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Kishin Shinoyama A Fine Day Heibon-sha, Tokyo, 1975. First Edition. Hardbound black morocco-patterned
boards. Quarto. Photographically illustrated
throughout in black and white and color. Gray endpapers; covers
stamped in gilt; original acetate dust-jacket with Japanese text.
Very Fine condition with only the slightest wrinkling to the original
vinyl dust jacket and very minimal shelf wear.
Hiroshi Sugimoto Theaters
First edition of this book of color photographs depicting notable
events in Japan in 1974. A fascinating early book by Kishin
Shinoyama, who has become one of Japan’s best-known commercial
photographers. Shinoyama’s book consists of 23 photographic
sequences of around 10 photographs each. They range
from studio portraits of Japanese women to landscapes in which
the weather features prominently, to images of such figures as
Richard Nixon. Though at times the sequences can be baffling,
a great sense of the 1974 zeitgeist begins to form as the various
moods coalesce and vacillate throughout the book, engaging
and almost hypnotizing the reader with visual poetry.
1000
Sonnabend Sundell Editions, New York, 2000. First Edition.
Squarish Quarto. Hard bound in glow in the dark boards with
silver slipcase. Very rare in As New condition.
From the publisher: “This book is the first-ever [major] collection
of Hiroshi Sugimoto’s ‘Theater’ photographs. To create each
image, Sugimoto would take a long-exposure photograph of a
cinema screen for the entire duration of a movie, resulting in a
blank white screen. ‘Different movies give different brightnesses,’
he said. ‘If it’s an optimistic story, I usually end up with a
bright screen; if it’s a sad story, it’s a dark screen. Occult movie?
Very dark.’ The project was partly the result of wanting to make
a simple form visible: ‘The simplest forms have authority, like a
blank white light. And how do you photograph that? You need a
framework to make it visible. But this is not simply white light; it is
the result of too much information.’”
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