World Food Books' programme is largely produced on Kulin Nation land. We acknowledge the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation as the first and continuing custodians of this land, and pay respect to their Elders past, present, and emerging.
World Food Books is an arts and special interests bookshop in Naarm / Melbourne. Founded in 2010, World Food Books is devoted to the presentation of a rotating, hand-selection of international art, design, literary and counterculture publications with an emphasis on the anti-traditional, the experimental, the avant-garde, the heretic, the marginal.
Presenting new titles alongside rare and out-of-print books, catalogues and journals spanning the fields of modern and contemporary art, design, photography, illustration, film, literature, poetry, cultural theory, philosophy, sexuality, popular and underground culture in its many radical forms, World Food Books wishes to encourage adventurous, thoughtful and open-minded reading, looking, writing, and exchange of publishing and ideas, both current and historical.
As well as our bookshop, located in Melbourne's historical Nicholas Building, all of our inventory is available internationally via our online mail-order service.
World Food Books semi-regularly co-ordinates "Occasions", a programme of exhibits and events at the bookshop and in partnership with other hosts (such as museums and art galleries) that develop out of the activities, relationships and content of the bookshop itself.
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Interested in selling your old books, catalogues, journals, magazines, comics, fanzines, ephemera? We are always looking for interesting, unusual and out-of-print books to buy. We only buy books in our fields of interest and specialty, and that we feel we can resell.
We base these prices on desirability, market value, in-print prices, condition and our current stock levels. We offer cash, store credit, and can take stock on consignment. All
about 25% of the price we expect to get when we sell them, or 30% in store credit. We base these prices on desirability, market value, in-print prices, condition and our current stock levels.
Sell your books any day of the week. You can drop them off and return later. If you have a lot of books, we can visit your Sydney home.
We buy books that we feel we can resell. We offer about 25 % of the price we expect to get when we sell them, or 30% in store credit. We base these prices on desirability, market value, in-print prices, condition and our current stock levels.
Philadelphia Wireman
03 August - 01 September, 2018
World Food Books is proud to announce our next Occasion, the first presentation of sculptures by Philadelphia Wireman in Australia.
The Philadelphia Wireman sculptures were found abandoned in an alley off Philadelphia’s South Street on trash night in 1982. Their discovery in a rapidly-changing neighbourhood undergoing extensive renovation, compounded with the failure of all attempts to locate the artist, suggests that the works may have been discarded after the maker’s death. Dubbed the "Philadelphia Wireman" during the first exhibition of this work, in 1985, the maker’s name, age, ethnicity, and even gender remain uncertain. The entire collection totals approximately 1200 pieces, all intricately bound together with tightly-wound heavy-gauge wire (along with a few small, abstract marker drawings, reminiscent both of Mark Tobey and J.B. Murry). The dense construction of the work, despite a modest range of scale and materials, is singularly obsessive and disciplined in design: a wire armature or exoskeleton firmly binds a bricolage of found objects including plastic, glass, food packaging, umbrella parts, tape, rubber, batteries, pens, leather, reflectors, nuts and bolts, nails, foil, coins, toys, watches, eyeglasses, tools, and jewellery.
Heavy with associations—anthropomorphic, zoomorphic, and socio-cultural responses to wrapped detritus—the totemic sculptures by Philadelphia Wireman have been discussed in the context of work created to fulfil the shamanistic needs of alternative religions in American culture. Curators, collectors, and critics have variously compared certain pieces to sculpture from Classical antiquity, Native American medicine bundles, African-American memory jugs, and African fetish objects. Reflecting the artist’s prolific and incredibly focused scavenging impulse, and despite—or perhaps enhanced by—their anonymity, these enigmatic objects function as urban artefacts and arbiters of power, though their origin and purpose is unknown. Philadelphia Wireman, whatever their identity, possessed an astonishing ability to isolate and communicate the concepts of power and energy through the selection and transformation of ordinary materials. Over the course of the past two decades, this collection has come to be regarded as an important discovery in the field of self-taught art and vernacular art.
Presented in collaboration with Fleisher-Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, and Robert Heald, Wellington.
Susan Te Kahurangi King
02 February - 10 March, 2018
Susan Te Kahurangi King (24 February 1951 - ) has been a confident and prolific artist since she was a young child, drawing with readily available materials - pencils, ballpoint pens and felt-tip markers, on whatever paper is at hand. Between the ages of four and six Susan slowly ceased verbal communication. Her grandparents William and Myrtle Murphy had developed a special bond with Susan so they took on caring responsibilities for extended periods. Myrtle began informally archiving her work, carefully collecting and storing the drawings and compiling scrapbooks. No drawing was insignificant; every scrap of paper was kept. The King family are now the custodians of a vast collection containing over 7000 individual works, from tiny scraps of paper through to 5 meter long rolls.
The scrapbooks and diaries reveal Myrtle to be a woman of great patience and compassion, seeking to understand a child who was not always behaving as expected. She encouraged Susan to be observant, to explore her environment and absorb all the sights and sounds. Myrtle would show Susan’s drawings to friends and people in her community that she had dealings with, such as shopkeepers and postal workers, but this was not simply a case of a grandmother’s bias. She recognised that Susan had developed a sophisticated and unique visual language and sincerely believed that her art deserved serious attention.
This was an unorthodox attitude for the time. To provide some context, Jean Dubuffet coined the term Art Brut in 1945 to describe work created by self-taught artists – specifically residents of psychiatric institutions and those he considered to be visionaries or eccentrics. In 1972 Roger Cardinal extended this concept by adopting the term Outsider Art to describe work made by non-academically trained artists operating outside of mainstream art networks through choice or circumstance. Susan was born in Te Aroha, New Zealand in 1951, far from the artistic hubs of Paris and London that Dubuffet and Cardinal operated in. That Myrtle fêted Susan as a self-taught artist who deserved to be taken seriously shows how progressive her attitudes were.
Susan’s parents Doug and Dawn were also progressive. Over the years they had consulted numerous health practitioners about Susan’s condition, as the medical establishment could not provide an explanation as to why she had lapsed into silence. Dawn educated herself in the field of homeopathy and went on to treat all twelve of her children using these principles – basing prescriptions on her observations of their physical, mental and emotional state.
Doug was a linguist with an interest in philosophy who devoted what little spare time he had to studying Maori language and culture. To some extent their willingness to explore the fringes of the mainstream made them outsiders too but it was their commitment to living with integrity and their respect for individuality that ensured Susan’s creativity was always encouraged.
Even though Susan’s family supported her artistic pursuits, some staff in schools and hospitals saw it as an impediment to her assimilation into the community and discouraged it in a variety of ways. Her family was not always aware of this and therefore did not fully understand why Susan stopped drawing in the early 1990s. However, rather than dwell on the challenges that Susan faced in pursuit of her artistic practice, they prefer to highlight her achievements. In 2008 Susan began drawing again in earnest, after an almost 20 year interruption, and her work is now shown in galleries around the world.
Susan grew up without television and has been heavily influenced by the comics she read as a child. She is absolutely fearless in the appropriation of recognizable characters, such as Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse, in her work. She twists their limbs, contorts their faces, compresses them together, blends them into complex patterned backgrounds - always imbuing them with an incredible energy. Although Susan often used pop culture characters in her work they are not naive or childlike. These are drawings by a brilliant self-taught artist who has been creating exceptional work for decades without an audience in mind.
Mladen Stilinović
"Various Works 1986 - 1999"
02 February 16 - September 10, 2016
Various works 1986 - 1999, from two houses, from the collections of John Nixon, Sue Cramer, Kerrie Poliness, Peter Haffenden and Phoebe Haffenden.
Including: Geometry of Cakes (various shelves), 1993; Poor People’s Law (black and white plate), 1993; White Absence (glasses, ruler, set square, silver spoon, silver ladel with skin photograph and wooden cubes), 1990-1996; Exploitation of the Dead (grey and red star painting, wooden painting, black spoon with red table, red plate), 1984-1990; Money and Zeros (zero tie, paintings made for friends in Australia (Sue, John, Kerrie), numbers painting), 1991-1992; Words - Slogans (various t-shirts) - “they talk about the death of art...help! someone is trying to kill me”, “my sweet little lamb”, “work is a disease - Karl Marx”; Various artist books, catalogues, monographs, videos; Poster from exhibition Insulting Anarchy; "Circular" Croatian - Australian edition; Artist book by Vlado Martek (Dostoyevsky); more.
Thanks to Mladen Stilinović and Branka Stipančić.
Jonathan Walker
Always Will Need To Wear Winter Shirt Blue + Ochre Small Check Pattern
21 August - 21 September, 2015
Untitled
I am not a great reader of poetry but I always return to the work of Melbourne poet, Vincent Buckley (1925- 1988). Perhaps I find his most tantalising piece to be not a finished poem but a fragment left on a scrap of paper discovered on his desk after the poet’s death.
The poetry gathers like oil
In the word-core, and spreads
It has its music meet,
Its music is in movement.
This fragment is more the shell left behind from a volatile thought than a finished poem. I find the last two lines honest but awkward whereas the first two lines work like an arrow. Most likely he could not find a resolution so it was left. Still, in its present form, it remains an eloquent testimony to the ultimate failure of a medium to express mobile thought and sensation, in Buckley’s case, through verbal language. It’s an important matter because this is something all artists have to deal with regardless of the medium.
I have never written a poem, however, I am forever copying fragments from books on paper scraps in a vain effort to fix certain notions in my head. At first, they function as bookmarks that are sometimes returned to when I open the book. But before long, as they accumulate, they fall out littering the table interspersed with A4 photocopies, bills, books and medications.
To return to Buckley’s fragment, the first two lines very much evoke how I paint nowadays. As you age, detail diminishes and patches of light become more luminous and float. I feel the most honest way of dealing with this is by smearing the oil paint on the canvas with the fingers and working close-up, blind. Only if the patches coalesce into an approaching image can the work gain a life.
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Jonathan Walker was born in Melbourne, Australia and brought up on a dairy farm in Gippsland. In the 1970’s he studied painting at RMIT and won the Harold Wright Scholarship to the British Museum, London. During the 1980’s he exhibited at Pinacotheca Gallery, Richmond and had work shown at the NGV and Heidi City Art Gallery. Over the same period he designed the cover for the “Epigenesi” LP by Giancarlo Toniutti, Italy and conducted a mail exchange work with Achim Wollscheid, Germany. The work with artists through the post resulted in an article published in the bicentenary issue of Art and Australia 1988. He showed in artist run spaces such as WestSpace in the 90’s and 2000’s, and until 2012, taught painting at Victoria University, which is where we (Colleen Ahern and Lisa Radford) as organisers of the exhibition, among many others, had the privilege of being his student.
Walker’s knowledge was imparted to students through the careful selection of music, literature, and artists found in books that he himself had ordered for the library. Walker’s strategy was the generosity of sharing his vast knowledge with references specific to each student and their context.
Walker’s paintings share a similar focus and intimacy.
This exhibition presents a small selection of recent paintings alongside a publication that includes Walker’s writing. Observational and analytical, Walker’s work is a type of material notation — the time of day, colour and how it is blended, the both specific and fleeting location of a reflection on lino or the question of whether a chair leg should be included in a painting.
Please join us on Friday August 21 between 6-8pm to celebrate the opening of the exhibition.
Curated by Colleen Ahern and Lisa Radford.
B. Wurtz
Curated by Nic Tammens
March 26 - April 4, 2015
B.Wurtz works from a basement studio in his home on Manhattan’s Lower East Side.
This local fact is attested to by the plastic shopping bags and newsprint circulars that appear in his work. As formal objects, they don’t make loud claims about their origins but nonetheless transmit street addresses and places of business from the bottom of this long thin island. Like plenty of artists, Wurtz is affected by what is local and what is consumed. His work is underpinned by this ethic. It often speaks from a neighborhood or reads like the contents of a hamper:
“BLACK PLUMS $1.29 lb.”
“Food Bazaar”
“USDA Whole Pork Shoulder Picnic 99c lb.”
“RITE AID Pharmacy, with us it’s personal.”
“H. Brickman & Sons.”
“Sweet Yams 59c lb."
Most of the work in this exhibition was made while the artist was in residence at Dieu Donne, a workshop dedicated to paper craft in Midtown. Here Wurtz fabricated assemblages with paper and objects that are relatively lightweight, with the intention that they would be easily transportable to Australia. This consideration isn’t absolute in Wurtz’s work, but was prescriptive for making the current exhibition light and cheap. Packed in two boxes, these works were sent from a USPS post office on the Lower East Side and delivered to North Melbourne by Australia Post.
Wurtz appears courtesy of Metro Pictures, New York.
Thanks to Rob Halverson, Joshua Petherick, Sari de Mallory, Matt Hinkley, Helen Johnson, Fayen d'Evie, Ask Kilmartin, Lisa Radon, Ellena Savage, Yale Union, and "Elizabeth".
John Nixon
"Archive"
December 15 - January 20, 2014
The presentation of John Nixon's archive offered a rare showcase of this extensive collection of the artist's own publications, catalogues, posters, ephemera, editions and more, from the mid 1980s onwards, alongside a selection of his artworks.
Organized by John Nixon, Joshua Petherick and Matt Hinkley.
"Habitat"
at Minerva, Sydney (organised by Joshua Petherick and Matt Hinkley)
November 15 - December 20, 2014
Lupo Borgonovo, Janet Burchill & Jennifer McCamley,
Lewis Fidock, HR Giger, Piero Gilardi, Veit Laurent Kurz,
Cinzia Ruggeri, Michael E. Smith, Lucie Stahl, Daniel Weil, Wols
Press Release:
“...It contained seven objects. The slender fluted bone, surely formed for flight, surely from the wing of some large bird. Three archaic circuitboards, faced with mazes of gold. A smooth white sphere of baked clay. An age-blackened fragment of lace. A fingerlength segment of what she assumed was bone from a human wrist, grayish white, inset smoothly with the silicon shaft of a small instrument that must once have ridden flush with the surface of the skin - but the thing’s face was seared and blackened.”
William Gibson, “Count Zero”, 1986
"Autumn Projects Archive"
Curated by Liza Vasiliou
March 6 - March 15, 2014
World Food Books, in conjunction with the Virgin Australia Melbourne Fashion Festival 2014, presented the Autumn Projects archive, consisting of a selection of early examples in Australian fashion with a particular interest in collecting designers and labels from the period beginning in the 1980’s, who significantly influenced the discourse of Australian Fashion.
Curated by Liza Vasiliou, the exhibition provided a unique opportunity to view pieces by designers Anthea Crawford, Barbara Vandenberg, Geoff Liddell and labels CR Australia, Covers, Jag along with early experimental collage pieces by Prue Acton and Sally Browne’s ‘Fragments’ collection, suspended throughout the functioning World Food Books shop in Melbourne.
H.B. Peace
presented by CENTRE FOR STYLE
November 14, 2013
"Hey Blinky, you say chic, I say same"
Anon 2013
H.B. Peace is a clothing collaboration between great friends Blake Barns and Hugh Egan Westland. Their pieces explore the divergences between 'character’ and ‘personality’ in garments....etc
Special Thanks to Joshua Petherick and Matt Hinkley of WFB and Gillian Mears
and a Very Special Thank you to Audrey Thomas Hayes for her shoe collaboration.
Janet Burchill & Jennifer McCamley
"Aesthetic Suicide"
May 10 - June 8, 2013
The first of our occasional exhibitions in the World Food Books office/shop space in Melbourne, "Aesthetic Suicide" presented a body of new and older works together by artists Janet Burchill & Jennifer McCamley, including videos, prints, a wall work, and publications.
During shop open hours videos played every hour, on the hour.
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
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.
1978 / 1979, Japanese
Softcover, 127 pages + 144 pages, 22.5 x 29 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Visual Message / Tokyo
$150.00 - Out of stock
First (1978) and second (1979) issues of Visual Message, the "comprehensive magazine of the visual age", published in Japan for a short period at the end of the 1970s. This explosive inaugural issue, co-edited by graphic designers Ikko Tanaka and Kazuya Uegami, and copywriter Shinya Nishimura and themed "Visual Scandal" is cover-to-cover packed with leading graphic artists, photographers, architects, textile designers, etc. from Japan and overseas including Tadanori Yokoo, Masao Saito, Harumi Yamaguchi, Masamichi Oikawa, Eiko Ishioka, Shigeo Fukuda, Tomi Ungerer, Masayuki Kurokawa, SITE, Tsunehisa Kimura, Tenmei Kano, Raymond Savignac, Katsumi Asaba, Ken Mori, Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Folon, Asai Shinpei, Marcel Duchamp, Rene Magritte, Herb Lubalin, Osamu Nagahama, M.C. Escher, Shiro Tatsumi, Hiroki Hayashi, Masayoshi Nakajo, Hiroshi Yoda, Hipgnosis, and many more.
Second 1979 issue of Visual Message is structured around the themes "Before/After" and "Scale" and again is cover-to-cover packed with leading graphic artists, photographers, architects, textile designers, etc. from Japan and overseas including Tadanori Yokoo, Philip Johnson, Hideo Yamashita, Seiji Takada, Takahisa Kamijō, Haruo Takino, Takenobu Igarashi, Akira Yokoyama, Hisaki Hiramatsu, Takamichi Ito, Tomoya Nakano, Shōji Yamagishi, and many more.
V.M. 1. Good copy. Some cover/spine wear/creases/small closed tear to edge.
V.M. 2. Very Good copy. Light general wear.
1990, Japanese
Softcover (w. dust jacket), 128 pages, 24 x 19 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Magazine House / Tokyo
$80.00 - Out of stock
Published in 1990, To Winter — Tokyo: A City Heading For Death is a beautiful, sentimental book of photographs taken in 1989 by Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki — a "homage to all living and perishing things taken while staring at the shadow of death approaching Mrs. Yōko". Yōko Araki was Nobuyoshi's wife who was hospitalised during the period these photos were taken in 1989 and died of ovarian cancer in January 1990. Araki captures the deep emotions and unconsciousness of the ever-changing city of Tokyo, through its public and most private lives. Also, at this time, buildings are being built in rapid succession and the landscape of Tokyo known to Araki, who grew up in the downtown area, was being lost. "This is a sentimental photo book that shows the death of my wife and the death of the city." From the afterword by Japanese author Toshiharu Itō, "To Winter and its sensuous undulations remind us that we all must join the procession of the dead, that we all are on the train heading for death. The flow of the photographs makes us recall the life of the dead in the landscape of the living. The father raged, the mother laughed, the wife wept.... Here, there, everywhere the dead are coming down. All kinds of thoughts pass through the mind in a frenzied dance. Those moments of life burst into the memory like stars. And all of us, every one, become shadows. Where else but photographs could tell us this? To Winter is perhaps a reminder of this very fact."
Text in English and Japanese.
Very Good copy.
1985, Japanese
Softcover (w. dust jacket), unpaginated, 30 x 21.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Tsurumakisha / Japan
$200.00 - In stock -
"Increase your pleasure without knowing it! "Libido" is proof that you live a healthy life. For beautiful women!" "Sexual performance that invites pure libido" (from cover)
Exceptionally rare and obscure "Mystery" Japanese photo-collage book by one Osamu Yokota, vividly illustrated cover to cover with full-bleed nude photographic poses combining meditation, yoga, kama sutra set into psychedelic graphic collage, published in 1985! Like a Japanese mix of Penny Slinger's Mountain Ecstasy and John Champ's Yoga For Men, this instructional book is without words (only a short instruction list on the inside of the dust jacket), inviting the viewer to relax to ambient music, pick a page at random and breathe into the poses illustrated by the female instructors to find the cosmic force of "Qi" within. "A mysterious book that increases the power of the pyramid by 250%" (?) Playful hippy studio photography cut to Yokoo-esque cosmic graphic forces — one of a kind!
Very Good copy in VG dust jacket preserved under mylar wrap.
1982, Japanese / English
Softcover, 204 pages, 29 x 29 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Comme des Garçons / Tokyo
$3400.00 - Out of stock
The almost mythological, rarest of the extremely rare, Comme des Garçons 1975-1982.
Self-published by Comme des Garçons in 1982, this absolutely stunning softcover volume assembles the most comprehensive collection from the seminal Japanese fashion label's earliest campaigns. It has all the pre Paris collections, from the first campaign in 1975 running through to the first years in Paris (1981/1982), featuring the photography of Deborah Turbeville, early Peter Lindbergh, Sarah Moon, early Bruce Weber, Kazumi Kurigami, Sachiko Kuru, Hajime Sawatari (!), Daiho Yoshida, Arthur Elgort, and other photographers. So many seldom seen early Japanese shoots of the earliest of Rei's collections! Over 200 pages of black and white (and some select colour) photography, printed in Japan on gorgeous, warm, uncoated paper stock.
One of the most sought after fashion photography/reference books ever produced. A magical, ephemeral object, and a must for any devoted fan or fashion collection.
Very Good copy. Beautifully preserved with tanning to pages/old yellow marking from old tape on inside of covers (not outer). No spine creasing. Preserved in plastic sleeve.
1986, Japanese
Hardcover (cloth-bound in slip-case), 152 pages, 36.5 x 29 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Chikuma Shobo / Tokyo
Comme des Garçons / Tokyo
$900.00 - In stock -
"Comme des Garçons 1981—1986" is one of the most beautiful and sought after fashion photo-books ever published.
Since the inception of Japanese fashion label Comme des Garçons in 1969, founder Rei Kawakubo applied a particular aesthetic to every aspect of Comme des Garçons, extending her vision to the company's packaging, furniture, interior design, graphic design, and publishing, including a selection of some of the fashion world's most visually compelling and challenging books and printed materials.
This wonderful and very iconic collection of photographs presents Rei Kawakubo's groundbreaking, innovative designs from an exciting period of Comme des Garçons history, between 1981 and 1986, as photographed by some of the most important fashion photographers of our time, including Arthur Elgort, Hans Feurer, Eddy Kohli, Peter Lindbergh, Steven Meisel, Paolo Roversi, Oliviero Toscani, and Bruce Weber, among others.
This gorgeous and incredibly rare clothbound volume, housed in original printed cardboard slip-case, perfectly captures a very important and exciting moment in the history of fashion, and is considered one of the most-collectable and prized fashion photo-books to come out of the 1980s.
Very Good-Fine copy preserved in Very Good cardboard slipcase with only light tanning / light wear.
1972, Japanese
Softcover (3 vols), 21 x 14.8 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by
Taiyo books / Japan
$90.00 - Out of stock
Lot of 3 issues of SM KING, all published in 1972 in Japan by Taiyo books. A legendary Japanese magazine in the world of BDSM, with each issue featuring many colour and b/w photographs, illustrations, and stories on the subject of bondage in Japan. All texts in Japanese.
All issues Good-Very Good condition.
1972, Japanese
Softcover, 214 pages, 20.8 x 14.7 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by
Tokyo Sanseisha / Tokyo
$120.00 - Out of stock
"Sadistic Play of Bondage"
Very rare 1972 special photobook edition of legendary cult kinbaku magazine SM Select. A beautiful volume, packed cover to cover with full-bleed bondage photography in saturated 1970s colour and b/w, printed on textured stocks, showcasing the talents of famous Japanese actresses and models such as Reiko Ike, Yuri Izumi, Naomi Tani, Junko Miyashita, Nana Minami, and many more. Barely any text, just photos!
First published in 1970, SM Select fast become the leading magazine that sparked the SM magazine boom in the 70's and 80's in Japan. Nobuyuki Miyasaka, Hiroshi Senda, Toshiyuki Suma (Uramado, Kitan Club), etc. and others were all founding members of the magazine, but with the growing popularity of SM culture and magazines during this period, many contributors went on to establish other SM publishing ventures — Shin Miyasaka and Toshiyuki Suma established Sun Publishing and launched SM Collector, while Seiko Ishikawa and three others from Tokyo Sanseisha moved to Shishobo and launched SM Fan. SM Select run for 20 years, ending in 1990.
Building from the foundations of its predecessors Kitan Club and Uramado, SM Select contained a harder, non-conformist and fanatic edge, featuring writings with more lavish visual SM content — photographs and artworks in colour and black and white. The high quality of photography and artwork ushered in a new era of SM publishing, with SM Select featuring many now legendary artists, including Haruo Shinozaki, Jun Yoshida, Toshio Saeki, Kazuyuki Minori, Minoru Nagao, Ruyo Yo, Yasuharu Maeda, Mino Mura Akira, Hiro Kato, Nishimura Haruhi, Kozumi Yuko, Kito Akatsuki, Oshima Yukio, Kirigaoka Hiroyuki, Lin Moonlight, Maeda Yasunari, Yuya Nohira, Nakao Kaoru, etc. Major contributors were Dan Oniroku and Aotaro Aki. The principal rope master was Toshiyuki Suma. Rope master and writer Chimuo Nureki had several guest appearances in the magazine and took over as principal master when Mr. Suma fell ill. Photographer Norio Sugiura was the main photographer in the magazine from the 1980s.
Average—Good copy with some cover creases and spine crease, light wear, old fragile binding.
1974, Japanese
Softcover, 202 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Kubo Shoten / Japan
$70.00 - Out of stock
February 1974, rare early issue of Suspense Magazine, the cult Japanese kinbaku magazine founded in 1965 and running for 15 years, edited by Haruo Shimamoto and Chimuo Nureki, packed with illustrated SM stories, lavish colour and b/w fetish artwork, sadistic cartoons, and gorgeous bondage photo spreads and vivid colour photographic fold-outs. This issue features bondage master Haruo Shimamoto, art feature by the legendary kinbaku/tattooed lady illustrator Kaname Ozuma, Akira Kito, Kazumu Kohinata, Toshiro Tama, stories by Aotaro Aki, Kaoru Fujimi, Higashiho Mitsuya, and many others.
Good—VG copy with light wear.
1998, Japanese
Softcover, 310 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Million Publishing / Tokyo
$80.00 - Out of stock
January 1998 issue of S&M Sniper, the cult glossy fetish magazine published in Japan between 1979 - 2009 that, unlike previous SM magazines, didn't centre so much around professional kinbakushi, favouring instead the exploration of new innovations of fetish and underground sex culture and emphasising the work of the models, stylists, make-up artists, and fashions designers, as much as the writers or photographers. The "new wave" of SM culture, embedded in 1980s underground music, fashion and visual art culture in Japan. Explicitly and profusely illustrated, issues are packed from cover-to-cover with all manner of SM and fetish photoshoots, illustrations, comics, essays, diaries, reports, exhibitions, reviews, interviews, and included regular contributors such as Masami Akita (Merzbow), Kazuo Kamimura, Domu Kitahara, Makoto Orui, Kinichi Tanaka, Nobuhiko Ansai, Masaaki Toyoura... Each issue is also brimming with amazing Japanese advertisements and classifieds for the latest bondage clubs, boutiques, fashion, toys, video and publication catalogues, hook-ups, phone sex, and much more. This issue includes Nobuyoshi Araki, Takashi Homma, Ken-ichi Murata, Masami Akita, Toyoura Masaaki, Aki Tanaka, Koji Nakano, Junko Takahashi, Tetsuo Amano, Domu Kitahara, Mayumi Oda, Gaijin Tokuno, all the usual and more... Not for the faint of heart.
Very Good copy.
1993, Japanese
Softcover, 300 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Million Publishing / Tokyo
$80.00 - Out of stock
March 1993 issue of S&M Sniper, the cutting-edge cult glossy fetish magazine published in Japan between 1979—2009 that, unlike previous SM magazines, didn't centre so much around professional kinbakushi, favouring instead the exploration of new innovations of fetish and underground sex culture and emphasising the work of the models, stylists, make-up artists, and fashions designers, as much as the writers or photographers. The "new wave" of SM counterculture, embedded in 1980s underground music, fashion and visual art culture in Japan. Explicitly and profusely illustrated, each issue came wrapped in the iconic hyper-stylized airbrushed front covers of artist Yosuke Onishi, veiling the core content of non-fiction realist degradation and an eclectic, expressive editorial of kinbaku and all manner of SM, and extreme fetish photoshoots, illustrations, comics, essays, diaries, reports, exhibitions, reviews, interviews, and included regular contributors such as SM archivist and noise musician Masami Akita (Merzbow), legendary SM writer and editor Dan Oniroku ("the most celebrated writer of popular SM novels in Japan"), features by legendary SM and seppuku performer, actress, and author Hiromi Saotome, features by contributing photographers Nobuyoshi Araki, Masaaki Toyoura, Kenichi Murata, Nobuhiko Ansai, Kinichi Tanaka, Domu Kitahara, sadistic BDSM trainer Shima Shikou, and regular writings by convicted murderer and cannibal Issei Sagawa!! Including his translations of Guido Crepax comics from Italian to Japanese. This was not a magazine like the others. Each issue is also brimming with amazing Japanese advertisements and classifieds for the latest bondage clubs, boutiques, dungeons, fashion, toys, video and publication catalogues, hook-ups, phone sex, and much more. This issue includes Nobuyoshi Araki, Kiyoshi Ikejiri, Yosuke Onishi, Domu Kitahara, Tadao Chigusa, Kenichi Yamakawa, Shima Shikou, Aki Ryo, Kinichi Tanaka, Wakao Takahashi, Chihiro Abe, Robert Mapplethorpe, Takashi Ishii, Hiroyuki Tanino, all the usual and more... Not for the faint of heart.
Very Good copy.
1989, Japanese
Softcover, 310 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Million Publishing / Tokyo
$80.00 - Out of stock
October 1989 issue of S&M Sniper, the cult glossy fetish magazine published in Japan between 1979 - 2009 that, unlike previous SM magazines, didn't centre so much around professional kinbakushi, favouring instead the exploration of new innovations of fetish and underground sex culture and emphasising the work of the models, stylists, make-up artists, and fashions designers, as much as the writers or photographers. The "new wave" of SM culture, embedded in 1980s underground music, fashion and visual art culture in Japan. Explicitly and profusely illustrated, issues are packed from cover-to-cover with all manner of SM and fetish photoshoots, illustrations, comics, essays, diaries, reports, exhibitions, reviews, interviews, and included regular contributors such as Masami Akita (Merzbow), Kazuo Kamimura, Domu Kitahara, Makoto Orui, Kinichi Tanaka, Nobuhiko Ansai, Masaaki Toyoura... Each issue is also brimming with amazing Japanese advertisements and classifieds for the latest bondage clubs, boutiques, fashion, toys, video and publication catalogues, hook-ups, phone sex, and much more. This issue includes Tadao Chigusa, Nobuyoshi Araki, Tsuguya Inoue, Joel Peter-Witkin, Robert Mapplethorpe, Wilhelm von Gloeden, Keizo Miyanishi, Sayoko Nakajima, all the usual and more... Not for the faint of heart.
Very Good copy.
1983, Japanese
Softcover, 250 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Million Publishing / Tokyo
$80.00 - Out of stock
November 1983 issue of S&M Sniper, the cult glossy fetish magazine published in Japan between 1979 - 2009 that, unlike previous SM magazines, didn't centre so much around professional kinbakushi, favouring instead the exploration of new innovations of fetish and underground sex culture and emphasising the work of the models, stylists, make-up artists, and fashions designers, as much as the writers or photographers. The "new wave" of SM culture, embedded in 1980s underground music, fashion and visual art culture in Japan. Explicitly and profusely illustrated, issues are packed from cover-to-cover with all manner of SM and fetish photoshoots, illustrations, comics, essays, diaries, reports, exhibitions, reviews, interviews, and included regular contributors such as Masami Akita (Merzbow), Kazuo Kamimura, Domu Kitahara, Makoto Orui, Kinichi Tanaka, Nobuhiko Ansai, Masaaki Toyoura... Each issue is also brimming with amazing Japanese advertisements and classifieds for the latest bondage clubs, boutiques, fashion, toys, video and publication catalogues, hook-ups, phone sex, and much more. This issue includes Nobuyoshi Araki, Oniroku Dan, Aki Uchiyama, Fumika Kitahara, all the usual and more... Not for the faint of heart.
Very Good copy.
2015, Japanese / English
Softcover (silkscreened cover), 40 pages, 21 x 30 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Akio Nagasawa Gallery / Tokyo
$240.00 - Out of stock
Signed limited edition of A Room by Daido Moriyama, published in 2015 by Akio Nagasawa Publishing. A very special photo book in variation. Created at a printing event at Akio Nagasawa Gallery in 2015, in homage to Moriyama's 1974 Printing Show performance, a selection of images were selected from a series of erotically charged photographs of female nudes and domestic items and assembled in various orders to create numerous page sequences for the print-runs. Features 2 different silkscreened covers that were available in a limited edition of 250 signed/numbered copies each. A lovely publication.
Daido Moriyama (Ikeda, Osaka, 1938) lives and works in Tokyo.He first trained in graphic design before taking up photography under Takeji Iwamiya and Eikoh Hosoe as an assistant.He became an independent photographer in 1964, publishing Nippon Gekijō Shashinchō (Japan Theater Photo Album) in 1968 and Shashin yo Sayounara (Farewell Photography) in 1972; the work showed the darker sides of urban life and the city.He has had a radical impact on the photographic and art world in both Japan and in the West, with his expressive style of 'are, bure, boke' (rough, blurred and out-of-focus) and of quick snapshots without looking in the viewfinder. Solo shows at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain in Paris solidified Moriyama's worldwide reputation, and in 2012, he became the first Japanese to be awarded in the category of Lifetime Achievement at the 28th Annual Infinity Awards hosted by the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York.
Signed by Daido Moriyama.
2018, Japanese / English / Chinese
Softcover, 3 volumes plus supplement, printed plastic bag
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by
NITESHA / Tokyo
$280.00 - In stock -
First, quickly out-of-print, complete limited-edition facsimile of all three issues the ground-breaking Japanese photography magazine Provoke. The short-lived Provoke, founded in 1968 by art critic Koji Taki (1928-2011), photographer Takuma Nakahira (1938-2015), poet Takahiko Okada (1939-1997), photographer Yutaka Takanashi, and later joined by Daido Moriyama, is nowadays recognized as a major contribution to postwar photography in Japan, featuring the country's finest representatives of protest photography, vanguard fine art and critical theory in only three issues ever published.
In 2018, marking the 50th year since Provoke had first appeared, this special edition was published by NITESHA, a secondhand bookshop in Tokyo who were fortunate to be able to purchase all three volumes of the original prints. Rather than merely putting them back on the market again for profit, they decided to make a reprint of these extremely rare and inaccessible issues that are currently only owned by a limited number of connoisseurs. Striving to stay as close to the original publications as possible, all three issues are accompanied by a supplementary volume containing all the original Japanese texts (essays, poetry, etc.) translated into both English and Chinese, including those by Takahiko Okada (excluded from Steidl's “The Japanese Box” reissue due to copyright issues). This facsimile reprint also maintains the original size of all of the images (unlike the cropped Steidl “The Japanese Box” reissue), making it the closest thing to the seldom seen originals.
Comes housed in the publisher's limited edition "Provoke" printed plastic bag, as first issued, making it a most complete copy of this book-set.
Provoke's goal was to mirror the complexities of Japanese society and its art world of the 1960s, a decade shaped by the country's first large-scale student protests. The subtitle for the magazine was “Provocative Materials for Thought,” and each self-published issue was composed of photographs, essays and poems. The movement yielded a wave of new books featuring innovative graphic design combined with photography: serialized imagery, gripping text-image combinations, dynamic cropping and the use of provocatively "poor" materials. The writings and images by Provoke's members - Taki, Nakahira, Okada, Takanashi and Moriyama - were suffused with the tactics developed by Japanese protest photographers such as Nobuyoshi Araki, Eikoh Hosoe and Shomei Tomatsu, who pointed at and criticized the mythologies of modern life. Provoke’s grainy, blurry, and out-of-focus photographs were initially ridiculed as are-bure-boke (a Japanese term meaning, literally, “rough, blurred and out-of-focus”) and stirred a great deal of controversy, yet it had created a strong impact inside and outside of the photography world during that time and its influence cannot be overstated.
PROVOKE 1: Softcover, 68 pages, 21 x 21 cm
PROVOKE 2: Softcover (w. printed wrap-around obi strip), 110 pages, 24.2 x 18 cm
PROVOKE 3: Softcover, 110 pages, 24 x 18.4 cm.
PROVOKE Textbook (English and Chinese translations), 24 x 18.4 cm
As New. This edition is now out-of-print, further re-prints have been made.
2003, English / Japanese / French
Softcover (w. dust jacket), 68 pages, 22 x 20 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by
Amus Arts Press / Japan
$100.00 - Out of stock
First edition of Kyoichi Tsuzuki's "Image Club" photo book, published in Japan in 2003. Image Club is a one-of-a-kind photographic glimpse at the constructed environments of a secret Tokyo bordello phenomenon called "ikemura" or "imeji kurabu" (image club). The Imekura-Image Club is a Japanese sexual role playing service in which fantasy sets of remarkably mundane environments (a commuter train, an office kitchen, a consulting room, a girl's bedroom...) are created for a customer to encounter an imekura girl of his dreams. Tsuzuki describes the strange phenomenon as "the far north of simulation art." The customer may want to molest a female commuter on the train, commit sexual harassment at the office or enter a young college student's room. It is a "temporary space that embodies delusions" and "a representation of the dynamism of an extremely Japanese imagination". Printed in full-page colour images, the rooms only pictured here devoid of human interaction, shot as empty interiors with an almost sterile gaze. Accompanying text by Kyoichi Tsuzuki in English, Japanese and French.
Kyoichi Tsuzuki (1956—) is a Japanese editor and photographer. After working as an editor and writer for the magazines "Popeye" and "BRUTUS", and whilst interviewing and compiling the "Art Random" series, Tsuzuki started taking photographs of unique environments specific to life in contemporary Japan. These photo collections have formed the cult, award-winning photo-books "ROADSIDE JAPAN", "TOKYO STYLE" and "Image Club", amongst others.
Fine copy with Fine Dust Jacket.
1984/5, Japanese
Softcover (staple-bound), 48 pages, 30 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by
Fiction Inc. / Tokyo
$60.00 - In stock -
Rare early 1984/5(?) issue of the great SALE2 periodical from Tokyo Japan, founded in 1984 by Makoto Orui, who later became art director for Purple magazine in France and Rockin’on magazine in Japan. SALE2 was active for about 14 years during the 1980s—1990s, published regularly as a sort-of fanzine/journal/catalogue/pocket-book by Fiction, Inc., a specialty shop and publisher of fetish and erotica in Tokyo in the 1980-90s. With Orui's distinct design SALE2 later developed an exclusive curated editorial set on ‘erotisism and its spiritual philosophy’, with each issue exploring different themes and features, heavy on fetishism and erotic art. These early issues however, although featuring erotic and fetish themes, were also an incredible showcase of a new wave of Japanese illustrators, graphic artists and photographers. They also covered punk and avant-garde music, with many interviews, articles and illustrations collaged together in the fanzine tradition with Orui's wonderful touch. A wonderful example of the finest in underground arts publishing in Tokyo in the 1980s.
SALE2 No. 4 Vol. 16 is a special 1984/5 new year calendar issue that features articles on Nobuyoshi Araki, Man Ray, Ryuchi Sakamoto, an interview with John Lydon, an illustrated article on eroticism (with Helmut Newton, Pierre Molinier, Allen Jones, and others pictured), artwork by Terry Johnson, Sachiko Nakamura, Dan Takasuge, Yu Fujimoto, Hiromasa Katoh, Tadamasa Yokoyama, and much more...
All texts in Japanese.
Good copy with cover wear and spine pinches of stiff board covers.
1971, Japanese / English
Softcover (w. original slipcase), 184 pages, 22.5 cm x 28 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
A.D.A Edita / Tokyo
$120.00 - Out of stock
Scarce first issue from 1971 of this now classic 1970's architectural series, the great GI (Global Interior) from Tokyo, Japan.
One of the finest interior architecture journal series ever published, GI "The Series of Global Interior" came from the producers of the highly esteemed GA (Global Architecture), GA Document, GA Houses, etc. architectural publications.GI was produced throughout the 1970's in a total of ten volumes. Each large volume highlighted a selection of architectural projects by renowned international architects, some volumes focusing on a specific architect entirely, and highlighted their work for houses and domestic spaces.
Beautiful architectural photography of house interiors, exteriors and room details of living spaces, along with texts (mostly in Japanese) and floorplans/elevation drawings make up the profiles on each featured building or environment. The visual generosity of these handsomely designed and printed journals (each more a book than a magazine) make them a treasure for any architecture or interior design enthusiast or collector.
Edited and Presented by Yukio Futagawa
GI Global Interior #1
Houses in U.S.A.
1971
Contents include:
MLTW/Moore and Turnbull (Caygill House, McComber Houses, Hines House, Reid House, Sea Ranch Condominium); Joseph Esherick (Bermak House, Cary House);
John Lautner (Malin House); Edward A. Killingsworth (Case Study House No.25);
Craig Ellwood (Rosen House, Daphne House); Charles Eames (Eames House); Herbert Greene (Greene House); Bruce Goff (Price House); Eero Saarinen
(Miller House); Crites and McConnell (Crites House A, Crites House B); Charles W. Moore (Moore House); Edward L. Barnes (Country House); John M. Johansen (Taylor House); Richard Meier (Smith House, Saltzman House); Paul Rudolph (Hirsch house); Marcel Breuer (Gagarin House, Stillman House); Robert Venturi (Mrs. Venturi House)...
Very Good copy preserved in worn slipcase (light general wear)
1972, Japanese / English
Softcover, 184 pages, 22.5 cm x 28 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
A.D.A Edita / Tokyo
$120.00 - Out of stock
Rare second issue from 1972 of this now classic 1970’s architectural series, the great GI (Global Interior) from Tokyo, Japan.
One of the finest interior architecture journal series ever published, GI “The Series of Global Interior” came from the producers of the highly esteemed GA (Global Architecture), GA Document, GA Houses, etc. architectural publications.
GI was produced throughout the 1970’s in a total of ten volumes. Each large volume highlighted a selection of architectural projects by renowned international architects, some volumes focusing on a specific architect entirely, and highlighted their work for houses and domestic spaces.
Beautiful architectural photography of house interiors, exteriors and room details of living spaces, along with texts (mostly in Japanese) and floor-plans/elevation drawings make up the profiles on each featured building or environment. The visual generosity of these handsomely designed and printed journals (each more a book than a magazine) make them a treasure for any architecture or interior design enthusiast or collector.
Edited and Presented by Yukio Futagawa
GI Global Interior #2
Latin America
1971
Contents include:
Paulo A. Mendes Da Rocha (Da Rocha House); Joaquim Guedes (Pereira House); Carlos Millan (Millan House); Stroater & Antonacio (Carvalho House); Arnald A. Martino (Martino House); Paulo Sergio S. Silva (Silva House); Oscar Niemeyer (Niemeyer House); Sergio Bernandes (Bernandes House); Luis Barragan (Barragan House); Jaime Ortiz Monasterio (Obregon House); Francisco Artigas (Artigas House); Artigas & Luna (House in San Angel); Francisco Artigas (Rojas House); Manuel Gonzarez Rul (House in Tlacopac); Juan O’Gorman (O’Gorman House); David Muñoz Suarez(House in Tecamachalco); Martinez, Avendaño & Sotomayer (Santos House A, Santos House B); Martinez & Avendaño (Martinez House, Ochoa House); Susana Prias de Kovacs (Kovacs House); Oscar Tenreiro (Tenreiro House); Carmona & Puig (Toro House); Carlos Raúl Villanueva (Villanueva House in La Florida, Villanueva House in Caraballeda)…
Very Good copy with slipcase (wear and marks).
1972, English / Japanese
Softcover, 184 pages, 22.5 cm x 28 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
A.D.A Edita / Tokyo
$120.00 - Out of stock
Rare fourth issue from 1972 (complete with original issue printed slip-case) of this now classic 1970’s architectural series, the great GI (Global Interior) from Tokyo, Japan.
One of the finest interior architecture journal series ever published, GI “The Series of Global Interior” came from the producers of the highly esteemed GA (Global Architecture), GA Document, GA Houses, etc. architectural publications.
GI was produced throughout the 1970’s in a total of ten volumes. Each large volume highlighted a selection of architectural projects by renowned international architects, some volumes focusing on a specific architect entirely, and highlighted their work for houses and domestic spaces.
Beautiful architectural photography of house interiors, exteriors and room details of living spaces, along with texts (mostly in Japanese) and floor-plans/elevation drawings make up the profiles on each featured building or environment. The visual generosity of these handsomely designed and printed journals (each more a book than a magazine) make them a treasure for any architecture or interior design enthusiast or collector.
Edited and Presented by Yukio Futagawa
GI Global Interior #4
Southern Europe
1972
Contents include:
Harnden & Bombelli (House in Malaga), Harnden & Bombelli (Cluster House in Port-Lligat), Harnden & Bombelli (Summer House in Port-Lligat), Harnden & Bombelli (Summer House in Montras), José Antonio Coderch (Tapies House), José Antonio Coderch (House in San Cugat del Valles), José Antonio Coderch (House in Sitges), Antonio Bonet (Villa La "Ricarda"), Tobia Scarpa (Scarpa House), Tobia Scarpa (Benetton House), Angelo Mangiarotti (House in Cisano), Angelo Mangiarotti (Bianchi House), Baldassini, Bichocchi & Monsani (House in Castiglione della Pescaia), Calro Moretti (House in Crenna), Vittoriano Vigano (House along Lake Garda), Luigi Moretti (Villa "La Saracena"), Piero Sartogo (Summer House in Circeo), Piero Sartogo (Cluster House in Circeo), Piero Sartogo (Sartogo House), Morassutti & Gussoni (Carlevaro House), Gio Ponti & Nanda Vigo (House in Malo), Umberto Riva (House in Taino), Cini Boeri (House in Osmate), Vico Magistretti (Cassina House)...
…
Very Good copy.
1973, English / Japanese
Softcover, 184 pages, 22.5 cm x 28 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
A.D.A Edita / Tokyo
$120.00 - Out of stock
Rare fifth issue from 1973 (complete with original issue printed slip-case) of this now classic 1970’s architectural series, the great GI (Global Interior) from Tokyo, Japan.
One of the finest interior architecture journal series ever published, GI “The Series of Global Interior” came from the producers of the highly esteemed GA (Global Architecture), GA Document, GA Houses, etc. architectural publications.
GI was produced throughout the 1970’s in a total of ten volumes. Each large volume highlighted a selection of architectural projects by renowned international architects, some volumes focusing on a specific architect entirely, and highlighted their work for houses and domestic spaces.
Beautiful architectural photography of house interiors, exteriors and room details of living spaces, along with texts (mostly in Japanese) and floor-plans/elevation drawings make up the profiles on each featured building or environment. The visual generosity of these handsomely designed and printed journals (each more a book than a magazine) make them a treasure for any architecture or interior design enthusiast or collector.
Edited and Presented by Yukio Futagawa
GI Global Interior #5
Apartment Interiors
1973
Contents include:
Apartment interior profiles by Nanda Vigo, Cini Boeri, Carla Venosta, Ettore Sottsass Jr., Joe Colombo, Gae Aulenti, Baldassini, Bicocchi and Monsani, Vico Magistretti, Piero Sartogo, Salvati and Tresoldi, Mario Bellini, Carlo Moretti, Francois Catroux, Taller de Arquitectura, Paul Rudolph ...
Very Good copy preserved in worn slipcase (spine tanning and general wear).
1974, English / Japanese
Softcover (w. original cardboard slipcase), 182 pages, 22.5 cm x 28 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
A.D.A Edita / Tokyo
$120.00 - In stock -
Rare seventh issue from 1974 (complete with original issue printed slip-case) of this now classic 1970’s architectural series, the great GI (Global Interior) from Tokyo, Japan.
One of the finest interior architecture journal series ever published, GI “The Series of Global Interior” came from the producers of the highly esteemed GA (Global Architecture), GA Document, GA Houses, etc. architectural publications.
GI was produced throughout the 1970’s in a total of ten volumes. Each large volume highlighted a selection of architectural projects by renowned international architects, some volumes focusing on a specific architect entirely, and highlighted their work for houses and domestic spaces.
Beautiful architectural photography of house interiors, exteriors and room details of living spaces, along with texts (mostly in Japanese) and floor-plans/elevation drawings make up the profiles on each featured building or environment. The visual generosity of these handsomely designed and printed journals (each more a book than a magazine) make them a treasure for any architecture or interior design enthusiast or collector.
Edited and Presented by Yukio Futagawa
GI Global Interior #7
Houses in Northern Europe 2
1974
Contents include:
Rennie Mackintosh (Mackintosh and Hill House), Tarquini Martensson, Jorn Utzon, Ralph Erskine, K. Gullichsen and J. Pallasmaa, Erkki Kairamo, Gerrit Thomas Rietveld ― A. van Eijck, Aldo van Eijck, Gerrit Thomas Rietveld, E. J. Jelles, Van der Grinten, Heijdenrijk and Manche, Atelier 5, Erich Schneider―Wessling, Krier, Siemer and Siwik, Richard and Su Rogers, Richard Rogers and Norman and Wendy Foster, Peter Biihlmann …
1974, English / Japanese
Softcover, 182 pages, 22.5 cm x 28 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
A.D.A Edita / Tokyo
$120.00 - Out of stock
Rare eighth issue from 1972 (complete with original issue printed slip-case) of this now classic 1970’s architectural series, the great GI (Global Interior) from Tokyo, Japan.
One of the finest interior architecture journal series ever published, GI “The Series of Global Interior” came from the producers of the highly esteemed GA (Global Architecture), GA Document, GA Houses, etc. architectural publications.
GI was produced throughout the 1970’s in a total of ten volumes. Each large volume highlighted a selection of architectural projects by renowned international architects, some volumes focusing on a specific architect entirely, and highlighted their work for houses and domestic spaces.
Beautiful architectural photography of house interiors, exteriors and room details of living spaces, along with texts (mostly in Japanese) and floor-plans/elevation drawings make up the profiles on each featured building or environment. The visual generosity of these handsomely designed and printed journals (each more a book than a magazine) make them a treasure for any architecture or interior design enthusiast or collector.
Edited and Presented by Yukio Futagawa
GI Global Interior #8
Houses in Southern Europe 2
1974
Architects profiled include:
F. Higueras Diaz and A. Milo, E. Marquez, Antonio Bonet, Harnden and Bombelli, Luis Clotet and Oscar Tusquets, Antonio Fernandez Alba, Vittoriano Vigano, A. Salvati and A. Tresoldi, Federico Motterle, Ico e Luisa Parisi, G.+L. Bicocchi, R. Monsani, L. Baldassini, , Nanda Vigo and Franco fiorio, E. Bonfanti, C. Macchi-Cassia and M. Porta, P. Derossi, G. Ceretti, R. Rosso...
Very Good copy preserved in worn slipcase (spine tanning and general wear).
1996, Japanese
Softcover (w. dust jacket and obi strip), 192 pages, 15 x 23 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Heibonsha / Tokyo
$90.00 - Out of stock
First edition of Araki's "Chiro, Araki and 2 Lovers", published as part of the Complete Works collection. A lovely collection of Araki's photographs of he and his wife Yoko's beloved cat, Chiro, in a variety of different moods and situations. On the balcony and on the roof of the neighborhood, on the sofa, in the shower, in Yoko's arms, on the sleeping belly of Araki... The figure of Chiro behaving freely, and Araki taking the shutter to love it. Poignant in retrospect as it includes a number of photos of Chiro with Yoko. Like Masahisa Fukase's "Sasuke", this is an intimate book for cats and photographers.
Nobuyoshi Araki was born in Tokyo in 1940. Given a camera by his father at the ripe age of twelve, Araki has been taking pictures ever since. He studied photography and film at Chiba University and went into commercial photography soon after graduating. In 1970 he created his famous Xeroxed Photo Albums, which he produced in limited editions and sent to friends, art critics, and people selected randomly from the telephone book. Over the years, his bold, unabashed photographs of his private life have been the object of a great deal of controversy and censorship (especially in his native Japan), a fact that has not fazed the artist nor diminished his influence. To date, Araki has published over 400 books of his work.
Very Good in good dust jacket with some wear, obi with some wear.