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A large photobook featuring medium-format film photographs.

From Shinya :

While it’s been more than twenty years since moving to Tokyo, I’ve never grown tired of how, day by day, the city fluctuates and grows. But on the other hand, it has become hard to see the embodiment of our true humanity - perhaps this loss is a consequence of our unchecked modern urban proliferation.

Years ago, while I was photographing and living among nomads in Tibet I was struck by the way in which those there live and coexist powerfully with the earth. I honed this feeling through making portraits of the people I encountered. Compared with my experiences there I felt that, as photographic subjects, through the convenience of modern life the citizens of Tokyo lacked something that those in Tibet naturally possessed.
But was this really so?

Making an effort to observe Tokyo well, one should be able to discover those living strongly with the same radiance of human nature coexisting within the city. This belief led me to begin a daily attempt to seek out with my camera those who exist and thrive within their natural, yet urban, habitat.

Indeed, ten years have passed and in my eyes the dense sprawl of Tokyo is an ecosystem with magnificent circulation.

One of my favorite photographers from Japan, and a very good book you can find for less than $20 in Japan.

From the net :

Captured during a months stay in the city of Manila, Philippines in August 1983, Jun Abe’s _Manila _is a culmination of his photographed experiences and encounters during his time spent in the country. Bound within the pages of this publication is an array of individuals and instances which string together the wanderings and explorations of Abe from the bustling city streets of Manila into a Medium Security Prison. What is present within the each pageis not only a document of the time and place captured within the images themselves but within the photographs lies a multitude of layers and meaning within each of the frames. This is a narrative which speaks both of the city and its individuals encountered by Abe, presenting an interconnectedness in-between cities and its landscapes, separate through the boundaries of geography yet temporarily connected through the frame of Abe’s images.

This book is a masterpiece and deserves to be in every collector's library.

Prices vary depending on the edition, but if you find it at a good price, don't hesitate!
And check the STEIDL website for a reprint.

From the net :

“The images in Saul Leiter: Early Color, were taken between 1948 and 1960. By using expired Kodachrome film, Leiter experimented with rich hues, developing anomalies and varying techniques, of which the results are evident within this book. There is also a painterly quality to the work, and a resolute composition that sets Leiter’s images apart from photographers such as William Eggleston and Stephen Shore.” (Kyla Woods for Musée Magazine)

Leiter’s sensibility… place him outside the visceral confrontations with urban anxiety associated with photographers such as Robert Frank or William Klein,” wrote Martin Harrison, editor and author of Saul Leiter: Early Color, “Instead, for him, the camera provided an alternate way of seeing, of framing events and interpreting reality. He sought out moments of quiet humanity in the Manhattan maelstrom, forging a unique urban pastoral from the most unlikely of circumstances.”

This is a masterpiece and the whole trilogy is a masterpiece!

From the internet :

"Wonderland: A Fairy Tale of the Soviet Monolith (2020, Signed)" by Jason Eskenazi (1960-), one of the leading photographers of contemporary America. Born in Queens, New York, he majored in psychology and American literature at university. After graduating, I worked in a darkroom and interned at a photo agency, and at the age of 29, I was inspired by the collapse of the Berlin Wall and moved to Europe. and. In the 90's, as a journalist, I continued traveling and interviewing for nearly 10 years in order to follow the collapse of the Soviet Union and the whereabouts of the former Soviet Union. It is a masterpiece of a documentary that was published in 2008 and has been awarded numerous awards such as "Best Photography Book 2008". After 12 years, a new edition with a larger edition has been published. It is one of the best masterpieces to describe the collapse of the real fairy tale of communism and the signpost for a new future created by young people.

Great photobook with a lovely paper and a good smell!
(The smell is important)

From internet :

Reflection and Refraction is a retrospective collection of self-portraits and floral works shot by the renowned Daido Moriyama over the course of four decades; in other words, a compilation of Auto-portrait and Sunflower, two titles previously published by MMM in 2010 and 2011 respectively.

Having witnessed the startling transformation of postwar Japan, Moriyama possesses a dark, intense eroticism and an appreciation for the tragic. His black-and-white photographs form a cumulative record – in the language of the everyday – of Japan’s often contradictory social fabric.

Underpinned by his forceful points of view, Moriyama’s extraordinary ‘street snap’ style brings a loose and casual aesthetic to scenes that would otherwise appear uninteresting, occupying a unique space between the objective and the subjective, the illusory and the real.

From the publisher :

“Journey to the Tobacco Shop on the Corner” collects photographies taken by Issei Suda of the surrounding few hundred of a local hospital he was confined to due to a chronicle disease (the photos were serialised in “Camera Mainichi” magazine in 1980). This book is great example of the underlying core philosophy that makes Suda’s photography stand out from his peers: “Even reaching the tobacco shop a hundred meters down the road becomes a journey.”

Good job Stanley/Barker

From her website :

The Golden City is a kaleidoscopic vision of San Francisco in the 1980s, with several images from later decades. The sequencing travels from the city’s outskirts, past industrial landscapes and crumbling infrastructure, into the heart of the city, grappling with issues of economic inequality and climate change, descending into a vibrant nightlife offering a temporary escape.
Stanley/Barker published The Golden City in 2021.

I just saw the current prices online…it's crazy

From the editor :

This book intends to correct the somewhat blurred image of Ernst Haas’s color photography which, due to its extraordinary vibrancy, was much in demand by the illustrated press of its time. Haas’s color work, published in the most influential magazines and various books in Europe and America, earned him worldwide fame, but at the same time has often been derided by critics and curators as too easily accessible and not sufficiently “serious.” (…) Haas never printed these pictures in his lifetime, let alone exhibit them. With their striking inventiveness and complexity, they firmly stand their ground in the face of the work of Haas’s fellow photographers. Due to its enormous popularity, Steidl is now offering Color Correction in a new, unaltered edition. 

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