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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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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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Looking Back

Tamiko NISHIMURA

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The photographs in Tamiko Nishimura's 2024 publication "Looking Back" were taken between 1968 and the 1970s. They range from photographs taken while Nishimura was still a student at a photography school, to explorations of Okinawa before the Reversion Agreement came ...

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Shinjuku Lost Child

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“Walking from the East exit of Shinjuku station towards Kabukicho, my heart begins to pound. Kabukicho reveals human desire. I adore it. I slept on cardboard on the street, under neon, and it felt good. I was out of the machine and I saw myself differently. The cardboard bed is per...

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Finding Annu Aalto

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It was about 49 days after her passing when her parents visited Sokyusha to donate her unused films. Chiba-san, who was holding an exhibition at the gallery that day, received them. I was supposed to work at Sokyusha on the following day, there I was given 32 rolls of her will. She...

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'89 Tiananmen

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This 2024 edition of Kan Tai Wong's "'89 Tiananmen" series features 102 photographs taken by Wong to cover the 1989 student protests in Beijing's Tiananmen Square (plus six photographs taken between 1998 and 1999). In 1989, Wong was originally in Beijing to...

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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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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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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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Obi and Sand: Kyoto/Enoshima

Yoshio MIZOGUCHI

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Shot in Kyoto and Enoshima in the 1990s and 2000s, Yoshio Mizoguchi's "Obi and Sand" presents snapshots of women and strangers against the backdrop of Kyoto and the mysterious air of its history in the first part, and the Pacific Ocean and sandy beaches of Enoshima i...

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Roadside Lights Seasons: Winter (C)

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All four covers available Eiji Ohashi’s winterly landscapes with vending machines. “Roadside Lights Seasons: Winter” is a follow-up to Eiji Ohashi’s critically acclaimed photographic series of vending machines along roads throughout Japan. The volume focuses exclusively on scenes t...

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Cosmo-Eggs (Official catalogue of the Japanese Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale International Art Exhibition)

Motoyuki SHITAMICHI, Taro YASUNO, Toshiaki ISHIKURA, Fuminori NOUSAKU, Hiroyuki HATTORI

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The official catalogue for the “Cosmo-Eggs” exhibition at Japanese Pavilion on occasion of the 58th Venice Biennale Art Exhibition. Designed by Yoshihisa Tanaka (Tokyo Art Book Fair, Takeo Paper Show), the book provides an overview of the exhibition itself and – with many notes, co...

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Into the Silence

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Written at the end of the 17th century, Matsuo Basho’s travel journal “The Narrow Road to the Deep North” about the poet’s journey to the north of Japan remains one of the most influential and inspiring pieces of Japanese literature. Following his admiration for Basho and finding h...

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The Dialogue of Two

Akihito YOSHIDA

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"It wasn’t a dream. He really came back". "The Dialogue of Two" is the nearly three-year story of photographer Akihito Yoshida's grandmother until her death at the age of 88, left alone after Yoshida's cousin Daiki, who lived with her, took his own lif...

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die of love

Hideka TONOMURA

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Following earlier photobooks (“They Called Me Yukari”, “Mama Love”) in which Hideka Tonomura processed the seedier sides of life, her new work “die of love” can be considered as her own “theatre of love” - a love story woven by happiness, sadness, difficulties and ridiculousness. P...

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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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Eternity in a Moment Vol. 3

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Throughout the three volumes of "Eternity in a Moment," Mika Ninagawa seamlessly blends images of everyday urban life with diverse scenes from nature - flowers, fields, trees, fish, insects, and other animals. Her vibrant, varied photographs capture the impermanence of li...

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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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Nobuyoshi Araki Sentimental Journey 1971－ 2017－

Nobuyoshi ARAKI

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Nobuyoshi Araki has achieved world-wide acclaim for his photography, which he began creating in the 1960s. He is known for the great variety of themes and techniques he employs in his work, and for his drive to create, which has resulted in his publishing over 500 photobooks to dat...

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Ouroboros

Hiromi TSUCHIDA

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Hiromi Tsuchida's "Ouroboros" consists of two interrelated series shot between the early 1990s and 2005. In 1991, after the end of the economic bubble that fueled Japan's extraordinary growth and prosperity in the 1980s, Tsuchida began a series he called "I...