INAKOSHI, Koichi

Maybe, maybe

Tokyo: Kyuryudo, 1971. First Edition. Square quarto. INSCRIBED by the photographer in Japanese and dated on the day following publication. With an odd essay done in the form of two-person play by Key Hasegawa, translated to English by David Goodman. A collection of 44 moody black and white images shot in America, many in New York. The pictures have been printed in a dark gravure, with some shots bordering on conceptual, while others capture the bleak reality of American pessimism, especially as it relates to the Vietnam war. Reminiscent of the vein of Japanese photography popularized by Shigeo Gocho and Kiyoshi Suzuki, but with the lend turned outside Japan. A few tiny flecks of foxing, still easily a fine copy in fine jacket with two very tiny stains at the spine; housed in the plain white slipcase (lightly soiled and scuffed) with the author and title printed on the spine.