Five Aspects of Japanese Photobooks Ryuichi Kaneko Photobook Phenomenon

Photobook Phenomenon
VicenC Villatoro
ISBN 10: 8417047050 / ISBN 13: 9788417047054
Published by Rm/Ccccb/Fundacion Foto Colectania

Hardcover. Dimensions: 10.2in. x 7.5in. x 1.0in.As the photobook becomes increasingly broadly recognized as a genre with its own rich history, canon and critical culture, Photobook Phenomenon surveys the views of those who have played a leading role in defining this genre: Martin Parr, Gerry Badger, Markus Schaden and Frederic Lezmi, Horacio Fernandez, Ryuichi Kaneko, Erik Kessels, Irene de Mendoza and Moritz Neumuller. In addition, it features various contemporary artists who have contributed a genuine vision to the medium and who discuss the creative processes involved in producing a photobook: Laia Abril, Julian Baron, Alejandro Cartagena, Jana Romanova, Vivianne Sassen, Thomas Sauvin i Katja Stuke and Oliver Sieber. Photobook Phenomenon also explores the challenge of displaying a photobook through a number of interactive systems that make it possible to look through and experience the book and photography from diverse viewpoints.

                  Photographic Department of the Imperial Headquarters

                  A Photographic-Album of the Japan-China War, Part III: 
                  Wei-hai-wei
                  Ogawa Kazumasa, Tòquio, 1895

                  Photographic Department of the Imperial Headquarters
                  The Russo-Japanese War, First Army
                  K. Ogawa, Tòquio, 1904

                  Kohoku Iida
                  Iida Kohoku Photographic Works
                  Autoedició, Tòquio, 1912

                  Masao Horino
                  Camera, Eye x Steel, Construction 1930–1931
                  Mokuseisha Shoin, Tòquio, 1932

                  Kiyoshi Koishi
                  Early Summer Nerves
                  Naniwa Photography Club, Osaka, 1933

                  Ihei Kimura i Shunkichi Kikuchi
                  Tokyo: Fall of 1945
                  Bunka-sha, Tòquio 1946

                  Hiroshi Hamaya
                  Snow Land
                  The Mainichi Newspapers, Tòquio, 1956

                  Yasuhiro Ishimoto
                  Someday Somewhere
                  Geibi Shuppansha, Tòquio, 1958

                  Ken Domon
                  The Children of Chikuho
                  Patoria Shoten, Tòquio, 1960 (Segona edició)

                  Ken Domon
                  Pilgrimage to Old Temples
                  Bijutsu Shuppan, Tòquio, 1963

                  Daido Moriyama
                  A Japanese Theater
                  Muromachi Shobo, Tòquio, 1968

                  Eikoh Hosoe
                  Kamaitachi
                  Gendai Shichousha, Tòquio, 1969

                  Ikko Narahara
                  España: Grand Tarde
                  Kyuryudo, Tòquio, 1969

                  Shigeo Gocho i Masao Sekiguchi
                  Days
                  Autoedició, Tòquio, 1971

                  Nobuyoshi Araki
                  Sentimental Journey
                  Autoedició, Tòquio, 1971

                  Kiyoshi Suzuki
                  Soul and soul
                  Autoedició, Yokohama, 1972

                  Hiromi Tsuchida
                  Gods of the Earth
                  Ottos Books, Yokohama, 1976

                  Miyako Ishiuchi
                  Apartment
                  Shashin Tsushinsha, Tòquio, 1978

                  Kikuji Kawada
                  The Map
                  Bijutsu Shuppansha, Tòquio, 1965

                  Ikko Narahara
                  Europe: Where Time has Stopped
                  Kajima Shuppankai, Tòquio, 1967

                  Takuma Nakahira
                  For a Language to Come
                  Fudosha, Tòquio, 1970

                  Yasuhiro Yoshioka
                  Bestiality: Third Venus
                  Sogo Tosho, Tòquio, 1971

                  Hitoshi Tsukiji, Shinzo Shimao, Naoya Hatakeyama, Norio 
                  Kobayashi
                  Cameraworks
                  Tòquio, 1980 (vols. No. 5 & No. 7), 1982 (No. 9), 1983 
                  (No.10)

                  Yutaka Takanashi
                  Towards the City
                  Izara Shobo, Tòquio, 1974

                  Hitoshi Tsukiji
                  Perpendicularly (Territory)
                  Autoedició, Yokohama, 1975

                  Jun Morinaga
                  River?Its Shadow of Shadows
                  Yugensha, Tòquio, 1978

                  Miyako Ishiuchi
                  Yokosuka Story
                  Shashin Tsushinsha, Tòquio, 1979

                  Masato Sakano
                  Talking About Fussa
                  Shashin Tsushinsha, Tòquio, 1980

                  Yutaka Takanashi
                  Tokyo-ite
                  Shoshi Yamada, Tòquio, 1983

                  Hitoshi Tsukiji
                  Photo-Image
                  Cameraworks, Tòquio, 1984

                  Toshio Yamada
                  The Family
                  Shashin Tsushinsha, Tòquio, 1987

                  Eikoh Hosoe
                  Barakei - Ordeal by Roses
                  Shueisha, Tòquio, 1963

                  Eikoh Hosoe
                  Barakei - Ordeal by Roses
                  Shueisha, Tòquio, 1971

                  Eikoh Hosoe
                  Barakei - Ordeal by Roses
                  Aperture, Nova York, 1984

                  Eikoh Hosoe
                  Barakei - Ordeal by Roses
                  YMP, Tòquio, 2015

                  Shomei Tomatsu
                  Nippon
                  Shaken, Tòquio, 1967

                  Asahi Camera
                  Asahi Shimbunsha, Tòquio
                  Genr, febrer, març 1960

                  Bijutsu Techo
                  Bijutsu Shuppansha, Tòquio, abril 1962

                  Camera Mainichi
                  Mainichi Shimbunsha, Tòquio, setembre 1964 /gener 1965

                  Chuo-koron
                  Chuo-koronsha, Tòquio, abril i agost,  1960

                  Iwanami Photo Paperback, Japanese Casualties of Flood, 
                  n. 124
                  Iwanami Shoten, Tòquio, 1954

                  Iwanami Photo Paperback, Town of Pottery, n. 165
                  Iwanami Shoten, Tòquio, 1955

                  Photo Art
                  Kenkosha, Tòquio - gener, febrer, marc, juny, juliol i agost 
                  1960

                  Shomei Tomatsu
                  Brilliant Breeze: Okinawa (12 volums)
                  Shuei-sha, Tòquio, 1978

                  Motohiro Sato
                  Hello, 1970
                  Sodosha, Tòquio, 1969

                  Toshio Enomoto, Tadao Kato, Kazuto Kamo, Masato Koji
                  Four situation for situation
                  Tokyo Zokei University Printing Workshop, Tòquio, 1970

                  Students of Tadasuke Akiyama studying at the 
                  Tokyo College of Photography, Published
                  Annually
                  Okinawa '72 – '82 (9 volums)
                  Tokyo College of Photography, Yokohama, 1973–1981

                  Daido Moriyama
                  Another Country in New York
                  Autoedició, Tòquio, 1974

                  Masahiro Minato
                  No Maritime Mind
                  Trans Inc., Tòquio, 1978

                  Kazuyuki Kawaguchi
                  Okinawa Hallucination Trip
                  Autoedició, Himeji, Prefectura de Hyogo, 1978

                  Keizo Kitajima
                  Photo Express Tokyo (12 volums)
                  Autoedició, Tòquio, 1979 (edició facsímil)

                  Osamu Takizawa
                  Gestation of a Dream
                  Autoedició, Tòquio, 1981

                  Hiroshi Hamaya
                  Calendar Days of Asa Hamaya
                  Edició no venal, Kanagawa, 1985

                  Michio Yamauchi
                  To Man
                  Place M, Tòquio, 1992

Takuma Nakahira
For a language to come
Photographs: Takuma Nakahira
Text: Takuma Nakahira
Publisher: Fudo-sha
192 pages
Pictures: 103
Year: 1970

Comments: Hardcover with jacket and card slipcase, 300 x 212 mm. First edition, 1970. Gravure printing. Included in Martin Parr & Gerry Badger, The Photobook, vol. I, p.292-293 ; Ryuichi Kaneko & Ivan Vartanian, The Japanese Photobooks of the 1960's and 1970's, p.130-133.

"Through his photographs and writings Takuma Nakahira was both the chief polemicist for the Provoke group and its political conscience. Along with Moriyama's Sashin yo Sayonara (Bye Bye Photography), his book Kitarubeki Kotoba no Tameni (For a language to come) marks the apogee of the Provoke period. It exhibits all the characteristics of the Provoke style - an unabashed revelling in "bad" photographic technique, the mannerisms of the New York School pushed to the edge of coherence. These qualities would tend to make the casual reader bracket it with Moriyama's masterpiece, yet a closer look at Nakahira's book reveals that Nakahira's sensibility is quite different. Althoug the more political of the two, Nakahira didt not photograph "political" subjects directly, but utilized a troubled lyricism to express his disaffection with the colonization of Japan by American consumerism. Whereas Moriyama is jumpy and frenetic in tone, Nakahira displays a brooding calm. For a language to come closes with several shots of the sea, and the book's narrative is punctured at intervals with marine images. Far from suggesting boundless space, this is a dark, bleak and menacing sea, with the consistency of soup, a metaphor for claustrophobia and a narrowing of horizons.

The other overwhelming metaphor in the book is fire, an apocalyptic, post-Hiroshima conflagration, often expressed indirectly in Nakahira's night pictures with swathes of burned-out lens flare. These "natural" metaphors - water and fire - remind us that this is essentially a "landscape" book, though a landscape of the mind. The two, however, are inextricably related (...). These are sad, beautiful pictures of half-light - and half-life. They are quintessential Provoke images, and stand for much postwar Japanese photography prior to the 1980s."

Martin Parr & Gerry Badger, The Photobook: A History, vol.I

1 Photobook printing

1933: Frühsommerliche Empfindlichkeit (Faksimile 2005)

Shoka Shinkei - Early Summer Nerves. / Kiyoshi KOISHI. – Faksimile der 1933 im Naniwa Shashin Club in Osaka erschienenen Originalausgabe. Nr. 134/600. – Tokyo: Kokusho Kanko-kai 2005. – 2°. [25] Bl. mit 10 Abb., 12 S. Kommentarheft mit englischer Übersetzung. Aluminium-Deckel mit Ringbindung in illustriertem Schuber. – (Masterpieces of Japanese Photography ; 02)

Das nur in wenigen Exemplaren erhaltene Künstlerbuch der japanischen Moderne von Kiyoshi Koishi (1908-1957) wurde 2005 durch Kakusho Kanko-kai in Tokyo als Faksimile herausgebracht. 600 Exemplare erschienen dann bei Kakusho Kanko-kai selbst (vorliegend) und 100 Exemplare bei Nazraeli Press. - Die Deckel sind beim Original nicht aus Zink, wie bei Parr/Badger aufgeführt, sondern aus einer Aluminium-Legierung.

Ref.: Parr/Badger, The Photobook, volume I, S. 113. Fotografia Publica, S. 148.

2 Photographers and Designers

Miyako Ishiuchi
Yokosuka Story
Photographs: Miyako Ishiuchi
Text: Ken Bloom & Miyako Ishiuchi
Publisher: Shashin Tsushin Sha
Year: 1979
Comments: Softcover with obi as issued, 235 x 290 mm. Black & white photographs. First edition, 1979. Referenced in Parr&Badger vol 1 p304.

"Yokosuka - it was a place that I never thought I'd go back to, a city I wouldn't want to walk in twice ; it was land best forgotten as far as I was concerned. Never did I think I would go back like this.

The gloomy darkness and cold excavations of Yokosuka, where odd things and happenings were fused in a complicated interlocking, threw shadows that stayed with me for a long time, even after the city was far, far away. By getting away, I expected the shadows to dissolve and disappear, but instead, after I left, a new feeling - different from when I lived there - began to well up and take over. I felt that I had to go back there with a camera, yet somehow my legs just wouldn't head in that direction. To Yokosuka... (...)

It had been nine years since I left, but my Yokosuka was still there as it had been. The gloom had grown deeper and the excavated mountain faces had become steeper. Though years had passed, nothing of this "Yokosuka" had changed."

Barakei

HOSOE, Eikoh and Yukio Mishima.
Barakei / Killed by Roses.

Tokyo: Shueisha, 1963. First Edition. Folio. 43 black and white photographs, 4 color illustrations on vellum, 2 gatefolds. Number 91 of 1500 press-numbered copies, SIGNED by Hosoe and Mishima, and additionally INSCRIBED in silver marker by Hosoe to a collector. Arguably the most famous Japanese photobook of the 20th century. Writer Yukio Mishima is the model for Hosoe's lavish surreal production; his collaboration in the project pushed Hosoe's artistic talents to the brink, creating a final document that transcends the inherent limitations of book arts. (Parr / Badger, v1, 280-281; Roth 164-165; Open Book 194-195; Auer 422).

3 Photo Magazines that Produced Photobooks

Shomei Tomatsu
Nippon
Photographs: Shomei Tomatsu
Publisher: Shaken
200 pages
Pictures: 150
Year: 1967

Comments: Original silver cloth with title debossed on hardcover with acetate dust jacket, 227 x 195 mm. First edition, 1967. Monotone Gravure printing. Very scarce and collectible copy!
A retrospective book, Nippon, published in 1967, is full of dramatic, often contradictory-seeming, images of landscapes, holy men, traditional actors and half-hidden artefacts. It is also a major assessment of Japanese postwar national identity. It was the first publication of Tomasu's own publishing company Shaken. Most of the photos assembled in this volume were shot on assignment in various parts of the country between 1955 and 1967.

4 Compendium

5 Self-Publishing

ANOTHER COUNTRY IN NEW YORK ：Airplene (reprint)

Daido MORIYAMA
These books is a new reprinted facsimile edition of Daido Moriyama's famous self-published Xeroxed publication Another Country in New York from 1974.

Book Size 315 x 215 mm
Pages 90 pages
Printing silkscreen softcover
Publication Date 2013
Publisher Akio Nagasawa Publishing