Artist Collective

Artist Collective
Deja vu Quarterly. Vol 1-13, 15-18,20, 1990-1995
2310

Tokyo: Toki Sayuri; Photo-Planète Co., 1990-1995. First ed. Complete run of 20 issues #1 through #20, plus the Special Issue. 4tos., various paginations, profusely illustrated in b&w and color, some folding leaves. Illustrated stiff wrappers. The issues are fine. The first three issues with printed wraparound bands (obi). In Japanese and English; though some of the essays and interviews are in Japanese only. Includes the following photographers: Araki, Moriyama, Shinoyama, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Seiji Kurata, Hamish Fulton, Wim Wenders, Robert Frank, Jan Saudek, Emmet Gowin, Martin Parr, Yutaka Takanashi, Nan Goldin, Shomeu Tomatsu, Kineo Kuwabara, Larry Clark, Sebastião Salgado, Kou Inose, Frederick Sommer, Mapplethorpe, et al. Includes bibliographies, biographies, interviews, essays, reviews. A complete run of all issues published of this important Japanese periodical.

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Camp Vol. 1 or Last!, 1980
1769

Paperback with printed cover. Moriyama started the Camp gallery as a way of promoting young Tokyo artists. Kitajima was the first photographer to show his work here, beginning with his Tokyo project, followed by Okinawa. This unique, ephemeral publication dates from 1980, marking the opening of the gallery and announcing planned projects. Names mentioned include Shibuya Noriko, Ohba Kazuhiro, Sugimoto Takeki, Asahikawa Takashi, Koike Masato, Tokunaga Kôichi, Yoshiuma Kazuo, Yamamoto Kazuya, Kobayashi Minoru and Yada Takashi.

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Off-Visual Quartery Magazine. vol 1, 1973
2308

Kikan Shoseki

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Geribara 5 (1 set, 3 vol.) Benjo (toilet), Mizugi no Yangu Redii-Tachi (Young Ladies in Bathing Suits), Five girls, 1971-1972
1757

Takase Yoshio, Araki Nobuyoshi, Takase Yoshio, Yaehata Koji, Tabogami Naohosia, Ikeda Fukuo, Kamiguchi Tomoko. Paperback with illustrated covers. Volume 1: Benjo (Toilette) 258x182 mm (10,1/4x7,1/4 in): 1971. Photographer: Takase Yoshio. 104pp. Paperback. 104 B&W photographs. Volume 2: Mizugi no Yangu Redii-Tachi (10,1/4x7,1/4 in): 1971. Photographers: Araki Nobuyoshi, Takase Yoshio, Yaehata Koji, Tabogami Naohosia, Ikeda Fukuo, Kamiguchi Tomoko. 102 pp. Paperback. 300 B&W photographs. Volume 3: Five Girls 250x182 mm (9,3/4x7,1/4 in). 1972 Photographer: Araki Nobuyoshi, Takase Yoshio, Yaehata Koji, Tabogami Naohosia, Ikeda Fukuo, Kamiguchi Tomoko. 86pp. Geribata brings together several young avant-garde Japanese photographers, of whom Araki is the most prominent, connected by similar tastes for farce and irony associated with their conceptual research. The first volume is a solo work by Takase Yoshio and deals mainly with graffiti in Tokyo public toilets. The second is a collective work uniting differently cropped portraits of young girls posing on Japanese beaches. The third, visually less homogenous, allows every photographer of the group to make a portrait of a woman of his choice.

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Ken, 1970-1971
1974

Ken was published by Shaken, a company established by the photographer Tomatsu Shomei, who provided the cover photograph for the first issue. Each of the three issues that appeared before the magazine ceased publication was edited by a different photographer: Sawano Yoshio, Naito Masatoshi, and Kimura Tsunehisa. The first issue contained criticism of the Osaka World Exposition and cultural criticism related to photography. Contributors included Taki Koji, Moriyama Daido, Nakahira Takuma, and Araki Nobuyoshi.

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Provoke (3 vol.), 1968 - 1969
1786

Provoke 3: 1968. Taki, Koji ; Takanashi, Yutaka ; Nakahira, Takuma ; Moriyama, Daido ; Text by Yoshinmasu, poem by Okada. Paperback with printed cover. 239x185 mm (9,1/2x7, 1/4 in), 110 pp. Complete collection of this legendary publication (NB: Provoke 4 appeared in 1970, after the group fell apart) uniting the most innovative post-war Japanese photographers. Breaking tradition and taboo, Provoke presented a new style - violent, dirty, embracing the accidental, the blur and shadow of social critique.

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