Publications

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2023

Using a large 8x10 camera, Yoshimi Ikemoto has captured a now lost world in photographs: the old owner-led shops in Japan’s San’in region, Ikemoto’s home. In glorious detail, Ikemoto’s photographs have soaked up and preserved the unique flair, atm...
366 × 260 mm / Hardcover / 148 pages / 2023 / English, Japanese / Limited Edition: 700 / ISBN: 978-4-908526-52-7

¥8,800 (Shipping from Japan)

Art for the First Time

Oscar OIWA

2023

Brazilian-Japanese artist Oscar Oiwa presents an updated version of his picture book “Art at First Time”. Originally published in 1995, Oiwa’s book follows an inquisitive ten-year old boy and his pet dog as they explore answers to a simple questio...
303 × 194 mm / 36 pages / Hardcover / 2023 / Japanese / ISBN: 978-4-908526-51-0

¥4,000 (Shipping from Japan)

New Photographic Objects

Daisuke YOKOTA, Hiroshi TAKIZAWA, Nerhol, Teppei SAKO, Takashi MAKINO

2022

This special catalogue, published to commemorate the eponymous exhibition at the Saitama Museum of Art, contains works by all five featured artists as well as a photographic record of the exhibition itself. Just like the exhibition itself, the “Ne...
/ 2022 / ISBN: 978-4-908526-48-0

¥7,700 (Shipping from Japan)

Dream Boat

Shunji DODO, Arata DODO, Takeshi Dodo

2022

Published to commemorate the same-titled exhibition at Canon Gallery S in Tokyo, the book “Dream Boat” comprises photographs by the father-son trio Shunji, Arata and Takeshi Dodo. The title comes from a comparison made by Shunji, the father, who l...
203 × 130 mm / Softcover / 2022 / Japanese / ISBN: 978-4-908526-50-3

¥6,600 (Shipping from Japan)

Bunrakuza (Reprint)

Taikichi Irie

2022

This reproduction of Taikichi Irie’s photobook “Bunraku-za,” produced on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the artist’s death, features a series of photographs taken between 1939 and 1945 – a breakout work that established his career as a ph...
210 × 148 mm / 56 pages / Softcover / 2022 / Japanese / ISBN: 978-4-908526-47-3

¥1,650 (Shipping from Japan)

Unnatural Nature

Kana KUWASAKO

2022

“Unnatural Nature” is Japanese photographer Kana Kuwasako’s debut publication. Shot in forests and mountains in her home of Hokkaido, Kuwasako’s images present a recreation of her own sensations of the photographed locations rather than strictly v...
620 × 420 mm / 13 pages, 12 images / 2021 / Limited Edition: 300 / Japanese, English / ISBN: 978-4-908526-46-6

¥4,400 (Shipping from Japan)

Melting Landscape

Kei KAIHOH

2021

This publication is part of architect Kei Kaihoh’s exhibit at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2021. In the form of a card set, “Melting Landscape” presents 53 sketches with related infos, explanations and ideas written on the back of each card. “...
92 × 60 mm / 53 pages / Card set / 2021 / English / ISBN: 978-4-908526-45-9

¥2,200 (Shipping from Japan)

Life Eternal

Takeshi Dodo

2021

“Life Eternal” – through photographs of the people living in Kawakami village, Dodo Takeshi creates a portrait of an unyielding spirit that connects past and present. Kawakami is a village in Nara Prefecture, located at the headwaters of the Yoshi...
250 × 260 mm / 190 pages / Softcover / 2021 / English, Japanese / ISBN: 978-4-908526-44-2

¥7,700 (Shipping from Japan)

Chapter 4

Rita ACKERMANN, Andro WEKUA

2021

It was in 2002 that Swiss-based Georgian artist Andro Wekua and New York-based Hungarian artist Rita Ackermann were introduced and began a fruitful creative collaboration with each other. Their remote communication, fuelled by mutual experiences o...
390 × 300 mm / 76 pages / Softcover / 2021 / English, Japanese / ISBN: 978-4-908526-42-8

¥7,000 (Shipping from Japan)
€55.00 (Shipping from Netherlands)

A carte album attributed to Shimooka Renjo, album dated 1865-1868

SHIMOOKA Renjo

2021

This publication consists of 144 previously unpublished works by Japanese photography pioneer Shimooka Renjo (1823–1924), bringing back the Japan of the late Edo and early Meiji period in astounding clarity and color. In the first years of the Mei...
335 × 240 mm / 24 pages, 144 images / Softcover / 2021 / Limited Edition: 300 / ISBN: 978-4-910244-07-5

¥8,800 (Shipping from Japan)

Dead End: Jukkenzaka

Yoshitaka TANIGUCHI

2020

About 150 years ago, the Temiya district in Otaru on Japan’s northern-most island of Hokkaido thrived economically and culturally after becoming a vital shipping port for coal and cargo. There is one particular, steep road in the Temiya district k...
283 × 264 mm / 93 pages, 44 images / Hardcover / 2020 / Japanese, English / ISBN: 978-4-908526-39-8

¥4,180 (Shipping from Japan)

Roadside Lights Seasons: Winter

Eiji OHASHI

2020

Eiji Ohashi’s winterly landscapes with vending machines. “Roadside Lights Seasons: Winter” is a follow-up to Eiji Ohashi’s critically acclaimed photographic series of vending machines along roads throughout Japan. The volume focuses exclusively on...
255 × 365 x 16 mm / 57 pages, 44 images / Hardcover, Leporello, Slip Case / 2020 / Japanese, English / ISBN: 978-4-908526-38-1

¥11,000 (Shipping from Japan)
€120.00 (Shipping from Netherlands)

Vortex

Takamoto YAMAUCHI

2020

Takamoto Yamauchi’s latest book “Vortex” was created during several journeys within Japan and overseas and is a dark trip into the depths of the human psyche. Selected from over 30,000 photographs, Yamauchi’s “Vortex” slowly came into being during...
297 × 210 mm / 144 pages / Softcover / 2020 / ISBN: 978-4-908526-33-6

¥4,620 (Shipping from Japan)
€50.00 (Shipping from Netherlands)

White Map on the Silk Road

Arata DODO

2019

The photobook White Map on the Silk Road, published on the occasion of the eponymous November 2019 exhibition at the Irie Taikichi Memorial Museum of Photography Nara City, comprises photographs taken during several of Arata Dodo’s journeys — incl...
201 × 285 mm / 45 pages / Softcover / Japanese, English / 2019 / ISBN: 978-4-908526-32-9

¥3,300 (Shipping from Japan)
€30.00 (Shipping from Netherlands)

Symphony - mushrooms from the forest (Hardcover)

Takashi HOMMA

2019

Shortlisted for "2020 Paris Photo - Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards" Inspired by the Ed Ruscha series Coloured People, Japanese photographer Takashi Homma’s visited forests on three continents to search for radioactive mushrooms. Th...
334 × 265 × H27mm / 296 pages, 139 images / Hardcover / Japanese, English / 2019

¥15,180 (Shipping from Japan)
€140.00 (Shipping from Netherlands)

Symphony - mushrooms from the forest (Softcover)

Takashi HOMMA

2019

Shortlisted for "2020 Paris Photo - Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards" Inspired by the Ed Ruscha series Coloured People, Japanese photographer Takashi Homma’s visited forests on three continents to search for radioactive mushrooms. Th...
328 × 258 × H25 mm / 296 pages, 139 images / Softcover / Japanese, English / 2019 / ISBN: 978-4-908526-34-3

¥7,920 (Shipping from Japan)
€75.00 (Shipping from Netherlands)

A City Aglow

Shunji DODO

2019

In 1983 Shunji Dodo, who up until then focused entirely on Osaka in his photography, was invited by Japan-based American movie maker Byron Black to visit Bangkok together: “Bangkokʼs an interesting city, just like Osaka. Letʼs head over there toge...
225 × 225 × H33 mm / 304 pages / Softcover / Japanese, English / 2019 / ISBN: 978-4-908526-37-4

¥7,700 (Shipping from Japan)
€75.00 (Shipping from Netherlands)

Chihei 12

Shunji DODO, Jun ABE, Shinya ARIMOTO, Arata DODO, Tewan GON, Shogo YAMADA, Yasuko NOGUCHI, Kosato MATSUOKA, Nao MANABE, Masashi URASHIBA

2019

The legendary photo-dojinshi (self-published zine) Chihei, first published between 1972 and 1977, saw a revival in 2018 with issue 11. While Chihei 11 (available from Case Publishing) chose a geographical limitation—the city of Osaka—for its seven...
200 × 297 mm / 64 pages / Softcover / Japanese / 2019

¥3,000 (Shipping from Japan)
€32.00 (Shipping from Netherlands)

Home

Dick LAU

2019

Dick Lau’s Home consists of three series that re-examine the concepts of home and family through portrait photography. In the series "Diminish", for example, Lau photographed families in locations of their choosing. In addition to “prope...
303 × 260mm / 22 pages each, 30 images (10 images each) / Softcover with sleeve case / English and Chinese / 2019 / ISBN: 978-4-908526-30-5

¥4,950 (Shipping from Japan)
€45.00 (Shipping from Netherlands)

Roadside Lights Special Edition Box Vol. II

Eiji OHASHI

2019

The latest photobook in Eiji Ohashi’s series of vending machines in Japan is composed of 24 images, including previously unpublished works from Roadside Lights (2017) and Roadside Lights Special Edition Box (2018). High-quality prints with glossy ...
300x255 mm / 322×246×H22mm / 24 pages / Special Box / 2019

¥27,500 (Shipping from Japan)
€270.00 (Shipping from Netherlands)