Hiroshima Now.
Tokyo: Shinya Soshosha, 1970. First Edition. Square quarto. Essay in English by Tadanori Yokoo; "comment" by Hideo Nakai. Black and white images of late-sixties Hiroshima, mostly dispassionate street scenes and snippets of daily life, with a few medical zingers interspersed throughout. Sometimes photobooks with ostensibly banal shots can appear painfully artistic (the Dusseldorf photographers come to mind), but in this book the spare image of a rainy Hiroshima street, or a solitary man at a ramen counter, has a perverse, almost hypnotic power. Boards and top page edges lightly foxed, else close to near fine in a near fine jacket with the instantly recognizable photograph of a plane's landing gear with a gray Hiroshima spread out in the distance.
Item #24568
Price: $750.00