Publisher/写真評論社

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"Embrace (Signed)" is a photo collection by Japan's leading photographer, Eikoh Hosoe. Through collaborations with artists such as his first collaboration with Hijikata Tatsumi, his first photo collection "Man and Woman," and "Ordeal by Roses" with writer Yukio Mishima, Eikoh Hosoe has pursued the issues of "life" and "sexuality" hidden deep within humans, and has devoted himself to free and experimental photographic expression. His conceptual style and works that incorporate 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; they are pacts, so to speak, 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." Signed and presented .