Book# 30841

Hosoe, Eikoh

Otoko to onna [Title transl. as: Man and woman. - Poems Tara Yamamoto. Texts Ed van der Elsken, Tatsuo Fukushima].

Ort   Tokyo
Verlag   Camerart, Inc.
Jahr   1961
Auflage   first edition
Einband   stamped yellow boards, photo-pictorial dust jacket, slipcase, with obi
Illustration, Ausstattung   34 b&w gravure reproductions
Medium   Buch

 

Text jap. with engl. transl. - Illustrated with rich gravure reproductions of Hosoe's elegant photographs. With rich, starkly contrasting photogravures, highlighted by bands of yellow and bright pink that depict the human form. The first collaborative effort between Eikoh Hosoe and dancer Tatsumi Hijikata, who was an important figure in Japan's 1960s avant garde.
Cat. auction Swann Galleries, New York, 18.05.2006 (sale 2080, lot 383): Estimate 2000-3000 $ (signed copy. With original obi.). - Dito 18.05.2006 (sale 2080, lot 524): Estimate 700-1000 $ (signed by Hosoe). - Auct. Swann Photographic Litertaure & Photographs, sale 2166, lot 124, New York, NY, 12 Dec. 2008, estimate: 1500-2000 $.
Photographie 20. Jahrh. Japan Monographie Elsken, Ed van der Literatur Yamamoto, Tara Fukushima, Tatsuo 

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