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I\'m Jim Camp, the guy behind the synaesthesia press. I\'m a letterpress printer, a publisher of limited-edition books and broadsides, and a lifelong book collector. I\'ve been at this for close to 40 years, and most of what I\'m offering here has lived on my shelves for decades. Now it\'s time for these books to move on to new homes. When one finds its way to your shelf, it\'ll arrive quickly, securely packed, and with no extra fees for shipping or handling. Oh, and don\'t be afraid to make an offer!Offering: Araki, Nobuyoshi. Tokyo Nostalgia. Tokyo: Heibonsha, 1999. First edition.Very Good in photographically illustrated boards, housed in the original publisher’s gray slipcase. Boards show moderate rubbing, edge wear and some toning/soiling, particularly along the spine and extremities; corners lightly bumped. Slipcase shows light shelf wear. Binding sound and interior clean. A very presentable copy of a book that tends to show wear.Nobuyoshi Araki has photographed Tokyo obsessively for decades, turning the city into something between autobiography, diary and love affair. Tokyo Nostalgia is Araki looking at his city through memory: faces, streets, lovers, anonymous corners, buildings and fleeting encounters accumulate into a Tokyo that is less a document of a place than a record of what it feels like to have lived there. The photographs have the looseness and immediacy that make Araki’s books so compelling—the sense that photography and everyday life have become virtually indistinguishable.Published by Heibonsha in 1999, Tokyo Nostalgia is particularly interesting for collectors who know Araki primarily through his more notorious erotic work. Sex may have made him famous in the West, but Tokyo is arguably the great continuing subject of his career. Here the city itself becomes intimate: portraits sit beside streetscapes, chance encounters beside fragments of urban landscape. The result is unmistakably Araki, but quieter, more reflective and deeply personal. This copy retains the original publisher’s slipcase.
A substantial and beautifully made Araki book—and a terrific way into the Tokyo that sits at the center of his entire photographic life.
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