A Sentimental Journey (First edition)

Nobuyoshi Araki
A Sentimental Journey (First edition)

Photographs: Nobuyoshi Araki

Publisher: Privately published

108 pages

Pictures: 108

Year: 1971

Price: 5500 €

Comments: Stapled softcover, 24 x 24cm, b&w photographs. Rare Original edition limited of 1000 copies with the rare "green" paper laid in. Light soiling and spotting to covers otherwise in very good condition. Extremely rare with the "green paper". More pictures on demand.

Araki’s most influential book, one of the most important photobooks of the twentieth century. Araki made these intensely personal photographs on his honeymoon. Initially he had intended for Sentimental Journey to contain no text, but after printing and on the request of a bookseller he wrote an introduction in which he rejects the falseness and insincerity of fashion photography, and compares his own work to the popular post-war literary form of the ‘I’ novel.