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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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'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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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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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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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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Solitude Standing

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"Solitude Standing" is published on the occasion of the 100th birthday of Japanese photographer Ichiro Kojima. Born in Aomori in 1924, Ichiro Kojima captured life in the harsh environment of the Tohoku region of northern Japan. Kojima's life was cut short at the youn...

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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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New Land - Pre-Hokkaido Landscapes

Toshiki NAKANISHI

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The mountains of Hokkaido, photographed like a distant planet. Landscapes beyond recognition. Unearthly scenes from a primordial world. In his photobook “New Land: Pre-Hokkaido Landscapes,” the Japanese photographer Toshiki Nakanishi engages the Daisetsuzan mountain range in search...

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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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Sasuke

Masahisa FUKASE

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Divided into four chapters, the new publication “Sasuke” presents an organized collection of Fukase’s cat photography. Sasuke (and later Tomoe) was a faithful companion to Fukase, and became a regular subject of his photography. As with his most famous series “Raven”, Fukase’s phot...

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The Dreaming

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A stunning, somnolent journey through a monochrome world. 27 years ago, he notes in his afterword, Yasuhiro Ogawa took the ferry from Kobe to Shanghai and emerged on a long journey through Asia, taking him to China, Myanmar, India, Cambodia, Tibet and other countries. The photograp...

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Tokyo120

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Following his 2023 photobook "Nebraska, The Good Life," John Sypal again turns his attention to the Japanese capital, where he has lived for nearly two decades. Sypal, whose influences include Japanese greats such as Nobuyoshi Araki, Daido Moriyama, and Suda Issei, has sp...

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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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Tenko

Hanayo, Hajime SAWATARI

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Hanayo found the Alice book on her way home from school. She was 15. Tenko moved to Tokyo and met Hajime Sawatari. She was 15. In London, when Alice was photographed, Hanayo was 3. Alice was Tenko’s favourite book when she was 3. When Hanayo moved to London, she was 19. Tenko left ...

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Tokyo on the Brink of Sanity

Yoshio MIZOGUCHI

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Japanese photographer Yoshio Mizoguchi’s photobook “Tokyo on the Brink of Sanity” captures the Japanese megalopolis at a time of disreality, between the late 1980s and early 2000s, when the sudden disappearance of the great fantasy of the bubble gradually began to permeate life in ...

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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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Citizens in society 1989 - 1994

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In “Citizens in Society (1989 – 1994)”, his latest book of street photography, Jun Abe adopted the same approach he employed in his 1979-’83 series “Citizens (published as a book in 2009). Shot on the streets of Osaka, “Citizens in Society” once again exemplifies Abe’s almost uncan...

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Masahisa Fukase 1961-1991 Retrospective

Masahisa FUKASE

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The magic of Masahisa Fukase’s lifework in a single book This pocket-sized photobook, published to accompy a large-scale retrospective at the Tokyo Photographic Museum, offers a comprehensive look at the entire oevre of master photographer Masahisa Fukase. Revered for his relentles...

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Daido Moriyama: Ango (Japanese Edition)

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“In the old times, before the capital changed from Kyoto to Tokyo, cherry trees were considered a frightful sight. No one thought them a sign of beauty. […] Without a trace of human life beneath it, a cherry in full bloom becomes a fearful sight.” The fifth instalment of Match &...

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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...