World Food Books

Jonvelle
Mistress

1992 / 1993, English / Japanese
Softcover (w. dust jacket), unpaginated, 32 x 24 m
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Treville / Tokyo

$55.00 - In stock -

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First 1992 Japanese print edition (in 1993 printing) of French photographer Jonvelle's classic photo book of black and white female nudes from 1984. Assistant to Richard Avedon in the 1960s, Jean-Francois Jonvelle (1943—2002) shot fashion and glamor images for magazines Dim Dam Dom, Vogue, Stern, Gala, Elle, 20 Ans magazine, and others. "During his career, he made many portraits of women, often his friends: natural young people, often naked, unconcerned. Unlike other fashion and glamour photographers, who offer a provocative woman, Jean-François Jonvelle's performance is much softer, more natural, more jovial, but equally sensual."

Very Good copy in VG dust jacket.

File under: Jonvelle Jean-Francois Jonvelle Treville / Tokyo Eros Out-of-print / Rare Photography Fashion

Bernard Faucon
Summer Camp

1980, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 96 pages, 28 x 25.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Xavier Moreau / New York

$190.00 - In stock -

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Rare first English hardcover edition of "Summer Camp", the first and finest book encompassing the mythical first work from French photographer Bernard Faucon (b. Provence, 1951), published by Xavier Moreau in 1980. This incredible book won him the Prix du Livre Photo.

"Bernard Faucon’s photographic 'mise-en-scene' of children's games and rituals (using mannequins and an occasional live model), like the salaciously naïve narrative that accompanies them, convincingly perverts the notion of reality. For the real in Faucon's art is both the subtly delirious content of unusually memorable images and the heightened awareness of the feelings they arouse in us . . . freakish pleasure, irrational fear, unbridled fantasies, forbidden yearnings associated with recollections of our own youth. "The wonderful memories I am preparing for myself!" Faucon says of his magical games with time.

Roland Barthes ascribed his own profound fascination for Faucon's enigmatic images to the "marriage of heterogeneous species of reality." He detected in them: artificial mannequins posed in a natural land-scape with an occasional live sitter in their midst, casual life-like gesturing of figures endowed with perpetually smiling lifeless expressions, all of this captured in true-to-life Kodacolor. By a brilliant construction/deconstruction of the means of illusionism, Faucon reveals that he is not only an extremely talented photographer but an artist at the leading edge today.

Bernard Faucon (b. 1950 in Provence) is a French photographer and writer. Faucon spent his childhood in the clear blue sky and the lavender field, before attending the University of Paris Sorbonne, where he majored in philosophy. After graduating, he worked as a painter, then turned to photography. Faucon was one of the first photographers in the second half of the 20th century to systematically create and master the constructed image, gaining fame worldwide in the late 1970s when he started a new trend of mise en scène photo. His photographic work has a love of youth and dreamy beauty, using saturated colour, natural settings, rooms and often tableaux of mannequins. For more than 20 years, his staged photographs have been exhibited in international galleries such as Leo Castelli in New York, and Agathe Gaillard and Yvon Lambert in Paris.

Very Good—Near Fine copy in VG—Near Fine dust jacket with tanning to spine.

File under: Bernard Faucon Xavier Moreau / New York Photography Out-of-print / Rare

Bernard Faucon
Les papiers qui volent

1986, Japanese / French
Softcover (w. obi and plastic jacket), 26 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by PARCO / Tokyo

$90.00 - In stock -

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First edition of this Japanese book collection of works by French photographer Bernard Faucon, published by Parco in 1986 as part of the "Parco's Visual Works" series. This book includes work from all Faucon's major series to date (from "Summer Camp" onwards) reproduced in colour, with rarely seen behind the scenes portraits of Faucon, and text by Japanese author Kōbō Abe. Faucon's work became extremely popular in Japan in the 1980s.

"Bernard Faucon’s photographic 'mise-en-scene' of children's games and rituals (using mannequins and an occasional live model), like the salaciously naïve narrative that accompanies them, convincingly perverts the notion of reality. For the real in Faucon's art is both the subtly delirious content of unusually memorable images and the heightened awareness of the feelings they arouse in us"

Bernard Faucon (b. 1950 in Provence) is a French photographer and writer. Faucon spent his childhood in the clear blue sky and the lavender field, before attending the University of Paris Sorbonne, where he majored in philosophy. After graduating, he worked as a painter, then turned to photography. Faucon was one of the first photographers in the second half of the 20th century to systematically create and master the constructed image, gaining fame worldwide in the late 1970s when he started a new trend of mise en scène photo. His photographic work has a love of youth and dreamy beauty, using saturated colour, natural settings, rooms and often tableaux of mannequins. For more than 20 years, his staged photographs have been exhibited in international galleries such as Leo Castelli in New York, and Agathe Gaillard and Yvon Lambert in Paris.

Very Good copy.

File under: Bernard Faucon Kōbō Abe PARCO / Tokyo Out-of-print / Rare Photography

Ray Petri: Buffalo
Edited by Mitzi Lorenz

2000, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 184 pages, 34 x 26 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by PowerHouse / New York

$240.00 - In stock -

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Rare first 2000 English–language edition, first printing, in lavish over–sized hardcover. The finest volume devoted entirely to possibly the most influential stylist of the 1980's, Scottish-born Ray Petri (1948–1989), founder of the Buffalo collective, who defined the look of radical 1980s magazines The Face, i-D, and Arena.

"Many people have defined the 80s as the decade in which style triumphed over substance, but Petri’s work under the Buffalo “label” was, in many ways, the antithesis of what was dubbed the “matte-black designer decade.” Like the magazines The Face, i-D, and Arena, which showcased Petri’s work, Buffalo was far more logically a product of the DIY post-punk aesthetic than it was an embodiment of the self-consciously slick 80s image-making. Buffalo was, first and foremost, about a certain kind of hip, urban attitude—one not for sale in stores, but yours to create.

Buffalo quietly defined the look of 80s youth culture, especially in the UK, and this legacy of an uncompromisingly urban style has since inspired legions of designers, stylists, and photographers who were part of the gang, but who absorbed and understood the images and references and made them their own in cities the world over. From the simple combo of the ubiquitous MA-1 flight jacket and an old pair of Levi’s (Ray’s own uniform), to the rarified clothing produced by cutting-edge designers, Petri’s legacy of style—and the Buffalo stance—is still alive and making its presence felt on the biggest catwalk of them all: the street."–Kate Flett

Very Good copy in Good—VG dust jacket with light light general wear to edges. Now preserved in mylar wrap.

File under: Ray Petri Mitzi Lorenz Jamie Morgan Marc Lebon PowerHouse / New York Fashion Photography Out-of-print / Rare

Chikashi Tanaka
Meherlation

1985, Japanese / English
Softcover (w. obi-strip), 210 pages, 28.5 x 23 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Cultural Publishing / Japan

$160.00 - In stock -

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First edition of this truly amazing, rare and unsung Japanese photo-book by Chikashi Tanaka, Japanese hair designer to the stars, published in one edition in 1985. A gorgeous 10 year collection of monochrome photos taken by Tanaka throughout the 1970s and early 1980s of celebrities who were active in the period. "Although photography is clearly stated as a side interest, the photos taken by Tanaka, who was always close to the glamorous as a hair designer, intimately captures the real faces of the stars, which cannot be taken by a professional cameraman." Beautifully and candidly capturing the cool atmosphere of the period and the stars that illuminated it, back-stage, at the hotel, in the nightclub, in between, Tanaka intimately documents friends, the stars of the Japanese (and American, and European) screen and stage, leading actresses, singers, fashion models, fashion designers, actors, and others, including Kaori Momoi, Karen Graham, Brooke Shields, Masako Natsume, Ayumi Ishida, Inès de La Fressange, Ken Takakura, Juliette Gréco, Helmut Berger, Kiwako Taichi, Catherine Deneuve, Akiko Wada, Jerry Hall, Mitsuhiro Matsuda, Moira Swan, Janice Dickinson, Seiko Matsuda, Princess Diana, Kimiko Kasai, Georges Moustaki, Mizue Takada, Hiromi Go, Ayako Wakao, Mikijirō Hira, Kaori Momoi, Yūsuke Suga, Hiromi Satō, Rumiko Koyanagi, Mao Daich, Mari Yoshimura, Keiko Matsuzaka, Jun Inoue, Beverly Johnson, Kimiko Ikegami, Nana Kinomi, Yoshiko Mita, and so many others. Really a beautiful collection to behold, with wonderful design and printing on warm, uncoated stock with a feel much like the early Comme des Garçons books.

Very Good copy with publisher's obi strip. Some light wear to covers and heavier wear, closed tears to uncommon obi.

File under: Chikashi Tanaka Cultural Publishing / Japan Japanese Photography Photography Fashion Out-of-print / Rare

Luna Nagai + Kishin Shinoyama
Accidents 5 "Amazing Girl"

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

$100.00 - In stock -

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First edition of the fifth 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 5 "Amazing Girl" presenting a shoot with Japanese actress and writer Luna Nagai (also known as Runa Nagai). 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 + obi.

File under: Kishin Shinoyama Runa Nagai (Luna Nagai) Asahi Press / Japan Eros Out-of-print / Rare Japanese Photography Photography

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

$60.00 - 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

$60.00 - 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

Takashi Homma
"Beware of Dog" sticker

199?, Japanese / English
Vinyl sticker, 15 x 10.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by ? / Japan

$150.00 - In stock -

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Very rare, ridiculously adorable Takashi Homma "Beware of Dog" sticker. Likely issued around 1996, the same time as his classic Tokyo Teens postcard book, and roughly the same size, designed with Gugi Akiyama. A perfect collector's item by one of Japan's leading photographers, perfectly emblematic of Homma's influential "Tokyo pop" work of the period. Known in the West through Purple magazine, etc., Homma followed in the spirit of Provoke photographers such as Araki, Moriyama, and Nakahira to create a new photographic expression for Tokyo at the end of the century. Homma's photography would become a great influence on the fashionable 1990's girly photo boom of Hiromix and Yurie Nagashima, etc.

As New, unused.

File under: Takashi Homma ? / Japan Japanese Photography Photography Objects / Ephemera / A/V Out-of-print / Rare

Takashi Homma
"Beware of Dog" sticker

199?, Japanese / English
Vinyl sticker, 15 x 10.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by ? / Japan

$150.00 - In stock -

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Very rare, ridiculously adorable Takashi Homma "Beware of Dog" sticker. Likely issued around 1996, the same time as his classic Tokyo Teens postcard book, and roughly the same size, designed with Gugi Akiyama. A perfect collector's item by one of Japan's leading photographers, perfectly emblematic of Homma's influential "Tokyo pop" work of the period. Known in the West through Purple magazine, etc., Homma followed in the spirit of Provoke photographers such as Araki, Moriyama, and Nakahira to create a new photographic expression for Tokyo at the end of the century. Homma's photography would become a great influence on the fashionable 1990's girly photo boom of Hiromix and Yurie Nagashima, etc.

As New, unused.

File under: Takashi Homma ? / Japan Objects / Ephemera / A/V Japanese Photography Photography

Takashi Homma
Tokyo Teens

1996, Japanese
Softcover, 30 bound postcards, 15.5 x 11.7 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by Little More / Tokyo

$480.00 - In stock -

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Very rare early book of portraits of Tokyo teenagers by leading Japanese photographer Takashi Homma (b. 1962 in Tokyo, Japan). This special publication features around 30 selected photographs of Homma's iconic and very influential early 1990's photography bound into one volume in the form of thick perforated postcards. These images of Tokyo teens, along with images of their bedrooms and Shibuya / Harajuku street surrounds, are emblematic of Homma's work of the period, known in the West through Purple magazine, etc. Following in the spirit of Provoke photographers such as Araki, Moriyama, and Nakahira, Homma created a new photographic expression for Tokyo at the end of the century. Homma's photography would become a great influence on the fashionable 1990's girly photo boom of Hiromix and Yurie Nagashima, etc.

Fine—As New copy, all postcards still bound, vinyl cover sticker still attached as issued.

File under: Takashi Homma Little More / Tokyo Japanese Photography Photography Out-of-print / Rare Fashion Counterculture

Takashi Homma
Babyland

1995, Japanese
Softcover, 80 pages, 25 x 23 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Little More / Tokyo

$120.00 - Out of stock

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Scarce first book by leading Japanese photographer Takashi Homma (b. 1962 in Tokyo, Japan). Babyland, published in 1995, was released in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name at Parco Gallery, Tokyo, launching the career of one of Japan's most influential and acclaimed photographers. The book collects Homma's photographs taken between 1993 and 1995, including his Tokyo Teens series and portraits of Kim Gordon, Mike Kelley and Nan Goldin, amongst others. A beautiful book of Homma's distinctively subdued, atmospheric photography that created a new photographic expression for Tokyo at the end of the century.

Very Good—Near Fine copy, complete with booklet insert and publisher's inlaid promotional materials. Text is a dialogue between Kyoko Okagaki and Homma

File under: Takashi Homma Mike Kelley Nan Goldin Kim Gordon Little More / Tokyo Japanese Photography Photography Out-of-print / Rare Art

Eric Kroll
Fetish Girls

1994, English / German
Softcover, 200 pages, 30 x 24 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Taschen / Cologne

$65.00 - Out of stock

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First 1994 English edition of the classic "Fetish Girls" by American fetish photographer, erotica historian, photojournalist, and book editor, Eric Kroll (b. 1946, New York). Fetish Girls is an incredible collection of Kroll's 1980s-1990's erotic photographs, ranking among the absolute classics of fetishistic imagery. Rising from the downtown New York art and fashion scene of the 1970s and 80s, shooting for Elle Magazine, Vogue, The New York Times and Der Spiegel, Kroll published his first book, "Sex Objects" in 1976 with a grant from the New York State Council of the Arts, a book documenting sex workers across America. His best-seller "Fetish Girls" (1994), was an instant classic, full of powerful women and drawing one into a world of bizarre fantasies and sadomasochistic desires while retaining a sense of irony and surreal humour. Many of Kroll's photographs refer to and pay homage to his predecessors Weegee and Bunny Yeager as well as Eric Stanton and John Willie, while being grounded in the conceptual influences of artists such as Man Ray, and Marcel Duchamp. Text in English, German and French. Wonderful introduction by Kroll.

"My therapist says that I take photographs that make people blush because I suffer from 'middle-child' syndrome. She says I want to draw attention to myself because when I was a child I was ignored. She says I want to be heard, so I scream with my photographs. I was concerned she might cure me, so I stopped going to therapy."—Eric Kroll

Good copy, light wear and heavy foxing (spotting) to inside covers and initial blanks. This is the first print of the original full-size book, not to be mistaken for the mini-version or the postcard book.

File under: Eric Kroll Taschen / Cologne Eros Fetishism / BDSM Out-of-print / Rare Photography

Kiyotaka Tsurisaki
The Dead

2018, English / Japanese
Softcover (w. dust jacket in hard slipcase), unpaginated, 31 x 21.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Tokyo Kirarasha / Tokyo

$500.00 - In stock -

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Rare first 2018 slipcased edition of Japanese corpse photographer Tsurisaki Kiyotaka's THE DEAD.

Since 1994, Japanese photographer, film director, and writer Kiyotaka Tsurisaki has become known for prolifically photographing dead bodies. Countless shocking and gruesome images of the dead fill the pages of this book, which is certainly not for the faint of heart. Many of these people met with violent ends, whether by vehicle crash, homicide, or suicide. Tsurisaki also brings the viewer into morgues and forensics labs, where the macabre work of embalming and autopsy is unapologetically documented. He has travelled to Thailand, Colombia, Mexico, Russia, and Palestine, as well as other lawless or war-torn parts of the world, to photograph human corpses.

Texts in English and Japanese.

Explicit material!

Near Fine–Fine copy in Very Good slipcase with light wear, one corner knock to back that does no effect the book at all. Very well preserved.

File under: Kiyotaka Tsurisaki Tokyo Kirarasha / Tokyo Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Japanese Photography Photography Crime / Violence Out-of-print / Rare Counterculture

Scene of Death
Corpse Photo Collection

1984, Japanese / English
Slipcase, corrugated envelope, 64 looseleaf plates, 29.7 x 21 cm
Stamped and numbered,
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by B-Sellers / Japan

$350.00 - In stock -

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Very rare first stunning printing of Scene of Death, a rare 1984 death photo collection, published by B-Sellers in Japan only, compiled by Noriaki Nakagawa, Hitomi Komukai, and Yoichi Shihata. An elaborate and beautiful print production of the macabre. Housed in an illustrated slipcase within a stamped, button-and-tie-bound corrugated envelope, 64 looseleaf monochrome photographic plates reproduce images from "Atlas der Gerichtsmedizin", an absolutely fascinating collection by Weiman / Prokop, first published in 1963. Atlas der Gerichtsmedizin was originally a serious German scientific reference book for criminal investigators and those in the medical field — a photo scrapbook of thousands of images of graphic human death scenes — suffocation and strangulation, drowning and death by water, death by burning and electrocution, crimes of passion, abuse and neglect, and more. In turn, this visual opus became a bible of reference imagery to a wave of musicians, artists and authors during the industrial avant-garde, from Throbbing Gristle to Paul Buck to Atrax Morgue. This meticulous and unique Japanese offering further influenced many Japanese artists in the 1980s—1990's. Later re-printed in 1994.

Stamped and numbed first printing.

"We believe the scenes of death is, in one sense, the most erotic of human nature. It is at the time of death that man no longer can attempt to control his inner self and therefore the real self appears vividly. Here we have opened the doors to a topic that is usually not only hidden but also shut out of the minds of man. Please share our excitement and take a glance into the world of hidden eroticism"—Scene of Death blurb.

VG—NF copy in VG—NF slipcase, all plates still wrapped in seldom preserved internal obi strip. Some wear/rusting to envelope buttons.

File under: B-Sellers / Japan Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Crime / Violence Photography Out-of-print / Rare

Happy Victims
by Kyoichi Tsuzuki

2025, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket and obi), 184 pages, 30 x 23 cm
Published by Apartamento / Barcelona

$140.00 - In stock -

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Between 1999 and 2006, before fast fashion and social media changed the world forever, Kyoichi Tsuzuki published 87 instalments of his Happy Victims series in the fashion magazine Ryuko Tsushin. In cramped quarters across Tokyo, these anonymous disciples joyously detailed the ritual and the sacrifice of their brand-name obsessions. A Buddhist monk with a Comme des Garçons shopping habit, an Alexander McQueen collector listening to neighbours through paper-thin walls—photographed at home, their collections before them, Kyoichi’s anti-heroes exist in parallel to the fashion universe of fame, fantasy, and glamour. Happy Victims was first published in book form in 2008. Long out of print, this edition follows Apartamento’s reissue of Kyoichi’s earlier seminal work, Tokyo Style. The new hardcover design comes with an updated foreword by the author, Japanese photographer Kyoichi Tsuzuki, and an introduction by Isabella Burley of Climax Books.

While the cover and belly band have been completely reworked, in collaboration with designer Han Gao, the book’s interior maintains a simple, documental format: one happy victim per spread, Kyoichi’s photos supplemented by a short commentary on the individual and his or her daily schedule. Not typically members of the leisure class, the goths, Lolitas, and stringent Margiela fans must also go to work and find time to care for their clothes.

About Kyoichi Tsuzuki
A Tokyo native, Kyoichi Tsuzuki is an award-winning photographer and a former editor at such iconic publications as Popeye and Brutus. He received the 1996 Ihei Kimura Award for his first photography exhibition, Roadside Japan, and has since shown work at the White Cube Gallery, London, MUDAM Luxembourg, Galerie Da-End, and more. Kyoichi is also the author of Tokyo Style, a cult classic reissued by Apartamento in 2024.

About Isabella Burley
Isabella Burley founded Climax Books in London in 2020 as a home for rare editions, adding a New York outpost in 2024. At 17, she started on the shop floor of Dover Street Market with Comme des Garçons, then later served as editor-in-chief for Dazed & Confused from 2015 to 2021. Additional appointments include Helmut Lang and Acne Studios.

File under: Kyoichi Tsuzuki Comme des Garçons Comme Des Garçons Alexander McQueen Maison Martin Margiela Martin Margiela Yohji Yamamoto Helmut Lang Apartamento / Barcelona Fashion Japanese Photography Photography Counterculture

Post Human
by Jeffrey Deitch

1992, English
Softcover (french-folds), 144 pages, 28 x 22 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by FAE Musee d'Art Contemporaine Pully / Lausanne

$160.00 - In stock -

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First 1992 English edition of the legendary Post Human exhibition catalogue, published on the occasion of the touring exhibition curated by Jeffrey Deitch, June 1992—October 1993. Post Human brought together the work of leading young international artists confronting a new artificial “real” world; a new figuration. The participating artists examine the media’s obsession with the “virtual reality” of the body beautiful through works that reveal the neuroses that plague contemporary society. In Deitch's words, this lavishly designed catalogue "explores the implications of genetic engineering, plastic surgery, mind expansion, and other forms of body alteration, to ask whether our society is developing a new model of the human being. It poses the question of whether our society is creating a new kind of post-human person that replaces previous constructions of the self. Images from the new technological and consumer culture and the new, conceptually oriented figurative art of thirty-six young artists will endeavor to give us a glimpse of the coming post-human world."

Featuring the work of Dennis Adams, Janine Antoni, John M Armleder, Stephan Balkenhol, Matthew Barney, Ashley Bickerton, Taro Chiezo, Clegg & Guttmann, Wim Delvoye, Suzan Etkin, Fischli / Weiss, Slyvie Fleury, Robert Gober, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Damien Hirst, Martin Honert, Mike Kelley, Karen Kilimnik, Martin Kippenberger, Jeff Koons, George Lappas, Annette Lemieux, Christian Marclay, Paul McCarthy, Yasumasa Morimura, Kodai Nakahara, Cady Noland, Daniel Oates, Pruitt & Early, Charles Ray, Thomas Ruff, Cindy Sherman, Kiki Smith, Pia Stadtbäumer, Meyer Vaisman, Jeff Wall.

"Post Human was virtually a manifesto trumpeting a new art for a new breed of human. As Deitch’s text explained in the fragmented mottos that punctuated the billboard-style graphics of Dan Friedman’s catalogue design, “It is becoming routine for people to try to alter their appearance, their behavior, and their consciousness beyond what was once thought possible.” And we go on to read, “With the embrace of artificiality, Realism as we used to know it may no longer be possible.” The glossy color plates spoke volumes, whether the illustrations came from art or from “life.” The catalogue was to become something of a cult item that triggered the imaginations of many younger artists. Here was a permanent anthology of the “posthumanity” that surrounds us not only in galleries but on television, in magazines, even in real life, where the friendly androids among us chatter on about Botox and face-lifts. In the catalogue pages, one could see, for instance, four photos of Jane Fonda in four completely different but equally synthetic guises; Pat Buchanan being made up by a cosmetician for a TV appearance; computer morphs of once- human faces; before-and-after bellies and buttocks; and dead center, a profile view of Michael Jackson, clearly the sun god of this new solar system, who would later be deified by Jeff Koons.

This pure plastic environment, whether peopled by Ivana Trump or Barbie, set the stage for the artists in the show, whose works played perfectly in this parallel universe that was quickly replacing that old-fashioned thing called Nature. The result was a complete reshuffling of the contemporary-art deck, with an international mix of thirty-six artists (singles and pairs) that embraced Thomas Ruff and Jeff Wall, Clegg & Gutmann and Pruitt/Early, Damien Hirst and Cindy Sherman, Matthew Barney and Yasumasa Morimura, Charles Ray and Martin Kippenberger. A new dynasty had installed itself, and this ruling class demanded fitting ancestry."—Robert Rosenblum, Artforum (October 2004)

"Looked at from the point of view of being difficult cultural issues to a broader public than usual, the project Post Human could not have come about at a better time. (…) Deitch’s central thesis—that the voluntary manipulation of the human body through surgery, cosmetics and exercise, combined with recent technologies allowing us to simulate the experience of reality, have produced a culture in which the body no longer serves as a cohesive, organic reference point—fits well in an age in which pop starts, politicians and even artists themselves seem to delight in changing their physical identities to suit their purposes. No longer the domain of privacy and difference, the body has become a public crossroads where the merging of real and artificial, organic and synthetic, and even good and evil, is taking place right before our very (ahem) eyes."—Dan Cameron, Frieze (September–October 1992)

Very Good copy.

File under: Dennis Adams Janine Antoni John M Armleder Stephan Balkenhol Matthew Barney Ashley Bickerton Taro Chiezo Clegg & Guttmann Wim Delvoye Suzan Etkin Fischli / Weiss Slyvie Fleury Robert Gober Felix Gonzalez-Torres Damien Hirst Martin Honert Mike Kelley Karen Kilimnik Martin Kippenberger Jeff Koons George Lappas Annette Lemieux Christian Marclay Paul McCarthy Yasumasa Morimura Kodai Nakahara Cady Noland Daniel Oates Pruitt & Early Charles Ray Thomas Ruff Cindy Sherman Kiki Smith Pia Stadtbäumer Meyer Vaisman Jeff Wall Fischli & Weiss David Weiss Peter Fischli Peter Fischli & David Weiss Peter Fischli/David Weiss Jeffrey Deitch FAE Musee d'Art Contemporaine Pully / Lausanne Group Shows / Collections Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Sculpture / Installation Photography Conceptual Art Out-of-print / Rare

TOKYO 1970 BY JAPANESE PHOTOGRAPHERS 9
Taiji Arita, Eikoh Hosie, Daido Moriyama, Masatoshi Naito, Hajime Sawatari, Issei Suda, Yoshihiro Tatsuki, Shuji Terayama, Katsumi Watanabe

2013, Japanese
Softcover, 212 pages, 28.2 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Amana / Japan

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First edition of this wonderful collection of Japanese photographers that captured 1970s Tokyo, now out-of-print. In the world of fine art photography, post-war Japanese photography is continuing to gather attention. Many Japanese photographers were active specifically during the large cultural and political development of the 70s as the country experienced rapid economic growth. At the time, new styles of expression with a strong focus on the individual viewpoint were beginning to develop, which were distinct to the social documentary photography prior to that. This also coincided with the development of photography within the fashion and advertising field, reflecting a period where the works of many unique photographers and styles began to grow. A careful selection of 160 bodies of works by 9 prominent photographers of the time, each individually portraying the excitement and rapid growth which symbolised the era. Taiji Arita, Eikoh Hosie, Daido Moriyama, Masatoshi Naito, Hajime Sawatari, Issei Suda, Yoshihiro Tatsuki, Shuji Terayama, Katsumi Watanabe.

Very Good copy with good dust jacket.

File under: Taiji Arita Eikoh Hosie Daido Moriyama Masatoshi Naito Hajime Sawatari Issei Suda Yoshihiro Tatsuki Shuji Terayama Katsumi Watanabe Amana / Japan Japanese Photography Photography Out-of-print / Rare Counterculture Art Sociology / Politics Protest / Revolt Performance / Dance / Theater

Nobuyoshi Araki
Shiki In

2005, English / Japanese
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), unpaginated, 37 x 23.5 cm
Ed. of 1000,
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by AaT Room / Tokyo

$200.00 - In stock -

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First edition, first printing of Nobuyoshi Araki's "Shiki In", published in an edition of 1000 copies in 2005 in this lavish hardcover edition, marking the beginning of publications by Araki which featured his erotic painted photo works. Confronting issues of censorship within Japanese society and faced with prosecution due to the graphic nature of his imagery, Araki, although always having confronted the comfort zones of his viewers, began to blot out and scrape over the genitals in his photographic images substituting the exposed area with expressive hand-scribbled lines of black, using more and more frequently bright and vibrant colours. This application of colours within Shiki In (published in 2005) brilliantly captures this now established part of his repertoire. Included within the pages are 128 images; portraits of his models bound in Kinbaku, vibrantly transformed with the painted brush strokes of Araki's hand. This self censorship of his works added a transformative element to his photographs, presenting them as a visual response on both the laws of censorship, as well as referencing the sexual imagery based on Japanese traditions alongside Araki's own visual motifs of color, used to portray all that is living and the use of monochrome to connote notions of death.

"I wanted to molest women who had become monochrome, it made me want to paint color on prints".

Afterword by Toshiharu Ito.

Near Fine copy in NF dust jacket.

File under: Nobuyoshi Araki Toshiharu Ito AaT Room / Tokyo Japanese Photography Photography Out-of-print / Rare Eros Fetishism / BDSM Painting Art

Robert Chouraqui
Tendres Esclaves

1990, French
Softcover, 64 pages, 30 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Club du Livre Secret / Paris

$55.00 - Out of stock

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1990 erotic photo book, Tendres Esclaves, a beautiful collection of black and white belles photographies sado-masochistes by Robert Chouraqui, a self-made French photographer who came to photography in the mid-70s psychedelic period and became a master of gothic eroticism that regularly graced the pages of magazines such as Marquis, Discipline, Pink Star, and Cliché International during the 1990s boom of the SM subculture. This collection of his early female fetish photography, published by the legendary Club du Livre Secret, Paris, is introduced by fellow erotic publisher Pauline Barnet. For fans of Irina Ionesco or Eric Kroll.

Very Good copy with a couple of small sticker losses to covers, light age.

File under: Robert Chouraqui Club du Livre Secret / Paris Fetishism / BDSM Eros Photography Out-of-print / Rare

Irina Ionesco
Nudes

1996, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 144 pages, 32.5 x 24.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Edition Stemmle / Zürich

$100.00 - Out of stock

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First 1996 hardcover edition of this long out-of-print, collectible photo book of French photographer Irina Ionesco (1930-2022). "Nudes" is a luxurious collection spanning over twenty-five years of Irina Ionesco's black and white, dream-like and excessive, erotic photographs, including several of a young daughter Eva. Text in English, with an exhibition history and bibliography.

"Irina Ionesco's nudes inhabit a world of suffering, passion, longing, and desire. Her models, are seductively exoticized in fairy tale clothing and leather, but clad with razor sharp fingernails they are unmistakably quite deadly."—publisher's blurb

Irina Ionesco (1930-2022) was a French photographer celebrated for her unique style of dramatically lit, baroque, erotic female portraits, influenced by the Decadent movement, the poetry of Baudelaire, and the dream-like psycho-erotic imagery of Surrealism. Raised in Romania by her circus performing family, Ionesco herself spent the ages of 15 to 22 performing as a contortionist. She traveled and painted for several years before discovering photography and gained wide attention when she exhibited her work at the Nikon Gallery in Paris in 1974, leading to her work being published in magazines, books, and exhibited at galleries across the globe. Ionesco stirred controversy with her renowned nude portraits. Her work often features women in elaborate dress, bejewelled, gloved, and in other finery, but also adorning themselves with symbolic pieces such as chokers, clawed nails and other fetishistic props, posing provocatively like black widows — objects of deadly sexual desire. Ionesco is most famous for her photographs using her young daughter, Eva, as her model and muse, a decision that remains controversial to this day.

Very Good copy in VG dust jacket with some light jacket wear/light foxing to reverse. Preserved in mylar wrap.

File under: Irina Ionesco Edition Stemmle / Zürich Eros Photography Out-of-print / Rare Art

Irina Ionesco
The Eros of Baroque

1988, Japanese
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 132 pages, 30.5 x 27 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Treville / Tokyo

$120.00 - In stock -

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First 1988 hardcover edition of this long out-of-print, collectible photo book of French photographer Irina Ionesco (1930-2022) published only in Japan. "The Eros of Baroque" is a luxurious, elaborately designed photo collection of Ionesco's black and white and colour, dream-like and excessive erotic photographs, including several of a young daughter Eva. A profusely illustrated book spanning multiple paper stocks and including a sealed-in smaller text book section on blue paper with many further photographic images in the text, divided into 10 "scenes."

Irina Ionesco (1930-2022) was a French photographer celebrated for her unique style of dramatically lit, baroque, erotic female portraits, influenced by the Decadent movement, the poetry of Baudelaire, and the dream-like psycho-erotic imagery of Surrealism. Raised in Romania by her circus performing family, Ionesco herself spent the ages of 15 to 22 performing as a contortionist. She traveled and painted for several years before discovering photography and gained wide attention when she exhibited her work at the Nikon Gallery in Paris in 1974, leading to her work being published in magazines, books, and exhibited at galleries across the globe. Ionesco stirred controversy with her renowned nude portraits. Her work often features women in elaborate dress, bejewelled, gloved, and in other finery, but also adorning themselves with symbolic pieces such as chokers, clawed nails and other fetishistic props, posing provocatively like black widows — objects of deadly sexual desire. Ionesco is most famous for her photographs using her young daughter, Eva, as her model and muse, a decision that remains controversial to this day.

Very Good copy in VG dust jacket with some light jacket wear/light foxing to reverse. Preserved in mylar wrap.

File under: Irina Ionesco Treville / Tokyo Eros Photography Art Out-of-print / Rare

Hayley Millar Baker
There we were all in one place

2021, English
Softcover (w. dust jacket), 80 pages, 23 x 17 cm 
Published by UTS Gallery / Sydney

$25.00 - In stock -

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Bringing together five photographic series produced by Hayley Millar Baker between 2016 and 2019, There we were all in one place traces Baker’s use of historical citation, digital editing and archival research to consider experiences of time, memory and place.

Working primarily in black and white, Baker’s layered photographic assemblages affirm Aboriginal experience and culture within the Australian imaginary, forming complex narratives of place, family, identity and survival. Grounded in her Gunditjmara and cross-cultural heritage, her practice is guided by a non-linear understanding of time in which past, present and future remain interconnected.

With essays by Stella Rosa McDonald, Hetti Perkins and Talia Smith, and a commissioned poem in language by Vicki Couzens, the publication extends the exhibition’s exploration of photography and storytelling as acts of re-authoring history and asserting the authority of lived experience across generations. Also included is a Learning Experience developed by Emily McDaniel in consultation with the artist, designed to support tertiary engagement with the work through reflection on personal memory and connection.

Design by Daryl Prondoso
Authors: Vicki Couzens; Hayley Millar Baker; Emily McDaniel; Stella Rosa McDonald; Hetti Perkins; Talia Smith

File under: Daryl Prondoso Hayley Millar Baker Vicki Couzens Hayley Millar Baker Emily McDaniel Stella Rosa McDonald Hetti Perkins Talia Smith UTS Gallery / Sydney Australian Art Art Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Australian Photography Photography

Penny Slinger
50% The Visible Woman

2021, English
Hardcover, 320 pages, 23 x 16 cm
Published by Blum & Poe / Los Angeles

$95.00 - In stock -

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Released on the 50th anniversary of the publication of Penny Slinger's iconic artists’ book 50% The Visible Woman, this 2021 edition presents Slinger’s series of surrealist photomontage works and poetry unabridged for the first time, following the hand-constructed snakeskin-bound book from 1969, and the out-of-print abridged edition from 1971. With a new conversation transcribed between Slinger and fellow artist and friend Linder.

File under: Penny Slinger Blum & Poe / Los Angeles Surrealism Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Photography Feminism Eros Occult / Esoterica Art