Hosoe Kamaitachi

Hosoe, Eikoh. EIKOH HOSOE: PHOTOGRAPHS 1950-2000. Tokyo, Japan: Kyodo News, 2000.
Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 300 pages. Fine. Retrospective exhibition monograph. The single best introduction to the work of Eikoh Hosoe. Published in a very small and limited print run as a hardcover original only. There is no ISBN. A brilliant production by Yoshinobu Kuwahata: Regular-sized volume format. Glossy pictorial hard boards with metallic-silver titles embossed on the cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Eikoh Hosoe. Essays by various scholars in the Japanese original and felicitous English translations. Printed on thick coated stock paper in Tokyo, Japan to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Published on the occasion of the landmark retrospective exhibition held at the Yamagata Museum of Art Tokyo from July 20 through August 20, 2000. The show travelled on to seven other venues throughout Japan between 2000 and 2003. Presents the most comprehensive and most rewarding overview of Eikoh Hosoe's oeuvre in one sumptuous volume: "Man And Woman", "Ba Ra Kei" ("Ordeal By Roses"), "Kamaitachi", "Hoyo" ("Embrace"), "The Cosmos of Gaudi", "Luna Rossa" ("Red Moon"), and the little-known "People Concerned With Work". As the monograph explains in detail, Hosoe's aesthetics are more "Western" than most other Japanese photographers, that is to say, he goes both ways: His work is influenced by the West (which he reveres, especially Europe) yet at the same time, it remains profoundly and essentially Japanese, even his great book on the Spanish architect Gaudi. He is widely (and rightly) seen as the Romantic counter-figure to the coolly Modernist Daido Moriyama, the photographer-as-artist par excellence. If the latter's quest is for the fugitive fragment, Hosoe's is for the flamboyant and dramatic gesture. Both men (along with other cult figures) made Japanese photography not just world-class but in a class of its own, the most advanced camera culture in the world today. A "must-have" title for Eikoh Hosoe collectors. <b><i> This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed (in Japanese characters) in metallic-silver marker on the front free endpaper by Eikoh Hosoe. The signature matches the book's titles and glows radiantly against the light. This is an Import title, was not commercially sold outside Japan, and has been out-of-print for a long time. This is the only copy available online and is in fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. A rare signed copy thus. </b></i> 200 plates. "Ba Ra Kei" and "Kamaitachi" were selected as two of the greatest photography books in "The Photobook". One of the greatest artist/photograph ers of the 20th century. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER EIKOH HOSOE TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). Signed by Author.

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