Publisher/現代思想社

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A photo book "KAMAITACHI (First Edition)" by Eikoh Hosoe, a leading Japanese photographer. Through collaborations with artists, such as the first book "Man and Woman", which is the first collaboration with Tatsumi Hijikata, and "Rose Penalty" with writer Yukio Mishima, "life" and "life" hidden in the depths of human beings. Eikoh Hosoe, who pursued the issue of "sexuality" and made efforts in free and experimental photographic expression. His conceptual style and works that include Japanese elements are said to be one of the things that made postwar Japanese photography known to the world. This book is a photo book published in 1969, and a reprint has been published since 2000, but this is the first edition and the original, and the second collaboration with the dancer Tatsumi Hijikata. "Kamaitachi" is a legendary creature that holds the spirit of Tohoku. Hijikata impersonates the legend and performs vividly in the rural areas of downtown Tokyo and Akita, expressing the ripples caused by encounters with people, the sensuality of the climate, and the orgasm of life and death. An early representative work by Eikoh Hosoe, who portrays the intense aesthetic sense that resides within himself through exceptional visual aesthetics. For the first edition limited gravure printing, luxurious binding of all folding pages. A rare shipping box is also included.