KIMURA, Ihei

Impression of Europe

Tokyo: Asahi Shimbun Publishing, 1955. First Edition. Quarto. The precursor to Kimura's Pari, featuring photographs of Europe, with about half the images in color. A terrific book unjustly ignored because of a conventional subject and design. Before Provoke, Kimura and Hiroshi Hamaya were regarded as the most important photographers in Japan. Offsetting to the endpapers, else fine in a bright, near fine jacket foxed a bit at the verso, with the publisher's thin glassine still intact; housed in a folding cardboard slipcase (lightly soiled).