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Noboyoshi Araki
Tin Ashes, 2008
3218-BK
vol. 13 Nobuyoshi Araki photographs Michel Bulteau text Olivier Andreotti case The photographs belonging to Tin Ashes were taken in the early seventies. They represent crushed soda cans found in the streets of Tokyo and arranged as a tableau. The images remind us as much of New Realism as of Andy Warhol in their borrowing of the same ambiguous rapport to the icons of consumer society with that particular blend of fascination and critique. Araki’s “petchancola” have inspired Michel Bulteau to write six poems full of the spectre of death and the “practice of old witches or sorcerers”. For the poet, the cans represent funeral urns designed to carry ashes and bones. The poems, translated into Japanese, are printed as overprints with a two-coloured mesh, resulting in what resembles modular origami, some of which are assembled to form a decorative whole. The traycase takes its inspiration from the steep slopes that crown most buildings in Tokyo and its choice of material–painted plastic recalls contemporary Japanese architecture. Nobuyoshi Araki Artiste japonais né en 1940, Nobuyoshi Araki garde de son enfance le souvenir d’un Tokyo dévasté par les bombardements. Depuis plus de 30 ans, il observe et documente les mutations du Japon, dans une oeuvre particulièrement protéiforme, d’inspiration auto-biographique. Il est l’auteur de sa propre légende, son œuvre se développant à la façon d’un récit auto-biographique, hanté par la perte et la possession amoureuse. Michel Bulteau Michel Bulteau was 21 years old when he published Le Manifeste électrique (the Electric Manifesto). In 1972 he had the decisive encounter of meeting William Burroughs and Brion Gysin in London. He settled in New York in 1976 where he soon became part of the punk movement, joining the circle around Warhol and the Beat writers. His memories of New York infuse his book, New York est une fête, brought out by the French publishers, La Différence. After returning to Paris a certain dandyism and fin-de-siècle aesthetic, which has always hovered in the background, finds its full expression in a number of books: Minuties (La Différence, 1989), L’exilé de Venise, essai sur Corvo (Le Rocher, 1990), Le club des longues moustaches (Quai Voltaire, 1988). Description: Tokyo Triptych 3/3 6 original signed photographs (gelatin silver prints), mounted on cardboard Case made of painted plastic 46,8 x 42,7 x 5 cm Text in French and Japanese Limited edition of 40 copies November 2008 Graphic design: Olivier Andreotti
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Noboyoshi Araki
Shashin gekijo: Tokyo ereji (A Photo Theater: Tokyo Elegy), 1981
1774
Paperback with illustrated dust-jacket and bellyband. Text by Shunji Ito and Kazuo Nishii. 1045 photographs shot between 1967 and 1972. Conceived by Araki. Here we see, for the first time, the themes of violent sexual practices and, in particular, of bondage so often present in the artist's work. The book combines black and white and colour imagery, with close-ups and wide angle shots, interior and landscape, frequently laid out in mosaic form. Tokyo Ereji was not published until ten years after its conception and realisation (1964 - 1972).
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Noboyoshi Araki
Oo Nippon (Oh Japan!), 1971
1754
10 5/8 x 8 1/8 in. (27 x 20.5 cm)
Paperback with printed cover. 225 photographs printed using the heliogravure method. Text by Uchida Eiichi. The strong erotic element of this work would become a characteristic of Araki's style. Female models are photographed nude in front of plain background and organised in sequence. Pubic hair is, in conformity with censorship laws, covered with dark marker pen. It was not allowed to show intercourse however when three pages are put together in s specific order Araki makes these scenes visable. *This was his FIRST published book, before this he did make a series of 25 hand made photocopy books in very small editions.
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Nobuyoshi Araki
Shashin gekijo: Tokyo ereji (A Photo Theater: Tokyo Elegy), 1981
1774
7 3/8 x 9 3/8 in. (19 x 24 cm)
Tokyo: Tojusha.
Illustrated with 1045 photographs taken between 1967 and 1972, in both color and black-and-white. Text by Shunji Ito and Kazuo Nishii. Original wrappers with photo-illustrated dust jacket and bellyband.
Originally scheduled for publication in 1972, but not published until almost a decade later, this work is a visual compendium of extreme images of sex and violence (the book was never published outside of Japan). The variety of edited scenarios include many of Araki's most famous images, including those of his wife Yoko and also Yukio Mishima (Kimitake Hiraoka, an author). The themes of violent sexual practice, and in particular of bondage, so often present in the artist's work are captured through a combination of black-and-white and color imagery, with the use of both numerous close-ups and wide-angle shots, and ranging from staged interiors to landscape views.
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Nobuyoshi Araki
Oh Nippon! (Oh Japan !), 1971
1754
10 5/8 x 8 in. (27 x 20.6 cm)
Tokyo: Miki Shuppan.
Illustrated with 225 black-and-white heliogravure-printed photographs. Design by Mikuo Nakamura. Textured endpapers. Original photo-illustrated French-style wrappers with elongated flaps.
First edition of Araki's initial conventionally published book following his early series of photocopy books. Despite the eroticism being more playful and non-threatening than is evident in his later bondage-obsessed books, Araki still to combat problems with the Japanese censors. Many of his proposed images were rejected. A compromise, at least in terms of Araki's original vision and imagery, was found with the development by Nakamura of a layout that split the rejected images into sections which could be reassembled by folding opposing pages together across multiple spreads. With the censors appeased, Araki was able to publish something close to the book he had originally intended.
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Artistes Divers
Miriorama 6, 1960
3868-BK
12 1/8 x 8 1/4 in. (31 x 21 cm)
Galleria Pater, Milan, 3-6 March 1960- ANCESCHI, BORIANI, COLOMBO, DEVECCH
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Japanese Photography Artistes Divers
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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Japanese Photography Artistes Divers
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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Alois Auer
Faust. Poligrafisch-illustrierte Zeitschrift, 1854
3051-BK
Monthly Illustrated magazine for Art, Science, Industry, and Social life the early, important compendium of printing methods and techniques. Early salt prints include St. Stephan's Cathedral and Tower, Venice, a microscopic image of a Fohren-Spinne larvae, magnified 3000 x and 3 magnified insect wings, by Ernst Heeger. The 32 early nature prints show lace samples, seaweeds, plants, sections of wood, leaves, textiles, fish tail, and a full bat with open wings! Also illustrated with hundreds of chromolithographs (several folding), woodcuts, etchings, engravings, mezzotints, embossings, and more featuring landscapes, genre scenes, nautical, medallions, flora and fauna, book illustration, and others. Alois Auer was the director of the Austrian State Printing House, at the time the largest and most advanced in Europe, which created illustrated volumes of scientific interest and produced many advances in printing technology.
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Tauba Auerbach
Spray Through(Tubes), 2011
4333-BK
16 x 13 3/4 in. (40.6 x 34.9 cm)
Drawing inspiration from principles of mathematics and physics, Auerbach’s work straddles conceptual art, abstraction, and design. With an evocation of graphic art, this book demonstrates systems of logic pictorially. Each sheet has an array of cutouts used as spray paint stencils to create a pattern of circles and tubular pill shapes. Spray paint on plotter cut Bristol paper with cloth binding. Card inserted in the book serves as the colophon.
Edition of 10 copies.
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Louise Bourgeois
Ode a La Bievre, 2007
2137
16 7/8 x 12 15/16 in. (43 x 33 cm)
Third version of the original book in fabric. Housed in a blind embossed cardboard slipcase, with a white Japanese linen embossed cover. Edition of 1800. 54 pages. Published by Matthew Zucker, New York.
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Victor Brauner
Frappe de l’Echo, 1940
4471-BK
7 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. (19.1 x 14 cm)
Baruner’s first artist’s book. Includes one signed etching and aquatint. Text by Robert Rius.
Published by Éditions Surréalistes, Paris.
One of the author’s copies with an inscription by the surrealist poet Rius to his friend and artist, Wolfgang Paalen "Who went stealing one night all the remaining sculptures on Easter Island."
Edition of 70 copies
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Jean-Marc Bustamante
Maisons Pour Insomniques, 2003
2041
vol. 1 Jean-Marc Bustamante photographs Mario Bellatin text Konstantin Grcic case The photographs, taken in 2003, during one of Jean-Marc Bustamante’s travels in Uruguay, are the outgrowth of a recent projects-in-the-works by the artist, Something is Missing, which carries the leitmotiv of journeying and wandering freely. The five photos chosen for the work form a compact module directed toward livable and lived in spaces, houses for insomniacs. Here Mario Bellatin is striving for a reconstruction of Kafka’s Metamorphosis, evoking a single episode for each house, a topographical insomnia. The designer Konstantin Grcic chose black foam 10 cm thick for the casing, burning its surface to achieve the effect of access routes and tight asphalt turns – the photographer’s favorite theme. The text appears in blocks of varying sizes of type whose outline forms a border inspired by the drawings of houses. Jean-Marc Bustamante Jean-Marc Bustamante was born in Toulouse, France, in 1952. From 1977 to 1982, he produced more than 130 photo canvases–landscapes of the outskirts of Barcelona– exhibited for the first time in 1994 at the Kunsthalle in Berne. His work has been exhibited in numerous museums, most notably at La Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume in Paris. In 2003, he represented France at the Venice Biennial. Mario Bellatin Mario Bellatin was born in 1960 in México City where he currently lives. He had his first five books published in Perú. His work, translated into German, English and French, is as difficult to decipher as his biography, a life he likes to invent through the course of his various interviews and encounters. His writing, infused with the Japanese aesthetic and photography, stands out for its radical minimalism. Konstantin Grcic Born in Germany in 1965. After his studies at London’s Royal College of Art, Konstantin Grcic worked in Jasper Morrison’s studio before moving to Munich where he opened his own agency in 1991. His modular furniture, developed over the last few years mainly for Classicon and Magis, are among the designs that make him a major figure in contemporary design. In 2001, he received the Compasso d’Oro for his lamp Mayday. Description: 5 original signed photographs (chromogenic prints), set in photo-corners Case made of foam and plastic sheets 58,5 x 43 x 10,8 cm Text in Spanish and French Limited edition of 30 copies October 2003 Graphic design: Olivier Andreotti
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Pia Camil
Xiuquilla/Blue milk weed, 2017
09891-BK
19 5/8 x 19 5/8 in. (50 x 50 cm)
Hand sewn cotton leporello book, with screenprinting, in cloth box with colophon.
Published by Zucker Art Books, NY. Edition of 8 variants, with 2 AP.
Each copy is signed and numbered.
Each book is handmade from repurposed fabrics the artist found in Mexico City. Camil’s interventions include cutting shapes common in cloth making such as sleeves, collars, torsos, and recombining them in a colorful array, hand sewn into a double sided sequence. She designed small buttonholes in between the panels so the work can be hung as a banner as well, choosing either side. This sort of interaction between the work and the viewer is a key element throughout Camil’s oeuvre, which even includes works to be worn or walked on.
Pia Camil (b. 1980) lives and works in Mexico City. She has a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from the Slade School of Fine Art, London. Her work has been exhibited internationally, with recent solo-exhibitions including A Pot for a Latch, New Museum, New York (2016); Skins, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati (2015); The Little Dog Laughed, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles (2014); and Cuadrado Negro, Basque Museum Centre for Contemporary Art, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain (2013).
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Castellani
ESTROFLESSIONE, 1968
7113-BK
11 3/4 x 11 3/4 in. (30 x 30 cm)
Published by Achille Mauri Editore.
PVC white plastic injection moulded multiple, Book titled "Enrico Castellani Pittore" with text by V. Agnetti, encased in printed cardboard box.
edition of 1,000 copies
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Enrico Castellani
Estroflessione, 1968
7113-BK
11 3/4 x 11 3/4 in. (30 x 30 cm)
Thermoformed plastic multiple and accompanying booklet with text on the artist by Vincenzo Agnetti, encased in printed cardboard box.
Published by Achille Mauri Editore, Milan.
Edition of 1000 copies.
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Onishi Chinnen
Sonan Gafu, 1834
2274
10 5/8 x 7 1/8 in. (27 x 18 cm)
A celebrated example by the most accomplished artist of the Shijo School of the Edo Period in Japan. The color woodblock printing is sophisticated, imitating accurately the effects of the watercolor brush. There are amusing devices such as turtles aiming bow-and-arrow at a spread lotus leaf held out by another turtle; depictions of ordinary life of the fishermen coming home with their catch; bold and excellent compositions of flowers and leaves in a remarkable number of colors; a boat party on a lake by the mountains; a bird flying into wisteria; a marvelous great kimono whose wearer sits at her calligraphy. Jack Hillier, an authority on the art of the Japanese book, used the illustration of mountain pines on the cover of his definitive study on the genre Ehon. This is a superb copy, the printing particularly clear. Thread-bound book; 26 illustrated sheets and three sheets of text; woodblock; ink and color on paper. Signed, with red seal. JH 325.
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Milagros De La Torre
Troubles de la Vue, 2005
808
vol. 2
Milagros De La Torre photographs
José Manuel Prieto text
Pierre Charpin case
This is the first time Milagros De La Torre has approached the field of color photography. For a whole year the artist kept a record of the different bruises – accidental she points out – she detected on her body.
She opted for close-up framing in order to reinforce their plastic quality. What they form appears to be sensual and abstract landscapes. Echoes of such a landscape resound in José Manuel Prieto’s text which describes the private love of someone whose sight is diminishing—the metaphysical disorder that comes with his infirmity.
We called upon Pierre Charpin because we felt he would be most apt at entering into dialogue with the artist and the author, being particularly sensitive to the metamorphic quality of their language. The casing is made up of two shells in molded plastic that are fitted together with magnets. The text flows in an oblong shape that requires a circular reading–especially fitting to the nature of José Manuel Prieto’s prose.
Milagros De La Torre
Born in Lima, Peru, in 1965. Milagros De La Torre lives and works in New York. Her work has appeared in a number of personal exhibitions: Palais de Tokyo (Paris, 1993), Universidad de Salamanca (1997), Museo Carrillo Gil (1999). Most notably her works are featured in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts (Houston), Fonds national d’Art contemporain (Paris), Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (Madrid)…
José Manuel Prieto
Born in Cuba in 1962, José Manuel Prieto lived in Russia for twelve years. He teaches literature in New York where he lives with his family. His first novel, translated into French, Papillons de nuit dans l’empire de Russie, was published by Christian Bourgois in March 2003 and is already considered a classic in Hispano-American literature.
Pierre Charpin
A graduate of L’Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Bourges, Pierre Charpin is known for his atypical designs charged with a strong plasticity, making him one of the leading figures in the avant-garde of French design. In tandem with his limited editions, and prototypical studies, he collaborates with various companies as Post Design, Zanotta, Montina, Venini, Alessi… He was awarded Designer of the Year at the Furniture Salon in Paris 2005.
Description:
5 original signed photographs (chromogenic prints), set in photo-corners
Case made of painted molded plastic
38 x 33 x 3,8 cm
Text in Spanish and French
Limited edition of 30 copies
November 2003
Graphic design: Olivier Andreotti
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Artistes Divers MODERN
Paroles Peintres IV, 1970
2
Portfolio with 7 original etchings in color, each with poems by a contemporary writer. Folio, loose in printed wrappers with cloth slipcase. Extra suite of the etchings, each signed by the following artists: Debre, Tapies, Tal-Coat, Reynols, Matta, Lepatre and Henry Moore.
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Artistes Divers MODERN
Paroles Peintres I, 1962
3
Portfolio containing 14 original graphics, each accompanied by poems of a contemporary writer. Folio loose in printed wrappers and cloth slipcase.
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Reinhard Dohl
Bedepequ, 1967
5922-BK
12 9/16 x 13 3/8 in. (32 x 34 cm)
Edition Hansjorg mayer, Stuttgart, Germany
Copy n 18 of 200
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Mitch Epstein
Fraternity, 2006
1836
vol. 7 Mitch Epstein photographs Siddharta Deb text Pierre Charpin case The author describes the daily life of two students at the University of Calcutta who come from very different social backgrounds, which they are both trying to escape from. The minute detail in which the author records their physical and mental movements and every change in mood finds its resonance in the refined prosaic nature of Mitch Epstein’s photographs. Pierre Charpin designed a traycase with a blue lacquered lid as an echo of the photographer’s strong emphasis on color and his ties with the Memphis movement. The text is fractured into seven modules, each contained within a uniform yellow form whose outlines recall the design of the casing. Mitch Epstein Mitch Epstein was born in 1952 in Holyoke, Massachusetts. His is one of the pioneers of color photography in the United States. His photos have been exhibited in numerous institutions throughout the world and form part of such prestigious collections as the Metropolitan Museum, New York, the MOMA and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. To this day he has had five books published: Recreation: American Photographs 1973-1988 (Steidl, 2005), Family Business (Steidl, 2003), The City (powerHouse Books, 2001), Vietnam: A Book of Changes (Norton/DoubleTake, 1996), Mitch Epstein: Work (Steidl, 2006). Siddharta Deb Siddharta Deb was born in 1970 in North East India. His first novel, The point of return, was selected as Book of the Year by The Times Literary Supplement and The New York Times. His last novel, An Outline of the Republic (published in England and India as Surface) has just been published in paperback. He has written on India for the Boston Globe, the Columbia Journalism Review and the Guardian. Pierre Charpin A graduate of L’Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Bourges, Pierre Charpin is known for his atypical designs charged with a strong plasticity, making him one of the leading figures in the avant-garde of French design. In tandem with his limited editions, and prototypical studies, he collaborates with various companies as Post Design, Zanotta, Montina, Venini, Alessi… He was awarded Designer of the Year at the Furniture Salon in Paris 2005. Description: 7 original signed photographs (chromogenic prints), set in photo-corners Case made of poplar wood, partially lacquered 58,8 x 42,6 x 4,9 cm Text in French and English Limited edition of 35 copies Juin 2006 Graphic design: Olivier Andreotti
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Hector Garcia
5 Fotos, 2004
3052-BK
vol. 3 Héctor García photographs Paco Ignacio Taibo II text Olivier Andreotti case The décor is the same for Héctor García and Paco Ignacio Taibo II, that of surreal and thoroughly corrupt México City. Both see their work-the roman noir and photography respectively-as a form of very effective militancy. “Writing” says PIT, “is a way of carrying on the struggle against the state by other means.” They describe the same sprawling world, peopled by crooked, corrupt police officers, homeless children, retired wrestlers… Héctor García Héctor García was born in Mexico City in 1923. He is considered to be the best photojournalist in modern-day Mexican history. His especially prolific body of work stands out from all others in its scope, embracing all of his native megalopolis’s history. He has photographed all its haunts, from the elites’ to those of the anonymous inhabitant. His work has most notably figured in a retrospective at the Modern Art Museum of México City. Paco Ignacio Taibo II Paco Ignacio Taibo II was born in 1949 in Gijón where he directs the Festival of the roman noir. He lives in México City. He has had some fifty books published, among them Four hands, (St. Martins Press, 1994), and Ernesto Guevara, Known Also as el Che (Planeta, 2004). He is considered a leading figure in the genre of the roman noir. Description: 5 original signed photographs (gelatin silver prints), set in photo-corners Case made of painted steel sheets 37,2 x 37,2 x 2,5 cm Text in Spanish, English and French Limited edition of 30 copies + 9 A.P September 2004 Graphic design: Olivier Andreotti
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![GERIBARA 5. [Nobuyoshi Araki et al]., Mizugi no Yangu Redii-Tachi (Bathing Beauties); Benjo (Toilet); Five Girls
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GERIBARA 5. [Nobuyoshi Araki et al].
Mizugi no Yangu Redii-Tachi (Bathing Beauties); Benjo (Toilet); Five Girls, 1971, 1971, 1972
1757
7 1/8 x 10 in. (18.2 x 25.4 cm)
Tokyo: Fukushu-Shudan, Geribara 5.
Benjo: 104 black-and-white photographs printed in offset. Side-stapled in original photo-illustrated wrappers.
Mizugi no Yangu Redii-Tachi: 306 black-and-white photographs printed in offset. Side-stapled in original photo-illustrated wrappers.
Five Girls: 84 black-and-white photographs printed in offset. Side-stapled in original photo-illustrated wrappers.
The complete set of three books produced by Geribara 5 [The Diarrhoea-Shit Reproductive Collective of 5], a group which consisted of Araki, Yoshio Takase, Koji Yaehata, Naohosia Tabogami, Fukuo Ikeda, and Tomoko 'Miss Geribara' Kamiguchi, which flourished briefly in the early 1970s.
Benjo contains a series of photographs taken in Tokyo restrooms of the toilets and attendant graffiti. Each page of Mizugi no Yangu Redii-Tach contains three photographs showing different young women on the beach in bathing suits. Below each photograph is the girl's address and telephone number, half of which are allegedly made up, the rest genuine according to Shuji Terayama, who apparently tried phoning all of them. The last book, Five Girls, contains photographs of five models posing in various styles.
[Ref. Martin Parr & Gerry Badger, The Photobook: A History, vol.I, p. 296].
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