We are proud that our book has won the
«Author Book Award» at the photography festival
«Les rencontres d'Arles Photographie 2010».
Yutaka Takanashi, Photography 1965–74
On May 1, 2010 will be published the third volume in our series of bibliophile photo books, which are limited to editions of 500: Yutaka Takanashi, Photography 1965–74. It is the first major monograph by this pioneering Japanese photographer to be published in the West.
Yutaka Takanashi belonged to the small group of photographers who launched the magazine Provoke in 1968/69. The magazine had considerable influence on Japanese photography of that period. He was one of the founding members of this group along with the photographer Takuma Nakahira, the critic and photographer Kôji Taki, and the theorist Takahiko Okada. Daidô Moriyama joined the group during the production of the second issue.
As a member of the small Provoke collective, Takanashi was able to find a new theoretical approach and its visual language. The influence of this group and of the magazine on the photographic scene in Japan was immense. Nobuyoshi Araki described Provoke in retrospect as the trigger of an explosion in Japanese photography. In the following years the Provoke photographers produced major works in terms of photographic history, whereby Yutaka Takanashi defined the high point as well as the end of this era with the publication of his first book, Toshi-e (Towards the City), in 1974.
This two-part book set new standards in terms of design, materials and craftsmanship. In a compartment behind the larger volume, Toshi-e, one finds an earlier series in the smaller format volume, Tôkyô-jin; it seems to have provided the basis for the larger book. The smaller volume is designed to look like a printed notebook on simple paper. This combination is indicative of Takanashi's non-dogmatic treatment of the different visual styles and approaches of the 1960s. While he shows the real Tôkyô on the verge of becoming a modern urban society in Tôkyô-jin and names the concrete location at which each of the photographs was taken, Toshi-e contains a view of an urban landscape that has no defined location.
Our book, Yutaka Takanashi, Photography 1965–74, presents a representative cross-section of these two pioneering photographic series in 35 full-page illustrations and 6 large format plates. An extensive biography, list of exhibitions and a bibliography round off our newest publication. The book will be officially presented on May 7 in conjunction with an exhibition of vintage prints at the Galerie Priska Pasquer and Schaden.com in Cologne.
The limited edition of 500 will be published in three different versions.
- Editions numbered 1 – 30: include a gelatin-silver print of the photograph "untitled" from Toshi-e (double page 19–20), personally printed and signed by the artist, in the same format as the book. The book along with a separate portfolio containing the print, both bound in linen, are enclosed in a printed linen slipcase.
- Editions number 1-10 will be sold for EUR 1,200.00 SOLD OUT
- Editions number 11 – 20 for EUR 1,500.00
- Editions number 21 – 30 for EUR 1,800.00.
- Editions number 30 – 130 are signed by the artist and will be sold for EUR 158.00.
- Editions number 131 – 500 will be sold for EUR 128.00 – and are available with one of two linen covers printed with alternative motifs.
- Each of the books is stamped with the artist's personal seal.
- 116 Pages
- Format 245 x 325 mm
- ISBN 978-3-9812537-2-6
Yutaka Takanashi: «untitled», from Toshi-e, gelatin-silver print
Edition: 30
Paper Format: 302 x 240 mm
Image Format: 252 x 210 mm
Subsequent to the first publication «City Stills» (published in 1999 by Prestel) and its great monograph «Light Lines» (published in 2008 as a co-production by the Steidl publishing house and the Musée de l’Élysée), AutoMagic is a book dedicated exclusively to Metzker’s photography of the automobile.
- The second volume in our series of bibliophilic photography books
- Edition of 500, signed
- Embossed cloth binding with dust jacket
- 120 pages
- 79 plates in tritone
- German/English
- Retail price € 128.00
- ISBN 978-3-9812537-1-9
- A special edition of 15 contains a silver gelatine print handmade and signed by the artist in the format of the book; price € 1,950.00.
Ray Metzker: Philadelphia, 1964
print handmade and
signed by the artist
Edition: 15
Dimensions: 225 x 152 mm
Frauke Eigen «SHOKU»
- 224 pages in Japanese binding
- 24 full-page plates in dutone
- Embossed cloth binding
- Format 325 x 305 mm
- 500 numbered copies
- Trilingual text (German/English/Japanese) by Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schneider
- Retail price € 98.00
- ISBN 978-3-9812537-0-2
- A special edition of 15 contains a silver gelatine print handmade by the artist in the format of the book; price € 800.00.
Frauke Eigen: Maju, 2008
print handmade and
signed by the artist
Edition: 15
Dimensions: 220 x 220 mm.