Rare Art

Simon Yotsuya
Pygmalionisme

2000, Japanese
Hardcover, 222 pages, 28 x 20 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Oita City Art Museum / Oita

$160.00 - Out of stock

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Scarce copy of the stunning hardcover survey of Japanese doll artist Simon Yotsuya, published on the occasion of a major retrospective that travelled Japan between 2000—2002. All the works of Simon Yotsuya are included, from his earliest examples to his latest works — his "Innocent Things: Young Boys and Girls," "Tempting Things: Women," "Automatic Things: Mechanical Devices," "Heavenly Things: Angels and Christ," "Creations of the Self: Simon," "Unfinished Things and Homage to Bellmer" — all beautifully photographed by Japan's leading photographers, including most by Simon's friend and master photographer Kishin Shinoyama, along with many photos of Simon Yotsuya in his parallel career as a female (doll) actor in the 1960s-70s Japanese avant-garde theatre scene. Along with essays, biography, bibliography, chronology, this comprehensive book includes important articles, magazines, and posters. A gorgeous book that will appeal to any fan. Despite his popularity in Japan, Simon Yotsuya's monographic books are surprisingly few in number.

Simon Yotsuya (b. 1944, Tokyo) started making dolls as a child, visiting exhibitions of dolls, and reads all the books he can find on the subject. In his mid-teens he visited Puppe Kawasaki, a doll maker and animator he greaty admired, devoting himself to the craft and becoming a poor high school student. In the early '60s, while working at a jazz coffee shop in Shinjuku, Yotsuya earned the nickname "Simon" (pronounced “Simone”), after his love for singer Nina Simone. He befriends Kuniyoshi Kaneko (painter) and Junko Koshino (fashion designer) and joins in the arts and literary scene. In 1965, he discovers the work of German Surrealist Hans Bellmer through an article authored by Tatsuhiko Shibusawa in the magazine “Shinfujin”, promptly abandoning his previous methods of doll-making to find his way as an artist, incorporating ball-joints into his dolls. Thereafter he becomes an admirer of Surrealism and immerses himself in the controversial Shibusawa's litterary works. In 1965, he also goes to see Tatsumi Hijikata's Butoh Performance for the first time. In the late 60s—early 70s Yotsuya pursued a parallel career to his doll-making as an actor and member of Juro Kara's legendary underground theater company Jokyo Gekijo, Situation Theater, regularly portraying a female doll. He appears in the movie "Diary of a Shinjuku Thief" directed by Nagisa Oshima with the actors of the Situation Theater, but by 1971 he leaves the stage to concentrate on his own work. Simon exhibited at Expo 1970 in Osaka, the Tokyo Biennale in 1974 and by the end of the decade had opened his own doll-making school in Harajuku.
Tatsuhiko Shibusawa (1928—1987), the author of the influential Bellmer article (and novelist, editor, art critic, and translator of Bataille and Marquis de Sade), become a life-long friend of Yotsuya's and his most important advocate, editing the first major book of Yotsuya's work, entitled Pygmalionisme, in 1985. Devastated by Shibusawa's death in 1987, Yotsuya found it impossible to work for nearly two years. He eventually found solace in the Eastern Orthodox Church and was inspired to make a series of angels, which he dedicated to Shibusawa, and straightforward images of Christ. Having carved out his own masterful and unique form of expression, today Yotsuya enjoys international renown as the first ball-jointed doll maker in Japan.

Very Good—Fine copy.

File under: Kishin Shinoyama Junko Koshino Tatsumi Hijikata Kuniyoshi Kaneko Simon Yotsuya Toshihiro Asakura Taiji Aritai Yasuhiro Ishimoto Noriaki Kano Hajime Sawatari Bishin Jumonji Eiko Hosoe Koichi Miyazaki Ichiro Morita Tatsuhiko Shibusawa Oita City Art Museum / Oita Art Sculpture / Installation Performance / Dance / Theater Japanese Photography Out-of-print / Rare

Le Sang et La Rose No. 1, 1968

1968, Japanese / French
Softcover, 228 pages, 23 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Tensei Shuppan / Tokyo

$110.00 - Out of stock

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Revue de Érotologie, Homosexualité, Sadisme, Masochisme, Fétischisme, Narcissime, Infantilisme, Magie, Occultisme, Humour Noir, Complexe Psychisme. What more could you ask for? Le Sang Et La Rose is a masterpiece of the Japanese underground. A groundbreaking, powerful, yet short-lived Japanese arts and literary journal published in Tokyo from late 1968—mid 1969, published in a total of four luxurious, now collectible, volumes. The first three issues were edited by Tatsuhiko Shibusawa (1928—1987), a legendary, controversial Japanese novelist, art critic, translator of French writers such as Jean Cocteau, Georges Bataille and Marquis de Sade, and specialist in medieval demonology. The importance of this magazine to the Japanese avant-garde and radical culture cannot be overstated.

Born from a period of political, social and economical turmoil in Japan, Le Sang Et La Rose may be understood as a emblematic distillation and product of the late ‘60s student rebellion and anti-authoritarian underground culture. Wilfully politically subversive, the publication drew upon a vast range of perspectives - from criticism, literature, obscure esoteric sciences, art, eroticism, radical avant-garde and a historical-rooted Japanese counterculture; featuring literature, theory, art, photography, illustration and graphic design from the most innovative and subversive Japanese and international (predominately French) artists, authors and critics, spanning the themes above. As instigator, Tatsuhiko Shibusawa in effect formulated the magazine’s design to be a spiritual and political operative that would weaponize its readers minds. This stance was made clear in the 1969 manifesto text — "My 1969" — in which Shibusawa discuss' how he perceived the ‘60s as being the age of ideas, ideas as weapons, and outlined a distain towards systems of power, moralism, State oppression, sanitised and harmless liberalism, dogmatic academic sciences and an outright distrust for ideological, progressive literary scholars who advocate "freedom of expression", but have never caused friction with the judicial power. The magazine sketched out an aim to push towards a new kind of personal freedom, intellect, autonomy and moral compass. Here, the concept of ‘erotism’ — as discussed by Georges Bataille in his highly influential 1957 book "Erotism: Death and Sensuality" — acts as a critical force. 

Issue no. 1 (1968) sets the scene perfectly, opening with Japanese author Yukio Mishima depicted as Saint Sebastian by photographer Kishin Shinoyama in a pictorial feature "Les Morts Masculines", a photographic homage to Georges Bataille that also features the photography of Eikoh Hosoe, Ikkō Narahara, Masahisa Fukase, and Osamu Hayasaki, with models including Butoh founder Tatsumi Hijikata, actor Akira Mita, author Tatsuhiko Shibusawa, actor Jin Nakayama, playwright Jūrō Kara, and others. Other features include " All Japanese are Perverse" — stories by Japanese writers including Yukio Mishima, Taruho Inagaki, Yutaka Haniya, Shinji Sōya; Henry Miller's letters to Anais Nin; a colour gallery of artwork by Belgian painter Paul Delvaux; articles on Vampire fantasy in the arts (including many original illustrations; Witches (illustrated by James Ensor); Oriental Eros, Ancient Indian poetry; Kama Sutra; female bi-sexuality; the history of gay (Danshoku) theatre in Japan; the full-colour art gallery "Masturbation Machine", featuring avant-garde artists Natsuyuki Nakanishi, Masuo Ikeda, Setsu Nagasawa, Carlos Marchioli, Kuniyoshi Kaneko, Masakazu Horiuchi, Tadanori Yokoo, Koji Suzuki, Tommy Ungerer; the fully illustrated museum supplement "Pain and Pleasure : On Torture" by Tatsuhiko Shibusawa with artworks throughout history; pornographic stories by Guillaume Apollinaire and Nicolas Restif de la Bretonne (who coined the term "Pornographer"); fiction by Pierre Morion (pseudo. André Pieyre de Mandiargues); critic Jin'ichi Uekusa on the controversial writings of Roger Peyrefitte, illustrations by Ernst, Bellmer, Labisse, Fini, Lam, and much more.

Tatsuhiko Shibusawa (1928—1987), was a well-known and controversial Japanese novelist, art critic, and translator of French writers such as Jean Cocteau, Georges Bataille and Marquis de Sade. In 1960 he and his publisher, Kyōji Ishii, were trialled for public obscenity over the publishing of Shibusawa's translation of de Sade's Juliette into the Japanese language. What was to be known as the "Sade Trial" took 9 years and although many of Japan's leading authors testified for the defense, in 1969 the Japanese Supreme Court ruled them guilty and charged. This did not deter Shibusawa, whose essays on black magic, demonology and eroticism were popular reading in Japan, and in 1981 he was awarded the 9th Izumi Kyoka Literature Prize.

Good copy with some spine damage and tanning/wear.

File under: Max Ernst Léonor Fini Felix Labisse Wilfredo Lam Hans Bellmer Paul Delvaux Natsuyuki Nakanishi Masuo Ikeda Setsu Nagasawa Carlos Marchioli Kuniyoshi Kaneko Masakazu Horiuchi Tadanori Yokoo Koji Suzuki Tommy Ungerer Tatsumi Hijikata Tatsuhiko Shibusawa Eikoh Hosoe Ikkō Narahara Masahisa Fukase Osamu Hayasaki Kishin Shinoyama James Ensor Tatsuhiko Shibusawa Jin'ichi Uekusa Roger Peyrefitte Yukio Mishima Taruho Inagaki Yutaka Haniya Shinji Sōya Henry Miller Suehiro Tanemura Guillaume Apollinaire Andre Pieyre De Mandiargues Nicolas Restif de la Bretonne Jūrō Kara Tensei Shuppan / Tokyo Fiction / Poetry Japanese Photography Occult / Esoterica Philosophy Photography Art Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Fetishism / BDSM LGBTQ+ Eros Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Counterculture Surrealism Symbolism / Decadence / Fin de siècle Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Ancient / Medieval / Gothic

Le Sang et La Rose No. 3, 1969

1969, Japanese / French
Softcover, 232 pages, 23 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Tensei Shuppan / Tokyo

$110.00 - Out of stock

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Revue de Érotologie, Homosexualité, Sadisme, Masochisme, Fétischisme, Narcissime, Infantilisme, Magie, Occultisme, Humour Noir, Complexe Psychisme. What more could you ask for? Le Sang Et La Rose is a masterpiece of the Japanese underground. A groundbreaking, powerful, yet short-lived Japanese arts and literary journal published in Tokyo from late 1968—mid 1969, published in a total of four luxurious, now collectible, volumes. The first three issues were edited by Tatsuhiko Shibusawa (1928—1987), a legendary, controversial Japanese novelist, art critic, translator of French writers such as Jean Cocteau, Georges Bataille and Marquis de Sade, and specialist in medieval demonology. The importance of this magazine to the Japanese avant-garde and radical culture cannot be overstated.

Born from a period of political, social and economical turmoil in Japan, Le Sang Et La Rose may be understood as a emblematic distillation and product of the late ‘60s student rebellion and anti-authoritarian underground culture. Wilfully politically subversive, the publication drew upon a vast range of perspectives - from criticism, literature, obscure esoteric sciences, art, eroticism, radical avant-garde and a historical-rooted Japanese counterculture; featuring literature, theory, art, photography, illustration and graphic design from the most innovative and subversive Japanese and international (predominately French) artists, authors and critics, spanning the themes above. As instigator, Tatsuhiko Shibusawa in effect formulated the magazine’s design to be a spiritual and political operative that would weaponize its readers minds. This stance was made clear in the 1969 manifesto text — "My 1969" — in which Shibusawa discuss' how he perceived the ‘60s as being the age of ideas, ideas as weapons, and outlined a distain towards systems of power, moralism, State oppression, sanitised and harmless liberalism, dogmatic academic sciences and an outright distrust for ideological, progressive literary scholars who advocate "freedom of expression", but have never caused friction with the judicial power. The magazine sketched out an aim to push towards a new kind of personal freedom, intellect, autonomy and moral compass. Here, the concept of ‘erotism’ — as discussed by Georges Bataille in his highly influential 1957 book "Erotism: Death and Sensuality" — acts as a critical force. 

Issue no. 3 (with cover by Bronzino, 1554) includes full-colour photographic feature by Kishin Shinoyama ("Virgin In Uniform" featuring models/artists Angela Asaoka, Akaji Maro, Yoko Ashikawa) and beautiful Shomei Tomatsu photo feature ("Scoptophilia"), the artwork of the great French cross-dressing painter-photographer Pierre Molinier, texts by Jirō Kawamura, Yumiko Kurahashi, Taruho Inagaki ("Memories of Hemorrhoids or "New Tsurezuregusa"), Akiyuki Nosaka ("Dear Penis, Goodbye"), Minoru Minamihara ("The Mystic Thought of Love in the Case of Jakob Böhme"), Takiji Kobayashi, The Fictitious Garden of Babylon by Tatsuhiko Shibusawa, Tsunekazu Murata ("Witch's Ax : Concerning Heresy in Medieval Europe"), translation of Franz Kafka "Metamorphosis" illustrated by Franco Gentilini, recent research on homosexuality by film critic Jin'ichi Uekusa, Kama Sutra, more Gay (Danshoku) Japanese Theater history, Marquise de Blancvilliers by Koji Nakata, and much more.

Tatsuhiko Shibusawa (1928—1987), was a well-known and controversial Japanese novelist, art critic, and translator of French writers such as Jean Cocteau, Georges Bataille and Marquis de Sade. In 1960 he and his publisher, Kyōji Ishii, were trialled for public obscenity over the publishing of Shibusawa's translation of de Sade's Juliette into the Japanese language. What was to be known as the "Sade Trial" took 9 years and although many of Japan's leading authors testified for the defense, in 1969 the Japanese Supreme Court ruled them guilty and charged. This did not deter Shibusawa, whose essays on black magic, demonology and eroticism were popular reading in Japan, and in 1981 he was awarded the 9th Izumi Kyoka Literature Prize.

Very Good copy. Light general tanning/wear.

File under: Kishin Shinoyama Shomei Tomatsu Pierre Molinier Franco Gentilini Yokoo Tadanori Angela Asaoka Akaji Maro Yoko Ashikawa Tatsuhiko Shibusawa Franz Kafka Yukio Mishima Taruho Inagaki Jun’nosuke Yoshiyuki Kôichi Iijima Jûrô Kara Ikuya Kato Minoru Yoshioka Ryûichi Tamura The Marquis de Sade Georges Bataille Andre Pieyre De Mandiargues Jirō Kawamura Yumiko Kurahashi Akiyuki Nosaka Minoru Minamihara Jakob Böhme Takiji Kobayashi Tsunekazu Murata Jin'ichi Uekusa Tensei Shuppan / Tokyo Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Eros Fetishism / BDSM Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Japanese Photography Surrealism Philosophy Theory / Essay Fiction / Poetry Symbolism / Decadence / Fin de siècle Ancient / Medieval / Gothic Art Counterculture Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées LGBTQ+ Occult / Esoterica Photography Sociology / Politics

Tadanori Yokoo
PUSH

1972, Japanese
Softcover (w. french-fold dust jacket and printed cardboard slipcase w. original obistrip), 246 pages, 13 x 19.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Kodansha Int / Tokyo

$160.00 - Out of stock

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The very scarce and unique PUSH by Tadanori Yokoo, published in 1972 and featuring photography by Kishin Shinoyama and Daido Moriyama.

After a car accident in 1972 Tadanori Yokoo decided to take a two year hiatus from work at the height of his fame. PUSH is a visually inventive dairy of this period beautifully designed by Yokoo himself with colour nude girl photographs and b/w self-portraits of the artist by none other than Kishin Shinoyama, Daido Moriyama and Tadashi Krahashi. A gorgeous and curious production with humorous over-printing and incredible design, housed in original printed slipcase with the original publisher's obi-strip.

Tadanori Yokoo (b. 1936) is one of Japan's most successful and internationally recognized graphic designers and artists, who began working with painting in 1966. In parallel, Yokoo’s early screenprints experimented with collage and illustration, combining found photographs with the influence of traditional Japanese ukiyo-e and pop art’s flat vibrant colours and overtly sexual and grotesque content, often reflecting on the rapid changes and Westernisation of Japan post-war society. His interests in mysticism and esotericism, deepened by travels to India, influenced his iconic posters with eclectic psychedelic imagery sharing the aesthetics of the underground counterculture he was associated with. In Tokyo, Yokoo worked as a stage designer for avant-garde theatre, collaborating extensively with Shūji Terayama and his experimental theater group Tenjō Sajiki. By the late 60s he had already achieved international recognition and in the early 1970s MoMA mounted a solo exhibition of his graphic work. His famous designs for The Beatles, Miles Davis, Carlos Santana and collaborations with friend and iconic Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake are renowned the world over. He also starred as a protagonist in Nagisa Oshima's film Diary of a Shinjuku Thief in 1968.

Very Good—Near Fine copy, with only light wear and age. Very well preserved and complete.

File under: Daido Moriyama Kishin Shinoyama Tadashi Krahashi Tadanori Yokoo Tadanori Yokoo Kodansha Int / Tokyo Art Graphic Design / Typography Out-of-print / Rare Photography Drugs / Psychedelia Japanese Photography Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Pop Art Performance / Dance / Theater

Issey Miyake
East Meets West

1978, English / Japanese
Softcover, 216 pages, 36.5 x 25 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Heibonsha Limited Publishers / Tokyo

$160.00 - Out of stock

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Hands-down one of the greatest Issey Miyake books ever published - the classic "East Meets West" of 1978.

First edition of the iconic first book/folio dedicated to the work of Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake. Published by Heibonsha Limited Publishers of Tokyo in 1978, the book features beautiful photoshoots by the likes of Guy Bourdin, Richard Avedon, Kishin Shinoyama, Harry Peccinotti and David Bailey throughout, documenting Miyake's creations of the 1970s.
Broken into three sections ("Man and his Cloth", "The Form of Cloth" and "Witness of Time") the book texts include a preface by Diana Vreeland and essays by Mutsuo Takahashi, Arata Isozaki, and Eiko Ishioka.

Texts are in Japanese and English.
Very Good copy with light cover edge-wear, general light age.

File under: Issey Miyake David Bailey Guy Bourdin Kishin Shinoyama Harry Peccinotti Eiko Ishioka Arata Isozaki Richard Avedon Mutsuo Takahashi Arata Isozaki Eiko Ishioka Diana Vreeland Kazuko Sato Ikko Tanaka Heibonsha Limited Publishers / Tokyo Japanese Photography Photography Out-of-print / Rare Fashion

Issey Miyake
East Meets West

1978, Japanese / English
Softcover, oversized folio w. obi-strip, 216 pages, 36.5 x 25 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Heibonsha Limited Publishers / Tokyo

$150.00 - Out of stock

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Hands-down one of the greatest Issey Miyake books ever published - the classic "East Meets West" of 1978.

First edition of the iconic first book/folio dedicated to the work of Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake. Published by Heibonsha Limited Publishers of Tokyo in 1978, the book features beautiful photoshoots by the likes of Guy Bourdin, Richard Avedon, Kishin Shinoyama, Harry Peccinotti and David Bailey throughout, documenting Miyake's creations of the 1970s.
Broken into three sections ("Man and his Cloth", "The Form of Cloth" and "Witness of Time") the book texts include a preface by Diana Vreeland and essays by Mutsuo Takahashi, Arata Isozaki, and Eiko Ishioka.

Texts are in Japanese and English.

File under: David Bailey Guy Bourdin Harry Peccinotti Issey Miyake Kishin Shinoyama Richard Avedon Arata Isozaki Diana Vreeland Eiko Ishioka Ikko Tanaka Kazuko Koike Mutsuo Takahashi Heibonsha Limited Publishers / Tokyo Fashion Out-of-print / Rare Photography Japanese Photography Textiles

Evergreen Review
Vol. 13 No. 64 March 1969

1969, English
Softcover, 96 pages, 28 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Evergreen Review Inc. / New York

$20.00 - Out of stock

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Vol. 13 No. 64 March 1969 issue of Evergreen Review. With a cover photography by Kishin Shinoyama, this issue features "Leo in Jerusalem: diary by Leo Skir"; short stories by Aki Tanino, Joseph Skvorecky and Herbert Gold, poems by David Myers and Charles Plymell, The Dimensions of Community Control by Nat Hentoff, an interview with film director John Cassavetes, plus regular features, illustrations and much more.

The Evergreen Review was a U.S. based literary magazine founded by Barney Rosset, publisher of Grove Press, and editor Don Allen and Fred Jordan in 1957. It existed in print form until 1973. Evergreen Review debuted pivotal works by Samuel Beckett, Jorge Luis Borges, Charles Bukowski, William S. Burroughs, Marguerite Duras, Jean Genet, Allen Ginsberg, Günter Grass, Jack Kerouac, Norman Mailer, Henry Miller, Pablo Neruda, Vladimir Nabokov, Frank O’Hara, Kenzaburō Ōe, Octavio Paz, Harold Pinter, Susan Sontag, Tom Stoppard, Derek Walcott and Malcolm X. United States Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas wrote a controversial piece for the magazine in 1969. Kerouac and Ginsberg regularly had their writing published in the magazine. "Evergreen published writing that was literally counter to the culture, and if it was sexy, so much the better. In the context of the time, sex was politics, and the powers-that-be made the suppression of sexuality a political issue. The court battles that Grove Press fought for the legal publication of Lady Chatterly's Lover, Tropic of Cancer, and Naked Lunch, and for the legal distribution of the film I Am Curious: Yellow, spilled onto the pages of Evergreen Review, and in 1964, an issue of Evergreen itself was confiscated in New York State by the Nassau County District Attorney on obscenity charges...

File under: Kishin Shinoyama John Cassavetes Aki Tanino Leo Skir Nat Hentoff Evergreen Review Inc. / New York Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Film / Video Fiction / Poetry Theory / Essay Counterculture Eros Performance / Dance / Theater Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées

Kishin Shinoyama
Sounding Carib : Trinidad, Puerto Rico, Jamaica

1977, Japanese
Softcover (staple-bound w. map insert), 25.5 x 36.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Shogakukan / Tokyo

$80.00 - In stock -

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Incredible over-sized 1977 photo book by Kishin Shinoyama, one of Japan's leading photographers. "Sounding Carib" is a photographic special "seperate" edition of 1970s Japanese men's magazine GORO, and one of his lesser-known masterpieces that crosses over into his 1970's "Gekisha" works, a phrase Shinoyama coined for his “risqué photography” of the period. For this wonderful collection Kishin Shinoyama travelled to Trinidad and Tobago, Puerto Rico, and Jamaica, with camera and Olympus micro tape recorder in hand, to record the sights and sounds of the Caribbean. As the title suggests, the explosive photographic imagery follows the rhythm of the local music and festivities, with chapters titles "Trinidad : Carnival", "Puerto Rico : Salsa", and "Jamaica : Reggae", each exquisitely capturing the heat, the colour and the atmosphere of the islands. From the extravagant costumes and dizzying colour of the parades to the street markets, the beaches to the bedrooms, Shinoyama's saturated, deep contrast photographs, candid and uncensored, are a love-letter to the Caribbean of the 1970s. This special publication comes complete with a map insert to follow the journey, also musical listings to accompany the pictures. Kishin also recorded all the sounds of the trip and separately issued an LP of the same name, also through GORO magazine.

Very Good with some light general wear.

File under: Kishin Shinoyama Shogakukan / Tokyo Art Photography Japanese Photography Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Performance / Dance / Theater

Kishin Shinoyama
Big Goro Appointment Book Calendar '76

1976, Japanese / English
Softcover, 25.5 x 36.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Shogakukan / Tokyo

$80.00 - In stock -

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Lovely over-sized 1976 photo book by Kishin Shinoyama, one of Japan's leading photographers. This is a special photographic 1976 calendar edition of the Japanese "All-Colour Visual Magazine" or "Sounding Visual" men's magazine GORO, and a perfect example of Shinoyama's 1970's "Gekisha" works, a phrase Shinoyama coined for his “risqué photography” of the period. Cover to cover young female (mostly) nudes entirely shot by Shinoyama, mostly full-bleed and in vivid saturated colour, including many double-page spreads and perfectly designed photographic diary pages featuring mostly famous young Japanese actresses, musicians and pop idols of the period... including Hiromi Iwasaki, Momoe Yamaguchi, Junko Sakurada, Ann Lewis, Hiroko Hayashi, Hiromi Murachi, Nagisa Katahira, Midori Kinouchi, Agnes Chan, Yūko Asano, plus large photographic features with Kaori Takeda, Hitomi Fukuhara, Aki Mizusawa and many more. As friends and models, Shinoyama continued to photograph and collaborate with many of these women throughout their careers, with some becoming the stars of his most celebrated photo-books. These collectible early special editions introduce the start of many of these collaborations, with wonderful 1970s design.

Good complete copy with some light general wear, spine pinching.

File under: Kishin Shinoyama Hiromi Iwasaki Momoe Yamaguchi Junko Sakurada Ann Lewis Hiroko Hayashi Hiromi Murachi Nagisa Katahira Midori Kinouchi Agnes Chan Yūko Asano plus large photographic features with Kaori Takeda Hitomi Fukuhara Aki Mizusawa Shogakukan / Tokyo Japanese Photography Eros Photography Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals

Keiko Oginome + Kishin Shinoyama
Accidents 2 "Breezy Day"

1998, Japanese
Softcover (w. dust jacket and obi), unpaginated, 20 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Asahi Press / Japan

$80.00 - Out of stock

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First edition of the second publication of Kishin Shinoyama's "Accidents" series of books. Shinoyama established these lovely photo books in the late 1990s as a way to present the consequential photographs that would develop from commercial nude photoshoots with his models. Each book represents a collaboration between the photographer and one model, Accidents 2 "Breezy Day" presenting a shoot with Japanese actress Keiko Oginome. Shinoyama had close friendships with many of his regular models, working closely with them throughout their entire careers. The "accidental photographs", unrestricted by the editorial outcome of the icon "pin-up", unfold with an intimacy, tenderness and freedom that carry with it the passing of time between the photographer and model, sometimes over one shoot, at others across ages. Lavishly illustrated throughout in colour and black and white.

Very Good w. VG dust jacket.

File under: Kishin Shinoyama Keiko Oginome Asahi Press / Japan Art Film / Video Japanese Photography Photography Out-of-print / Rare Eros

Kanako Higuchi + Kishin Shinoyama
Accidents 1 "Water Fruit"

1998, Japanese
Softcover (w. dust jacket), unpaginated, 20 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Asahi Press / Japan

$80.00 - Out of stock

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First edition of the first publication of Kishin Shinoyama's "Accidents" series of books. Shinoyama established these lovely photo books in the late 1990s as a way to present the consequential photographs that would develop from commercial nude photoshoots with his models. Each book represents a collaboration between the photographer and one model, Accidents 1 "Waterfruit" presenting a shoot with Japanese actress Kanako Higuchi. Shinoyama had close friendships with many of his regular models, working closely with them throughout their entire careers. The "accidental photographs", unrestricted by the editorial outcome of the icon "pin-up", unfold with an intimacy, tenderness and freedom that carry with it the passing of time between the photographer and model, sometimes over one shoot, at others across ages. Lavishly illustrated throughout in colour and black and white.

Very Good w. VG dust jacket.

File under: Kishin Shinoyama Kanako Higuchi Asahi Press / Japan Eros Japanese Photography Photography Film / Video Out-of-print / Rare Art

Kishin Shinoyama
28 Girls by Kishin Shinoyama

1968, Japanese / English
Softcover, 100 pages, 25.5 x 36.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Camera Mainichi and The Mainichi Graphic / Japan

$200.00 - In stock -

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First edition of the ambitious, and much acclaimed, first nude photography book by Kishin Shinoyama (b. 1940, Tokyo), well known in the west for photographing the covers for John Lennon and Yoko Ono's albums, Double Fantasy and Milk and Honey. A marvel of 1960s radical nude photography, published in 1968 by Camera Mainichi, "28 Girls" is widely considered to be one of the most important Japanese photobooks of the 20th Century. Breaking sharply from the traditional treatment of the nude as an ideal of beauty in favour of the wild expressionism of nature, Shinoyama applied experimental and psychedelic techniques such as solarization and favoured a variety of regular girls, artists, performers, pop idols, and friends as models over the traditional glamour physique with exceptional, and very unconventional, results. Decadent, grotesque, absurd and sensuous all at once. Only ever published in this first spectacular format — the iconic, pop colour-saturated oversized softcover with fold-out spreads. Art Directed by Gan Hosoya with an illustration by Makoto Wada. Texts in Japanese and English by Yukio Mishima and Makato Wada. A stunning, complex and surprising piece of photo publishing, unlike any other, cited in Ryuichi Kaneko & Ivan Vartanian's Japanese Photobooks of the 1960s and 70s.

Good copy (general light wear/tanning to edges/spine from age, foxing, general handling wear from large size)

File under: Kishin Shinoyama Gan Hosoya Camera Mainichi and The Mainichi Graphic / Japan Japanese Photography Photography Eros Drugs / Psychedelia Art

Kishin Shinoyama
Playgirl (Pin-Up) Winter 1973

1973, English
Softcover (w. posters), 36.9 x 25.9 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Shueisha / Japan

$80.00 - In stock -

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Rare first issue of Japan's Playgirl Pin-Up, published in 1973 in Tokyo. Oversized magazine full of full-colour nude photography by leading Japanese photographer Kishin Shinoyama, including appendix fold-out poster and the commonly missing large double-sided folded calendar poster of Maria Anzai and Reika Yamakawa photographed by Shinoyama, loosely inserted.

Very Good copy, complete with original posters.

File under: Kishin Shinoyama Shueisha / Japan Out-of-print / Rare Japanese Photography Photography

Comme des Garçons
Mémoires De La Mode

1998, Japanese / English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 79 pages, 22 x 16 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Korinsha Press / Japan

$140.00 - Out of stock

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First Japanese edition of this wonderful hardcover, clothbound volume that collects the printed material of Comme des Garçons between 1982 and 1997. Archiving their most iconic posters, "Six", advertisements for magazines, a poster for the opening of the flagship store in Tokyo Aoyama, invitation cards for fashion shows, and greeting cards. Includes the work of Peter Lindbergh, Cindy Sherman, Enzo Cucchi, Gilbert & George, Peter Fischli & David Weiss, Kishin Shinoyama, Paolo Roversi, Claude Cahun, André Kertesz, Weegee, James Lee Byars, Louise Nevelson, Lilo Hess, Georg Fischer, Jesus Rafael Soto, Gerhard Richter, and so many more.

Text by Art Historian France Grand (in Japanese).
Art directed by Tsuguya Inoue, known for his iconic work as art director at Comme des Garçons, Suntory, Parco and many others.
Design by Kentaro Kobayashi.

Printed and bound in Italy.

Very Good copy with dust jacket. Light tanning to spine. Signature to front end paper we cannot decipher ("... Tokyo '98").

File under: Comme des Garçons Rei Kawakubo Peter Lindbergh Cindy Sherman Enzo Cucchi Gilbert & George Peter Fischli & David Weiss Kishin Shinoyama Paolo Roversi Claude Cahun Weegee James Lee Byars Louise Nevelson Lilo Hess Georg Fischer Jesus Rafael Soto Gerhard Richter Tsuguya Inoue Kentaro Kobayashi André Kertész France Grand Korinsha Press / Japan Art Out-of-print / Rare Fashion Japanese Photography Photography

Kishin Shinoyama
135 Women and Friends

1979, Japanese
Softcover (w. dust jacket), 27.6 x 21 cm
Out of print title / used / good
Published by Shogakukan / Tokyo

$100.00 - Out of stock

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Huge photographic compendium of famed Japanese photographer Kishin Shinoyama's commercial "Gekisha" works for 1970s Japanese men's magazine GORO and other sun-kissed commercial nude portrait work, featuring mostly full-bleed vivid colour photoshoots of 135 young models, mostly famous Japanese actresses and pop idols of the period... including Momoe Yamaguchi, Aki Mizusawa, Saori Minami, Aiko Morishita, Yūko Asano, Hiromi Iwasaki, Kumiko Oba, Nana Okada, Ikue Sakakibara, Junko Sakurada, Keiko Takeshita, Satomi Tezuka, Masako Natsume, Akiko Nishina, Mieko Harada, Aiko Morishita... even The Runaways. As friends and models, Shinoyama continued to photograph and collaborate with many of these women throughout their careers. Includes summary of the shoots with magazines covers, spreads, outtakes, behind the scenes and commentary in Japanese.

Kishin Shinoyama was born in 1940, in Tokyo, Japan. He embarked on his career while studying in the Department of Photography at Nippon University, and was awarded the Advertising Photographer’s Association prize, among others. After being employed at the Light Publicity advertising company, he started to work as a freelance photographer in 1968. His work is acclaimed for the portraits of the most famous celebrities of our day and age, such as John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Rie Miyazawa, and other major personalities. In his “Gekisha” and “Shinorama” series, he carries on capturing the times using new forms of expression and new technologies. He is also an exponent of solarization and has used it to challenge preconceived ideas of beauty and the nude.

Very Good copy but glue binding has seperated, yet all content (book block) remains well-bound together to covers, so actually makes for better use! Otherwise nicely preserved with light wear and tanning to edges. In Good dust jacket.

File under: Kishin Shinoyama Shogakukan / Tokyo Photography Japanese Photography Out-of-print / Rare Art Eros

AKI MIZUSAWA―PHOTOGRAPHY KISHIN SHINOYAMA 1975‐1995

1995, Japanese
Softcover (w. dust jacket), 150 pages, 27 x 21 cm
Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Shogakukan / Tokyo

$90.00 $60.00 - Out of stock

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Beautiful Japanese photobook by famed Japanese photographer Kishin Shinoyama, published in 1995. This entire photographic collection is dedicated to Shinoyama's photographs of his friend, Japanese actress and model Aki Mizusawa (1954-) spanning 1975‐1995. “It is extremely rare for a photographer to be able to shoot a single subject; one woman continuously for twenty years. Now, seeing all those images - as fleeting and instantaneous then as the magazines that carried them - revived and bound together gives that particular history a closure that weighs like marble. This book captures the twenty year photogenic evolution of a wonderful friend and subject, Aki Mizusawa. — Kishin Shinoyama

Kishin Shinoyama was born in 1940, in Tokyo, Japan. He embarked on his career while studying in the Department of Photography at Nippon University, and was awarded the Advertising Photographer’s Association prize, among others. After being employed at the Light Publicity advertising company, he started to work as a freelance photographer in 1968. His work is acclaimed for the portraits of the most famous celebrities of our day and age, such as John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Rie Miyazawa, and other major personalities. In his “Gekisha” and “Shinorama” series, he carries on capturing the times using new forms of expression and new technologies. He is also an exponent of solarization and has used it to challenge preconceived ideas of beauty and the nude.

Very Good copy in original dust jacket with publisher's obi strip.

File under: Kishin Shinoyama Aki Mizusawa Shogakukan / Tokyo Art Japanese Photography Photography Out-of-print / Rare Eros SALE

Kishin Shinoyama
Nude

1970, Japanese
Softcover, 100 pages, 26 x 36.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Mainichi Newspapers / Tokyo

$200.00 - In stock -

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"One of the most important Japanese photobooks ever published" - Kaneko & Vartanian, "Japanese Photobooks of the 1960s and 70s".

A first edition of this psychedelic masterpiece photo book by the extraordinary Japanese photographer Kishin Shinoyama (b. 1940, Tokyo), well known in the west for photographing the covers for John Lennon and Yoko Ono's albums, Double Fantasy and Milk and Honey. This over-sized book collects an iconic group of Shinoyama's radical early nude photographs including "Death Valley", "Twin", "Brown Lily", "Maki & Sinatra", "Phantom" and "Tokyo Fairy". In 1970, his exhibition NUDE - Kishin Shinoyama, which focused around his work in Death Valley, drew great attention and praise for its challenging images of the female form. Beautifully reproduced here for the first time in 1970, Shinoyama's Nude continues to be one of the most influential photo books published. AN in credible successor to Kishin's 28 Girls (1968), the artist took his ideas to an ambitious extreme in "Nude", traversing a great variety of themes, subjects, techniques and land(body)scapes that do-away with the conventions of glamour in favour of the wild expressionism of nature to create some of the most grand, psychological and psychedelic nude photography ever seen.

Good copy (general light wear/tanning to edges from age, light foxing to inner blank endpapers, general handling wear from large size)

File under: Kishin Shinoyama Mainichi Newspapers / Tokyo Art Eros Japanese Photography Out-of-print / Rare Photography Drugs / Psychedelia