Hosoe, Eikoh. Kamaitachi 1969 SIGNED + ORIG.-PHOTOGRAPH + ORIG.-SHIPPING BOX

Hosoe, Eikoh. Kamaitachi. (Dance Tatsumi Hijikata. Preface Shuzo Takigushi. Poem Toyoichiro Miyoshi. Design Ikko Tanaka). Tokyo, Gendai Shicho Sha (1969). Folio (38 x 31 cm.). [3] Bl., 34 Tafeln, [2] Bl., alle ausfaltbar u. 1 Orig.-Photographie (Silbergelatine, 24,5 x 16 cm.) auf dem Trägerkarton und verso signiert und mit Stempel des Fotografen, dat. 1971. Illustr. OLn. mit Blau bedrucktem Klarsichtschutzumschlag in Orig.-Pappschuber u. Orig.-Versandkarton mit Deckelschild.

Auer 497. Heiting/Kaneko 394 f., 306. Parr/Badger I, 284. The Open Book 248. – Erste Ausgabe. – Eines von 1000 num. Exemplaren. – Von E. Hosoe signiert und mit rotem Signaturstempel T. Miyoshi und mit beil. Orig.-signiertem Silbergelatine Abzug. Plate # 32 (1965, „drei Generationen“). – „Many Japanese photobooks are designed around the ritual of removing them from their slipcases or covers and opening their pages. The second book collaboration between Hosoe and the dancer Tatsumi Hijikata makes a complex ceremony even of viewing each photograph. Every picture page is a blue gatefold that must be carefully unfolded before the image can be viewed. Looking at this book cannot be done in a hurry. Kameitachi derives from a journey that Hosoe made to the far north of Japan’s main island after returning home from a European trip in 1964. He travelled with Hijikata to the Tohoku region. Both had been born there“ (Parr/Badger). – “Hijikata was dissatisfied with the Japanese modern dance scene, feeling that it was merely a copy of the work being done in the West. He wanted to find a form of expression that was purely Japanese, and one that allowed the body to ‘speak’ for itself, thru [sic!] unconscious improvised movement. His first experiments were called Ankoku Butoh, or the Dance of Darkness. This darkness referred to the area of what was unknown to man, either within himself or in his surroundings. His butoh sought to tap the long-dormant genetic forces that lay hidden in the shrinking consciousness of modern man” (Eikoh Hosoe). – Versandkarton mit geringf. Gebrauchsspuren, 2 Tafeln im rechten Rand mit leichten Knickspuren, sonst tadellos.