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ONDINE, published by Genkosha in December, 1963. 34.5 x 27cm, only 300 copies published. Original price: ¥3,000. Current price: over $2,500 USD.
A collaboration between Akira Uno (painter, credited on the book as “illustrator”), the photographer Eikoh Hosoe, Iwao Miyanaga (credited as “AD ・Designer”), copywriter (so credited) Junko Muneuchi, and the actress Kyoko Enami who was the model.
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Daido Moriyama and Eikoh Hosoe in the latter’s studio, 1973.
FromBlack Sun: The Eyes of Four, by Mark Holborn:
When [Daido Moriyama] arrived at the offices of Vivo [in the early 60s], [Shomei] Tomatsu explained that he was too late, Vivo was over. However, [Eikoh] Hosoe responded intuitively to the young Moriyama and offered him work as his assistant. Hosoe, another superb craftsman, became his teacher. Moriyama often stayed the night at the old Vivo offices, which Tomatsu and Hosoe maintained. Occasionally he would stealthily examine Tomatsu’s files of contact sheets and become so excited he couldn’t sleep.
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From left to right: Hajime Sawatari, Daido Moriyama, Eikoh Hosoe, and Tenmei Kanoh. January, 2012.
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Previously I had posted an interview I did with Mariko Takeuchi on Japanese photography, this time I am posting an interview the Berlin publisher Roland Angst did with me on the Japanese photographer Issei Suda for the first Western monograph in the artist. Suda is slowly becoming more popular in the West((At GALERIE | PRISKA PASQUER we introduced Issei Suda’s work with two solo exhibitions…
Ba ra kei: Ordeal by Roses(1963) Eikō Hosoe & Yukio Mishima
