"Tokyo Vertigo is the first book to catch all of the sensations of Tokyo: its vast avenues and building masses, and its concurrent cultures of sex, death and ecstasy.??The book explores Tokyo as a vast compendium of visual gestures, images and texts. Moving from district to district-from wild Shinjuku to the austere Imperial Palace-it vividly tracks the exhilarating impact of the city as seen on the faces of its innumerable human denizen ..."
"The short-lived Japanese magazine Provoke, founded in 1968, 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 overall. The magazine'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 ..."
"Gathered together on these pages is a collection of exceptional photographs of women which includes 120 prize-winning photographs taken from the Annual Kaiga no Hana Photographer's Club contest and works of 50 professionals from around the ..."
"Timeless, limitless 14 x 20 inch images of one of the world's most mystical places, accompanied by the poetry of Helen Ibbitson Jessup. Like the makers of the sacred image of Buddha, who utter three prayers for each stroke of the carving tool, Kenro Izu considers the act of picturemaking a type of divine practice, capturing essence and light. After making numerous trips to Angkor Wat, Izu, who was deeply moved by his encounters with the ..."
"A group of master photographers--including Richard Avedon, Inge Morath, and Henri Cartier-Bresson, among others--have each chosen images by a photographer whose work they feel deserves wider attention. Included are interviews and commentary explaining why the selected artists have made an impact on these photographers' lives. In turn, the volume presents significant images by the masters themselves, creating a dialogue of influence and ..."
"From 1946 to 1956 Duncan was based in the Middle East, shooting for Life magazine. From those 10 years of assignments, this book was produced. He covers the entire Muslim world: Jerusalem, Spain, Morocco, Algeria, Libya, Egypt, Palestine, Turkey, Afghanistan, Pakistan and more. A spectacular achievement and very well printed. Cloth bound hardback in dust jacket. 280 pages; profusely illustrated with full-page color and b&w gravure-prin ..."
"Book by Wynn Bullock, Jerry Burchard, Linda Connor, Larry Clark, Ralph Gibson, Betty Hahn, Eikoh Hosoe, George Krause, Elaine Mayes"
Deadly Ashes(1stEdition) Pompei Auschwitz Trinity Site Hiroshima द्वारा EikohHosoe, 英公·細江, Mado Sha, Eikō Hosoe Jp Oversized, 118 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2007 द्वारा Mado Sha ISBN-13: 978-4-89625-086-2, ISBN: 4-89625-086-9
"Hosoe photographs the natural disaster of Pompeii and compares it with the sites of catastrophic events of the 20th century like Hiroshima and Auschwitz. 118 pages, black and white, with a red obi (belly band) around the book."
"Yuriko's mother was three months pregnant when she went with a small child on
her back to help serve food for a women's group dismantling buildings in the
center of the city. Her child was killed outright, as were most of the women
workers."
"Ba-ra-kei: Ordeal by Roses is a rare glimpse into the life of the great modern Japanese writer, Yukio Mishima, who ended his life in 1970 by ritual suicide. Many in Japan regarded the suicide as a sensational act. However, the publication of Mishima's final cycle of novels, which had been conceived eight years prior to his death, revealed that his death was carefully considered--a gesture of historical import in perfect accord with the ..."
"An undisputed masterwork among Japanese photobooks, Eikoh Hosoe and Tatsumi Hijikata's "Kamaitachi" was originally released in 1969 as a limited edition of 1,000 copies. Hosoe, the renowned photographer, and Hijikata, the founder of ankoku butoh dance, had visited a farming village in northern Japan, where Hijikata improvised a performance inspired by the legend of a weasel-like demon named Kamaitachi. As Hosoe photographed Hijikata's s ..."
"Booklet published to accompany three exhibitions presented concurrently at Rochester Institute of Technology, Visual Studies Workshop, and International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House. 13 plates of the photographer's work plus English text including preface, commentary and biographical information. Cover title. 1 v. (unpaged) : ill. ; 25 cm."
EikohHosoe(1stEdition) (Aperture Masters of Photography) द्वारा Mark Holborn, EikohHosoe, Eikō Hosoe Hardcover, 96 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 1999 द्वारा Aperture ISBN-13: 978-0-89381-824-1, ISBN: 0-89381-824-0
""To me photography can be simultaneously both a record and a 'mirror' or 'window' of self-expression. The camera is generally assumed to be unable to depict that which is not visible to the eye. And yet the photographer who wields it well can depict what lies unseen in his memory."--Eikoh HosoeEikoh Hosoe is an integral part of the history of the modern Japanese photography. He remains a driving force in photography, not only for his ow ..."