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4to. softcover with illustrated dust jacket and belly band, illustrated throughout in black-and-white, 11 x 9 inches, unpaginated, 94 plates with rear envelope containing original color photographic print. ISBN: 9784902199536
A collection of works by Herbie Yamaguchi, one of Japan's leading photographers. Born in Tokyo in 1950, he moved to England after graduating from Tokyo Keizai University in 1973. During that time, Yamaguchi joined the experimental art theater company "Red Buddha," overseen by musician Stomu Yamashta. In the mid-1970s, he joined the British photographers' group "Quality of Life" and began to shoot the rock and punk music scenes while holding photo exhibitions in Britain and France. He was also the only Japanese photographer who lived in a boarding house with Boy George—in the years before he was famous—and photographed Boy George's private life. Yamaguchi, whom Japanese fashion designer Takeo Kikuchi championed, returned to Japan to become active in fashion photography. This… Read More

First edition of facsimile reprint. illustrated in black-and-white and color, black endpapers, softcover with gray printed belly band, 110 pp, 9 × 10 inches, text in Japanese and English by Hajime Kijima and Ruiko Yoshida. ISBN: 978-4861138539.
A facsimile reprint of Yoshida's significant 1974 photobook of the same title.
Ruiko Yoshida, who worked as an announcer for NHK broadcasting in Japan, received a Fulbright scholarship to study broadcast journalism at … Columbia University in New York, where she [majored in] photojournalism. Yoshida, who briefly married a white American school colleague active in the Civil Rights movement, settled in Harlem, the New York City neighborhood just north of Columbia University. Over the next ten years, she recorded the streets of Harlem, her neighbors and her friends … In 1974, Yoshida published Harlem: Black Angels, a softcover photobook that focuses on the children of Harlem. During her time in New York, she befriended another Japanese woman married to a… Read More