Kenji Ishiguro, Tadanori Yokoo. Hiroshima Now. Shinya Soshosha, Tokyo, 1970.

Price: US$585.13 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 4to, ca 120pp. Printed wraps as issued. Numerous Black & White plates. Text in Japanese and English. Wear and a couple of closed tears to dustwrapper and foxing to boards and endpapers. Beautiful and minimal work. ‘… it seems to me that his Hiroshima does not simply relate to us a story of atomized Hiroshima but some sense of terror far apart from Hiroshima itself. Mr. Ishiguro did not just take pictures of Hiroshima as it was razed by an atomic bomb but described for us a more primitive type of fear we have in our innermost heart… His Hiroshima tells me that all pictures must begin with Hiroshima and end with it… Hiroshima Now reveals our remembrance of objects whose shadows are the shadow of the bomb. This remembrance is the eternal scar upon our Japanese mind.’ - Tadanori Yokoo.

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ISHIGURO, Kenji and Tadanori Yokoo. Hiroshima Now. Tokyo: Shinya Soshosha, 1970.

Price: US$850.00 + shipping

Description: First Edition. Square quarto. Essay in English by Tadanori Yokoo. "Comment" by Hideo Nakai. Black and white images of latesixties Hiroshima, mostly dispassionate street scenes and snippets of daily life, with a few medical zingers interspersed throughout. Sometimes photobooks with ostensibly banal shots can appear painfully artistic (the Dusseldorf photographers come to mind), but in this book the spare image of a rainy Hiroshima street, or a solitary man at a ramen counter, has a perverse, almost hypnotic power. Boards and top page edges lightly foxed, else close to near fine in a in a near fine jacket with the instantly recognizable photograph a plane's landing gear with a gray Hiroshima spread out in the distance.

Seller: Harper's Books, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.