Tokyoites (Tokyo-Jin) (SIGNED)

Yutaka Takanashi
Tokyoites (Tokyo-Jin) (SIGNED)

Photographs: Yutaka Takanashi

Text: Michel Butor

Publisher: Shoshi Yamada

36 pages

Year: 1983

Price: 520 €

Comments: 2 thin black books in one beige cover with paraffin paper inserted alternately into each pages, which is covered with original boards, and 2 original paper booklets, all of these are housed in original slipcase with original band (obi), 240 x 260 mm. First edition, 1983. Black & white photographs. Small creases and stains on the slipcase otherwise in very good condition. A small bumped witch doesn't affect the pages. Signed copy, very scarce and collectible !

Tokyo-Jin is Takanashi's first important serie dedicated to the city of Tokyo. On the street or in the subways, the people Takanashi photographed are witnesses to the changes of japanese post war...