Japanese Photobooks of the 1960s

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Nick Eagleton, CD over at The Partners introduced me to this book yesterday. I absolutely loved it.

Starting with Hiroshi Hamaya's "Snow Land" (1956), Japanese Photobooks presents forty photobooks in lavish detail, with reproductions of many of their pages and a plethora of details about them.

During the 1960s and '70s in Japan, the photobook—through a combination of excellence in design, printing, and materials—overtook prints as a popular mode of artistic dissemination. This process has expanded to an extent where any discussion of Japanese photography now has to include the book work. Today, the most famous works—such as Nobuyoshi Araki’s Sentimental Journey and Eikoh Hosoe's Man and Woman—continue to inspire artists internationally.

Select titles by: Nobuyoshi Araki, Ken Domon, Masahisa Fukase, Hiroshi Hamaya, Eikoh Hosoe, Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Miyako Ishiuchi, Kikuji Kawada, Keizo Kitajima, Kineo Kuwabara, Yoichi Midorikawa, Daido Moriyama, Takuma Nakahira, Ikko Narahara, Yasuzo Nojima, Kishin Shinoyama, Shomei Tomatsu, Hiromi Tsuchida, and others.

About

James Théophane

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James Theophane, or Theo, is a dilettante residing in Sydney. When he's not dabbling, he's a Creative Director at Clemenger BBDO.

He has worked with R/GA, Lost Boys, Grey, Modem, Framfab, Wheel, DNA and GT.

He has put a pop-up restaurant atop a neo-classical building in Paris, created a gigantic interactive chandelier that played Christmas carols. Hacked an oil painting and launched a fully interactive round the world yacht.

He has created work for Nokia, Toshiba, Rankin, D&AD, Chelsea FC, Electrolux, Sony, Ericsson, PlayStation, Sega, Channel 4, Oxfam, Canon, Brahma, Marks & Spencer, Wired Magazine and Audi. View all work

He has won a few awards such as One Show, D&AD, Webby, LIA, Campaign, BIMA and Epica.

Sometimes he gets called up for a little bit of jury service too. He's paid his dues with D&AD, IAB Creative Showcase and London International.

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