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M/E

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Upon visiting Iceland in 2019, Kawauchi encountered geysers like the breadths of Earth, glaciers surpassing human time, and the inner space of a dormant volcano that was reminiscent of the inside of a womb. She had thus experienced the connection to this planet she had never felt b...

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PROVOKE Complete Reprint of 3 Volumes

Koji TAKI, Takuma NAKAHIRA , Yutaka TAKANASHI, Takahiko OKADA, Daido MORIYAMA

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The Provoke magazine, created and published by art critic Koji Taki, photographer Takuma Nakahira, poet Takahiko Okada, photographer Yutaka Takanashi and (for issues 2 & 3) photographer Daido Moriyama, has had an immeasurable influence on photography world-wide. The individual ...

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Nakahira Takuma: Burn-Overflow

Takuma NAKAHIRA

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This catalog accompanies the Takuma Nakahira exhibition “Burn—Overflow” held at the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, from February 6 – April 7, 2024. The exhibition was the first major retrospective of Takuma Nakahira’s work in close to twenty years. Like the exhibition, the c...

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Shinjuku 1999–2008

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In the early 2000s, Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward underwent several major changes: new, more accessible shopping complexes and entertainment centers were built, and Kabukicho was made less lawless. As a result, the area became friendlier and more attractive to new visitors. But, says ...

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Record No. 59 + Daido Bandana

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This is the 59th issue of Daido Moriyama's long-running photography magazine "Record". Originally launched in 1972, the project was revived in 2006 in collaboration with Akio Nagasawa. Daido Moriyama, now 86 years old, fills the pages of "Record No. 59" wit...

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ASAKUSA

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“Asakusa” by Dutch photographer Ronin de Goede is a photographic diary of the days he spent photographing the work of Japanese master tattoo artist Horikazu and the clients who hire him. As Japan has historically been and continues to be a country where tattoos remain closely assoc...

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High Fashion

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“HIGH FASHION” is a series of work taken by Pawel Jaszczuk between 2008 and 2010 of drunk salarymen sleeping in the streets of Tokyo. Pawel, residing in Japan at the time, would head out on his bicycle after midnight to photograph different people and places, saying that the best h...

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Yoko

Masahisa FUKASE

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Masahisa Fukase's timeless masterpiece "Yoko" is now being newly reprinted. Originally published in 1978, Masahisa Fukase's "Yoko" stands as a defining series in his body of work, yet it had long been out of print. Now, nearly half a century later, thi...

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Farewell Photography

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This 2023 reprint of Daido Moriyama’s “Farewell Photography” brings back one of the master photographer’s most influential and controversial works. This edition is based on the 2019 publication of “Farewell Photography” by Getsuyosha (itself based on the original publication by Sha...

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Overflow

Takuma NAKAHIRA

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Takuma Nakahira, one of the most legendary photographers of post-war Japan and a life-long rival of Daido Moriyama. Overflow is the first photobook in which his installation work comes alive in entirety and detail since its unveiling in 1974. Takuma Nakahira’s series ‘Overflow’ was...

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Neon Tour

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Few things have come to define Japan's nighttime cityscapes as much as glowing neon lights, though their popularity is waning with the proliferation of more energy-efficient LEDs. Osamu Nakamura spent the five years between 2020 and 2024 walking through cities and towns from O...

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Shibuya 1999

Mike NOGAMI, Masami TAKAHASHI

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Gal culture flourished in Shibuya at the end of 20th century. In the late 1990s, young girls filled Shibuya's Centre Gai Street and began creating a unique cultural movement that would eventually spread throughout Japan. People came from all over the country to gather in Shibu...

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Record No. 58

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This is the 58th issue of "Record," an ongoing photographic journal by Daido Moriyama that began in 1972 and was revived in 2006. As a regular outlet for his photography, the "Record" series is perhaps the most current reflection of Moriyama's interests, ob...

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Atelier Ricken Backer

Ren NOMIYAMA, Ayane MAOKA, Chiharu SUGIHARA, Hinata OKAZAKI, Natsuki NAGAGAKI

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Based in Japan’s Kansai region, Atelier Ricken Backer is a collective of young Japanese photographers. Through its self-organized and independent nature, Atelier Ricken Backer is able to highlight the perspectives of Japan's next generation of photographers, whose work may not...

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The Best Days (New Edition)

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“The Best Days” is Yang's earlier work photographed between 1999 to 2006 when he was studying photography in Tokyo. Driven by the suicide death of his comrade, Yang documented his life trajectory and people around him while he traveled back and forth between Japan and Korea. Z...

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No Teacher But I Can Take Photos

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Humorous street photos from Hong Kong While advice such as “tell a story with each image” is common wisdom in the photography world, few photographers possess the ability to deliver little jokes and anecdotes with visual punchlines with their work. One such rare talent is Hong Kong...

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Ravens

Masahisa FUKASE

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“Ravens is one of the defining bodies of work in the history of photography and a high point in the photo book genre. This accumulation of accolades, and the passing of time, have obscured much of the fascinating detail which explains the artist’s pre-occupation with this motif thr...

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Land of Fusion

Toshiki NAKANISHI

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In "Land of Fusion," Japanese photographer Toshiki Nakanishi explores Hokkaido's deep past. After spending years researching, visiting, and photographing the remaining ruins and sites of the Okhotsk culture, which settled on Hokkaido's northern coast from the 5t...

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Smoke and Steam

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Kentaro Kumon's photobook "Smoke and Steam" brings together more than 300 snapshots - mostly ordinary moments, but some extraordinary - taken over the course of a year with an old Olympus Pen FT camera, the first camera Kumon ever used, given to him by his father. Sl...

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Down on the Street

Takehiko NAKAFUJI

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“I am not a photographer who seeks to document events or social issues. Instead, I have simply ventured into the city, following my instincts and capturing images from a personal perspective.” "Down on the Street" features photographs by Takehiko Nakafuji taken on the str...