EIKOH HOSOE
EIKOH HOSOE Embrace . Tokyo: Shashin Hyoronsha, 1971. Tall quarto (358 x 251mm). 59 black and white photographs, many double-page. Complete with leaf of thumbnails and publisher's illustrated leaflet. Original black cloth, spine and sides blocked in white, original colour dust-jacket, original cardboard slipcase, spine with printed label overlapping onto sides, original printed wraparound band. Signed by Hosoe on the endpaper. Original photograph (202 x 253mm), printed later, signed in ink in the margin, and signed and titled in pencil on the verso. FIRST EDITION, A FINE, SIGNED COPY, COMPLETE WITH THE SLIPCASE, WRAPAROUND BAND, LEAF OF THUMBNAILS, AND WITH AN ORIGINAL SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH titled by Hosoe on the verso: 'Embrace #28. 1969'. Hosoe's distinctive nudes, printed in his trademark rich photogravure, and characterized by his 'elegant and precise sense of form' ( The Photobook ). Preface by Yukio Mishima. An exceptional copy. Cf. The Photobook , vol. I, p.278 (for Man and Woman ).
EIKOH HOSOE
EIKOH HOSOE Embrace . Tokyo: Shashin Hyoronsha, 1971. Tall quarto (358 x 251mm). 59 black and white photographs, many double-page. Complete with leaf of thumbnails and publisher's illustrated leaflet. Original black cloth, spine and sides blocked in white, original colour dust-jacket, original cardboard slipcase, spine with printed label overlapping onto sides, original printed wraparound band. Signed by Hosoe on the endpaper. Original photograph (202 x 253mm), printed later, signed in ink in the margin, and signed and titled in pencil on the verso. FIRST EDITION, A FINE, SIGNED COPY, COMPLETE WITH THE SLIPCASE, WRAPAROUND BAND, LEAF OF THUMBNAILS, AND WITH AN ORIGINAL SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH titled by Hosoe on the verso: 'Embrace #28. 1969'. Hosoe's distinctive nudes, printed in his trademark rich photogravure, and characterized by his 'elegant and precise sense of form' ( The Photobook ). Preface by Yukio Mishima. An exceptional copy. Cf. The Photobook , vol. I, p.278 (for Man and Woman ).
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