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During the 1960s and '70s in Japan, the photobook--through a combination of excellence in design, printing, and materials--overtook prints as a popular mode of artistic dissemination. This process has expanded to an extent where any discussion of Japanese photography now has to include the book work. Today, the most famous works--such as Nobuyoshi Araki's Sentimental Journey and Eikoh Hosoe's Man and Woman--continue to inspire artists internationally. Japanese Photobooks of the 1960s and '70s presents forty definitive publications from the era, piecing together an otherwise invisible history that has played out in tandem with photography as a medium. Included are some of the most influential works along with forgotten gems, placed within a larger historical and sociological context. Each book, beautifully reproduced through numerous spreads, is accompanied by an in-depth explanatory text and sidebars highlighting important editors, designers, themes, and periodicals. Lavishly produced, this unique publication is an ode to the distinct character and influence of the Japanese photobook.

Ivan Vartanian and Ryuichi Kaneko's Japanese photobooks of the 1960s and '70s belongs to a new breed of photobook: the book on books. Martin Parr and Gerry Badger's two-volume history of the photobook is probably the best known of these, but there are other interesting examples. Jeff Ladd's Errata Editions is taking this one step further with the 'Books on Books' series which each focus on a single photobook in order to make rare and out-of-print books accessible to us mere mortals.

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Volume I of Parr & Badger already contained a chapter on the post-war Japanese photobook with a selection of some of the major books to come out of Japan in the 60s and 70s. Japanese photobooks expands on this territory over 240 pages providing a much broader selection of photobooks, including some relatively unknown ones. Some may be surprised to see a 240-page book with such a narrow focus as this, but this period of photobook production in Japan was so rich that this could have been expanded to twelve volumes and still left a lot of room for discovery.

Much of the interest in Japanese photobooks has been focused on the magazine Provoke and publications relating to it. This is the case with Parr & Badger's selection and essay which focuses heavily on Provoke. The refreshing thing about Japanese photobooks is that it doesn't just present the best-known and respected books of the period and instead includes a selection ranging from the unavoidable Chizu (The Map) by Kikuji Kawada to a collection of anonymous student photography.

The book contains essays by Kaneko and Vartanian. Kaneko's essay recounts his personal journey with the photobook, a unique one since few people were buying photobooks when he did (to the point where he once ordered a book only to have the publisher turn up at his door to deliver it himself because he thought it would be cheaper than sending it in the mail). Vartanian focuses on drawing out the major characteristics and functions of photobooks and their production. I think this is one of the key strengths of Japanese photobooks and one which I would have liked to see developed even further. This kind of editorial exercise often ends up becoming focused on ranking or selecting the best books, in keeping with our ever-increasing love for the list (something I have somewhat hypocritically complained about before). This book successfully avoids the pitfalls of writing a 'best of' list, choosing instead to present a rounded picture of the many facets of Japanese photobook production of this period and to show how they relate to each other in order to provide the reader with a context for understanding what defines these books and what makes them great.

Japanese photobooks admittedly has an unfair advantage over its competition: it is drawn from the collection of Ryuichi Kaneko, which includes some 20,000 publications making Martin Parr's Japanese photobook collection look like a first-grade stamp collector's in comparison. This headstart isn't wasted and Japanese photobooks certainly uncovers its fair share of undiscovered gems. The forty or so books are presented with an extended essay and a healthy number of 'interior' shots (there is a nice preview of the book available on Vartanian's website) which successfully give a feel for each book's individual characteristics. For the geeks (and amongst photobook collectors that percentage is alarmingly high) there is also a wealth of technical information on the production process for each book (photobook porn if you will): who designed it, how it was printed and who by, where it was bound and, as a bonus, the original retail price just to make you wince when you find out how much these are worth today.

Japanese Photobooks of the 1960s and '70s presents forty definitive publications from the era, piecing together an otherwise invisible history. Included are some of the most influential works along with forgotten gems, placed within a larger sociological context. Each book, beautifully reproduced through numerous spreads, is accompanied by in-depth explanatory text highlighting important editors, designers, and themes. Lavishly produced, this unique publication is an ode to the distinct character and influence of the Japanese photobook.

Tokyo-based art director and designer Steve Nakamura has teamed up with German photographer and filmmaker Norbert Schoerner to create 'Nearly Eternal', a sensual food photobook to be released in 2016 and featured in Time Out Tokyo's winter magazine issue. We met up with the pair and asked them to tell us more about the project...

Book Description: Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Takanashi, Yutaka (photographer) ; Tamada Kenichiro (producer) ; Okamoto Issen (art director) ; Matsushita Kouichi (designer) (illustrator). 1st Edition. A photobook including 40 black and white photographs of locations in and around Tokyo, especially architecture. Very small stains to cover edges. Colophon is the first edition but also includes the 1992 edition dust jacket. Also with original contents leaflet. In extremely nice condition. Text in Japanese. Used book. Seller Inventory # 0123

Book Description: Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Baltz, Lewis (illustrator). 1st Edition. A first edition of this photobook of Candlestick Point, in California, USA, on San Francisco Bay, by famous photographer and visual artist Lewis Baltz (1945-2014). The book comprises 84 black and white and colour photographic plates of a bleak public space near Candlestick Park. Made in Japan. In original slipcase, which has some wear and marks/dents to extremities. Original black boards have some light finger marks. Slight waving to pages. Minor foxing to endpapers, flyleaves, and very occasionally to margins. Otherwise contents in nice condition. Includes many folding plates. Comes in original cardboard slipcase. Text in English. Unpaginated. Due to size and weight of the item, extra shipping charges may be applied. Used book. Seller Inventory # 452

Book Description: Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Kawada, Kikuji (illustrator). 1st Edition. Original red cloth cover, a few minor scratches to upper board. Very occasional small marks to contents, otherwise fine. Comes with original slipcase, a few small marks mostly to foot. First edition of this monochrome photobook of grotesque and fantastical scenes from Italy`s Bomarzo, Hong Kong`s Tiger Balm Garden, Germany`s Neuschwanstein Castle, and so on, by Kawada Kikuji (1933-). Kawada was one of the co-founders of the Vivo photographic collective along with Akira Sato, Eikoh Hosoe, Ikko Narahara, Akira Tanno and Shomei Tomatsu. One of a limited edition of 1000 copies. Text in Japanese. Due to the size and weight of this book, extra shipping fees may apply. 248 p. Used book. Seller Inventory # 503 e24fc04721