Publications

Cosmo Eggs (English version)

Motoyuki Shitamichi, Taro Yasuno, Toshiaki Ishikura, Fuminori Nousaku

2019

The official catalogue for the “Cosmo-Eggs” exhibition at Japanese Pavilion on occasion of the 58th Venice Biennale Art Exhibition. Designed by Yoshihisa Tanaka (Tokyo Art Book Fair, Takeo Paper Show), the book provides an overview of the exhibiti...
283 × 240 mm / 158 pages / Softcover (Comb biding) / 2019 / English, Japanese / ISBN: 978-4-908526-27-5

¥3,780 (Shipping from Japan)

Inner Self Special Edition

Anne-Sophie GUILLET

2019

The special limited edition (50 copies) version consists of the standard edition photobook and a original gelatin siliver print. Numbered and Signed, select from 2 images, limited to 25 copies each. The print is in a premier archival envelop.
195 x 160 mm / 215 x 180 mm / 307 × 205 mm / 80 pages, 33 images / Hardcover / 2019 / English, French

¥19,440 (Shipping from Japan)

Inner Self

Anne-Sophie GUILLET

2019

Anne-Sophie Guillet has created the series Inner Self of thirty-four photographs of androgynous-looking young people between 2013 to 2018. Most often chance encounters in her daily routine, these young people attracted Guillet’s attention with the...
307 × 205 mm / 80 pages, 33 images / Hardcover / 2019 / English, French

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Zeen

Scheltens & Abbenes

2019

Few photographers capture the wonder of what surrounds us in everyday life with such a sense of wonder as the Dutch duo Scheltens & Abbenes (@scheltensabbenes). In “Zeen,” published to accommodate the eponymous exhibition at the Foam Photograp...
170 x 225 mm / 426 pages / Softcover / 2019 / English,Japanese / ISBN: 978-4-908526-23-7

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An eventual saturation

Toshiya MURAKOSHI

2019

Toshiya Murakoshi has been photographing his home of Fukushima since 2006. The Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011 transformed the landscape forever, into a place of its own. An eventual saturation continues Murakoshi’s previous series A Gradual T...
254 x 182 mm / 96 pages / Softcover / 2018 / Japanese, English / ISBN: 978-4-908526-24-4

¥3,456 (Shipping from Japan)
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One Life Special Edition

Ahn Jun

2018

The special limited edition (100 copies) version consists of a cloth-covered box, the standard edition photobook, and an original print. The print is mounted in a clothed slipcase which resembles the photobook’s cover design. The special edition b...
210 x 140 mm / 250 x 200 mm / 250 x 326 mm / 128 pages / Hardcover / 2018 / English / 345 × 264 × 36 mm / 100

¥43,200 (Shipping from Japan)

One Life

Ahn Jun

2018

“One Life” is the latest publication by Seoul-based Korean artist Ahn Jun, consisting of 88 photographs taken between 2013 and 2018 in Seoul, Japan, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, Ireland and other regions of the world. In the photographs, Ahn ...
250 x 326 mm / 128 pages / Hardcover / 2018 / English / ISBN: 978-4-908526-22-0

¥7,560 (Shipping from Japan)
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Containers in Tokyo Special Edition

Yusuke INOUE

2018

Original Print + Original Frame + Photobook The special edition of Yusuke Inoue’s “Containers in Tokyo” was created and hand-made by the artist himself. It consists of a painted wooden frame and a print from the series. The photobook itself, also ...
265 × 177 mm / 285 × 198 × 50 mm / 167 x 245 mm / 80 pages / Softcover, soft case / 2018 / English and Japanese / 300 × 220 × 53 mm

¥32,400 (Shipping from Japan)

Containers in Tokyo

Yusuke INOUE

2018

Rectangular shapes on each and every page. The main characters of this book are shipping containers. These large, metal boxes are indispensable for the modern logistics system to function. Thanks to them, it became possible to move large quantitie...
167 x 245 mm / 80 pages / Softcover, soft case / 2018 / English and Japanese / ISBN: 978-4-908526-21-3

¥3,672 (Shipping from Japan)
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Chihei 11

Shunji DODO, Jun ABE, Shogo YAMADA, Yasuko NOGUCHI, Kosato MATSUOKA, Maya AKASHIKA, Masashi URASHIBA

2018

Chihei is a photography dojinshi (a type of Japanese zine) first published in April 1972 that saw a total number of ten issues published in its initial five year lifespan. The magazine was edited and published by Shunji Dodo, then a teacher at the...
182 x 262 mm / 64 pages / Softcover / 2018 / English and Japanese / ISBN: 978-4-908526-20-6 

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Roadside Lights Special Edition Box

Eiji OHASHI

2018

A special box set of Eiji Ohashi’s series of vending machines all over Japan, which has won him the Special Photographer Award at the 34th Higashikawa Awards. This limited edition box features 22 loose high-quality offset prints from Ohashi’s 2017...
300 x 255 mm / 322×246×H22mm / 22 pages / Special Box / 2018 / English / Limited Edition: 100

¥21,600 (Shipping from Japan)
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Overflow

Takuma NAKAHIRA

2018

Takuma Nakahira, one of the most legendary photographers of post-war Japan and a life-long rival of Daido Moriyama. Overflow is the first photobook in which his installation work comes alive in entirety and detail since its unveiling in 1974. Taku...
364 x 257 mm / 64 pages / Softcover / 2018 / English and Japanese / ISBN: 978-4-908526-19-0 

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Being there

Eiji OHASHI

2017

After “Roadside Lights”, Eiji Ohashi’s next photographic exploration of the ubiquitous vending machines and the role they play in Japanese society. “After snowfall, especially when driving in the north during snowstorms, sometimes the light from t...
225 x 297 mm / 88 pages, 60 images / Hardcover / 2017 / English, Japanese / ISBN: 978-4-908526-18-3

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A gradual thaw

Toshiya MURAKOSHI

2017

The quiet, powerful landscape photography comprising Toshiya Murakoshi’s series “A Gradual Thaw” were taken in his home prefecture of Fukushima between the years 2011 and 2015. With the project, Murakoshi looks for traces of his own memories. “If ...
260 x 368 mm / 34 pages, 14 images / Hardcover, lining board binding / 2017 / English, Japanese / ISBN: 978-4-908526-15-2

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What is the Distance to the Moon?

Toshiya MURAKOSHI

2017

“When the sun went down, the rain that had been falling since early evening stopped. Apart from my camera in the little plastic bag, my entire body was soaked. I don’t know if it was for this reason but every lodging that night had denied my reque...
243 x 308 mm / 64 pages, 34 images / Softcover / 2017 / English, Japanese / ISBN: 978-4-908526-17-6

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Thirteen Orphans

Tsutomu YAMAGATA

2017

A beautiful re-release of Tsutomu Yamagata’s portrait series of the unique individuals he met around Ueno Park’s Shinobazu Pond. “There is something about the people I met at the park that peculiarly attracts me, something more than just how they ...
200 x 190 mm / 56 pages, 43 images / Softcover / 2017 / Japanese, English / Limited Edition: 380 / ISBN: 978-4-908526-16-9

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Water Mirror

Risaku SUZUKI

2017

“Water Mirror”, published on occasion of the 4th Daikanyama Photo Fair, is the latest photobook by Risaku Suzuki. After Suzuki’s previous works were devoted to studies of Southern France’s Mt. St. Victoire or the atelier of Paul Cezanne, to images...
260 x 330 mm / 112 pages, 46 images / Hardcover / 2017 / English, Japanese / ISBN: 978-4-908526-13-8

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Theater of Love

Nobuyoshi ARAKI

2017

The series consists of around 100 photographs taken around the year 1965, when Araki was working at advertising giant Dentsu. The photos, first shown at an exhibition at Taka Ishii Gallery in February 2011, are presented as a postcard-sized book, ...
180 x 133 mm / 242 pages, 119 images / Case / 2017 / Japanese / Limited Edition: 1000

¥6,912 (Shipping from Japan)
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Chai Wan Fire Station

CHAN Dick

2017

“One day, working in my office, I discovered that the window in my bathroom was overlooking the Chai Wan firestation. The view had much more to offer than I had originally imagined.” These humble words describe the beginning of a critically acclai...
255 x 255 mm / 82 pages, 39 images / Softcover / 2017 / English, Chinese

¥5,616 (Shipping from Japan)
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Luigi Ghirri

Luigi GHIRRI

2017

This catalogue accompanies Luigi Ghirri’s solo exhibition “Works from the 1970s” at Taka Ishii Gallery and is centered around photographs created during the 1970s, arguably Ghirri’s most important creative period. By redefining photography as a co...
272 x 225 mm / 62 pages, 29 images / Softcover / 2017 / Japanese, English

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