Publisher/写真評論社

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Embrace (Signed, With OBI) is a photobook by Japan's leading photographer, Eikoh Hosoe. Through collaborations with artists such as his first collaboration with Hijikata Tatsumi, his first photobook, Man and Woman, and his work with writer Yukio Mishima, Rose Punishment, Eikoh Hosoe has pursued the issues of "life" and "sexuality" hidden deep within humanity, and has devoted himself to free and experimental photographic expression. His conceptual style and works incorporating Japanese elements are said to be one of the things that brought postwar Japanese photography to the world. This book is Eikoh Hosoe's masterpiece, published in 1971. The following is an excerpt from the photographer's afterword: "Ten years have passed without me being able to confirm the strength and kindness of 'The Embrace.' 'Ordeal by Roses' is a pact with the unknown, and 'The Sickle' is a pact with memory; in other words, it is a pact with the other within myself. The reason I was unable to fulfill the pact with myself, the 'Embrace,' for ten years, is because I was unable to surpass Bill Brand's (Nude). I believe I have now surpassed it." With obi. Signed by the photographer .