10x10: Japanese Photobooks

I was kindly invited to "suggest 10 postwar Japanese photobooks" as a part of the on-line continuation of the fine event 10x10: Japanese Photobooks in NYC and I tried to comply. Nothing like the used ritual New-Year best-of stuff: here is just a selection of 10 personal all-time favorite photobooks. Click on bookcovers for additional information.

Ikko NARAHARA. Spain / España : Idai Naru Gogo / Grand Tarde (1969) Masao KAGEYAMA. Azumino 1977 (1978) Kinsuke SHIMADA. Oka (1976) Kishin SHINOYAMA. Kinbaku Taizen / Sadistic Play of Bondage (1971) Bon FUJII. Kue Issho (1982) Tatsuo KONDO. Kohoku (1977) Hiroyuki YAMAMOTO. Sonzai no Kizu: Toshi (1990) Takeji IWAMIYA. Sado (1962) Shunji OKURA. Musashino (1997) Masaya NAKAMURA. Ema Nude in Africa (1971)

NARAHARA Ikko. Spain / España : Idai Naru Gogo / Grand Tarde — Fiesta — Vaya Con Dios. Tokyo : Kyuryu-do, 1969.	SHIMADA Kinsuke. Oka (Hokkaido Hills). Tokyo : Asahi-shinbun, Showa 51 (1976).
SHINOYAMA Kishin. Kinbaku Taizen / Sadistic Play of Bondage (Encyclopedia of Bondage). Tokyo : Haga Shoten, 1971.	YAMAMOTO Hiroyuki. Sonzai no Kizu: Toshi. / Moments of Existence: Cities ). Osaka : Yamamoto Hiroyuki, 1990.
FUJII Bon. Kue Issho. Tokushima : Kyoiku Shuppan Center, 1982.	KONDO Tatsuo. Kohoku. Tokyo : Nippon Camera-sha, Showa 52 (1977).
KAGEYAMA Masao. Azumino 1977. Tokyo : Toju-sha, 1978.	ARAKI Nobuyoshi. Erotos. Tokyo : Libroport, 1993.
NAKAMURA Masaya. Ema Nude in Africa. Kami kara Nusunda Atsui Hadaka. Tokyo : Heibon-sha, Showa 46 (1971).	OKURA Shunji. Musashino. Tokyo : Single-Cut-sha, 1997.

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10 Postwar Japanese Photobooks