Publisher/タカ・イシイ

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"Tokyo Blues 1977" is a photobook by leading Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki. This book was published in conjunction with his solo exhibition held at Taka Ishii Gallery Photography/Film in 2013. The opening page features a facsimile of a flyer for Araki's exhibition, labeled "Tokyo Blues," tacked to the wall. The photographs featured in this book are from a 1977 exhibition held at Nikon Salons in Ginza and Shinjuku. After languishing untouched in a warehouse, the vintage prints were unearthed and, 40 years later, re-exhibited. The book is described as a "fictional documentary beginning with a woman from Kyushu whom Araki met at the time" (according to the gallery). Araki, who felt a "blues" in the upbringings and lives of women who had come to Tokyo, presents these women, who appear to have come for various reasons, in the form of a documentary (fictionalized) of these women (these were collected separately in the 1978 photobook "Gekisha 'Actresses'").