Chizu / The Map (Signed)
Kikuji Kawada
Chizu / The Map (Signed)
Photographs: Kikuji Kawada
Text: Kenzaburo Oe
Publisher: Bijutsu Shuppansha
98 pages
Year: 1965
Comments: Hardcover, in a slipcase and a box, 225 x 150 mm. First and true edition, 1965. Extremely scarce copy and one of the most collectible japanese photobooks. Included in The Japanese Photobooks by Kaneko & Vartanian ; The Photobook by Parr & Badger, vol.1. Very good condition (small wears to case) in a very good slipcase. Signed and dedication by the brillant designer Kohei Sugiura!
First published on August 6, 1965, the 20th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima - The Map ("Chizu") is one of the most important photobooks ever. It has appeared in Roth's Book of 101 Books, Parr & Badger The Photobook : A History, Vol I and the Photobooks of the 1960s and 1970s by Ivan Vartanian and Ryuichi Kaneko as well.
"No photobook has been more successful in combining graphic design with complex photographic narrative. [as its] various layers inside [are] peeled away like archeological strata, the whole process of viewing the book becomes one of uncovering and contemplating the ramifications of recent Japanese history -- especially the country's tangled relationship with the United States. Kawada's photographs are a masterly amalgam of abstraction and realism, of the specific and the ineffable, woven into a tapestry that makes the act of reading them a process of re-creation in itself. In the central metaphor of the map, in the idea of the map as a series of interlocking trace marks, Kawada has conjured a brilliant simile for the photograph itself: scientific record, memory trace, cultural repository, puzzle and guide."--Parr & Badger
more books by Kikuji Kawada
-
Chizu / The Map (Signed)
by Kikuji Kawada
sold -
Chizu / The Map (Signed)
by Kikuji Kawada
sold -
Chizu / The Map (Signed and stamped)
by Kikuji Kawada
sold -
The Globe Theater (SIGNED)
by Kikuji Kawada
sold -
Remote Past a Memoir : 1951-1966
by Kikuji Kawada
sold -
Vortex (SIGNED)
by Kikuji Kawada
sold
more books tagged »parr & badger« | >> see all
-
Go (NUMBERED AND SIGNED)
by Bruce Gilden
sold -
Z.z.(t) vol 1 & 2
by Dirk Braeckman
sold -
Perspective of nudes
by Bill Brandt
sold -
Madrid
by Collective
sold -
The Heath (SIGNED)
by Andy Sewell
sold -
"Night Trick" on the Norfolk and Western Railway
by Winston Link
sold
more books tagged »design« | >> see all
-
Aum (Signed, edt of 50)
by Martì Gasull
Euro 90 -
Snowflakes Dog Man (ONLY 69 COPIES - SIGNED)
by Hajime Kimura
sold -
Uncharted+
by Wang Juyan
sold -
You Haven't Seen Their Faces
by Daniel Mayrit
sold -
Performances
by Bartek Warzecha
Euro 45 -
The Island of Endless Hot Night (With Obi)
by Osamu Nagahama
Euro 2500
more books tagged »japanese« | >> see all
-
Sadistic Play of Bondage
by Kishin Shinoyama
sold -
The Tropics (SIGNED)
by Daido Moriyama
sold -
Moving Away (SIGNED)
by Miyako Ishiuchi
sold -
The Other Side (Signed)
by Masako Miyazaki
Euro 35 -
Shinjuku gunto den 66/73
by Katsumi Watanabe
Euro 2200 -
Sayonara America
by Katsu Moriguchi
Euro 45
more books tagged »Kaneko & Vartanian« | >> see all
-
Ravens (Karasu) (STILL IN SHRINK WRAP)
by Masahisa Fukase
Euro 150 -
Come up
by Tetsuya Ichimura
sold -
Minamata Disease
by Fumiaki (Shisei) Kuwabara
sold -
Japanese Photography Magazines, 1880s to 1980s
by Collective
Euro 100 -
Ravens (Karasu)
by Masahisa Fukase
sold -
Hiroshima 1965 (BACK IN STOCK)
by Kenji Ishiguro
sold
more books tagged »Sugiura Kohei« | >> see all
-
Portici di Luce - Piazza San Marco (Signed and numbered)
by Ikko Narahara
Euro 800 -
The Lines of My Hand
by Robert Frank
sold
Books from the Virtual Bookshelf josefchladek.com