One (Signed).
Tokyo: Tsukiji Shokan Publishing Co., 1970. First Edition. Thick quarto. SIGNED by Ohara to first page, with his trademark signature-line extending over the textblock edge, and across the final two pages of portraits. A fully-illustrated collection of 500 black-and-white portraits captured on the streets of New York, where the Japanese-born photographer was an apprentice to Richard Avedon and Hiro. Printing the portraits with the same tonal quality, and thus blurring differences in skin color, "Ohara has taken the utopian step of using the camera to turn humankind into one big melting pot, his serial photographs making almost ritual atonement for the sin of racism" (Parr / Badger, v1, 291). Just about fine in photo-illustrated wrappers in an equally fine price-clipped jacket.
Item #24599
Price: $3,500.00