Kenmochi, Mayaku. Shobo 1963 DROGEN DRUGS JAPAN

Kenmochi, Kazuo.
Mayaku. Foto dkyumento. (Narcotics: Photographic Document). Tokyo, Inoue
Shobo (1963). 4° (26,5 x 19,2 cm.). 157, (2) S. mit teils ganzs. Abb.
OPbd. mit illustr. OU. in Orig.-Versandkarton.

Heiting/Kaneko 370, 280. Parr/Badger
III, 82. – Erste Ausgabe der ersten Fotodokumentation zum Drogenkonsum
in Japan. – 1972 und 1973 erschienen aktuellisierte Neuausgaben. – „One
of the most remarkable aspects of Kazuo Kenmochi’: Narcotic Photographic
Document is the date of publication 1963. The book came out at a time
when the world at large was only gradually becoming aware of the
problems of narcotics, and the issue was not yet the headine news that
it would become only a few short years later. At that time, drugs were
still something wayward that people such as jazz musicians did – that
is, drug-taking was seen by the mainstream as being confined largely to
the ‚other‘. Kenmochi blasts through all this and identifies drug
addiction as a serious and growing problem in a classic of investigative
photojournalism. The book Iooks at every aspect of drugs, from their
production their distribution, the mechanics of the business and the
reaction of the law. His photographs are accompanied by a comprehensive
text that contains statistical diagrams and objective sociological
analysis. The text is the sober part of the work, somewhat at odds with
the best of Kenmochi’s photographs, which are both expressive and
intimate, with something of conspiratorial air of Larry Clark“
(Parr/Badger). – Schutzumschlag am Kapital etwas berieben und mit kl.
Löchlein am hinteren Gelenk, Deckelschild des Versandkartons etwas
berieben, sehr gutes Exemplar.