{"title":"Japanese Photobooks","description":"\u003ch2\u003eA Distinct Photographic Tradition in Book Form\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJapanese photobooks occupy a specific and well-documented position in the history of photography. The photobook as an object — its sequencing, design, and material form — has been treated with particular seriousness in Japan, producing a body of work that is inseparable from the broader arc of Japanese visual culture. This collection brings together titles from that tradition, selected for their editorial and historical significance within the wider \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\"\u003ePhotography \u0026amp; Photobooks\u003c\/a\u003e catalogue at Lokator100.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eFrom Western Import to Independent Practice\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePhotography arrived in Japan in the 1870s, initially absorbed through direct contact with European and American practitioners. Early Japanese photographers worked largely within Western conventions, but over subsequent decades the medium was reoriented toward local aesthetics, subjects, and concerns. By the early twentieth century, a recognisably Japanese photographic practice had taken shape.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe postwar period marked a decisive shift. In the aftermath of World War II, photographers including Ihei Kimura turned their attention to documentary and photojournalistic work, recording the country's reconstruction and the lives of ordinary people with directness and formal rigour. This commitment to the social document became a lasting strand of Japanese photography.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eCounterculture, Avant-Garde, and the Street\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 1960s and 1970s brought a period of formal and political rupture. Eikoh Hosoe and Shomei Tomatsu, among others, moved away from documentary conventions toward work that was confrontational, formally experimental, and deeply engaged with Japan's postwar condition. Street photography emerged in parallel, concerned with the texture of daily life in rapidly changing cities. Publishers such as \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/sokyusha\"\u003eSokyusha\u003c\/a\u003e played a role in bringing this generation's work into print in significant editions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eEconomic Boom and Its Documents\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 1980s and 1990s saw Japan's urban landscape transform under rapid economic growth, and photographers responded directly to that transformation. Daido Moriyama's fragmented, high-contrast imagery of city margins, Nobuyoshi Araki's obsessive personal and erotic documentation, and Masahisa Fukase's psychologically charged work all emerged from this period. The photobook became an essential vehicle for work that resisted easy institutional framing. \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/akaaka-art-publishing\"\u003eAKAAKA Art Publishing\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/case-publishing\"\u003eCase Publishing\u003c\/a\u003e have continued to publish and republish work from this lineage, as has \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/zen-foto-gallery\"\u003eZen Foto Gallery\u003c\/a\u003e, which remains one of the most active specialist publishers working in this area.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eContemporary Practice\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMore recent Japanese photography has moved across a wide range of registers. Rinko Kawauchi's quietly observational work and Risaku Suzuki's sustained engagement with landscape represent two directions among many. Publishers including \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/tokyo-kirara\"\u003eTokyo Kirara\u003c\/a\u003e have supported this ongoing production, maintaining the photobook as a primary form of publication for Japanese photographers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout This Selection\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTitles in this collection are listed with accurate bibliographic data and condition notes where relevant. Orders are packed with care and dispatched from Germany.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"kurayami-masao-yamamoto","title":"Kurayami – Masao Yamamoto, Akira Uchida","description":"\u003ch2\u003eKurayami — Light, Darkness, and the Space Between\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eKurayami\u003c\/em\u003e (暗闇, \"darkness\") is a photobook by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/masao-yamamoto\" title=\"Explore all Masao Yamamoto titles available in the shop\"\u003eMasao Yamamoto\u003c\/a\u003e and musician Akira Uchida, published as part of the \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/iikki\" title=\"Browse all IIKKI limited edition publications\"\u003eIIKKI\u003c\/a\u003e limited edition series. It continues the artistic dialogue the two began with \u003cem\u003eSasanami\u003c\/em\u003e in 2020, extending that collaboration into new territory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book is structured in two chapters — \u003cstrong\u003eSide A\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eSide B\u003c\/strong\u003e — each moving through Yamamoto's characteristic register: small-scale, hand-altered prints that hold light and shadow with equal attention. The images circle themes of transience, nature, intimacy, and presence without resolving them. Darkness here is not absence but atmosphere — a condition in which things become perceptible rather than disappear.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUchida's music is not incidental to the work. It functions as a coequal voice, composed in relation to the images and intended to be heard alongside them. Each copy includes a \u003cstrong\u003edownload code for the music\u003c\/strong\u003e by Akira Uchida, making the sonic dimension of the book directly accessible.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYamamoto's prints have long resisted the conventions of the exhibition-scale photograph. Their scale is intimate, their surfaces often worked by hand — tea-stained, scratched, layered. \u003cem\u003eKurayami\u003c\/em\u003e carries that sensibility into book form, where sequence and proximity shape meaning as much as individual images do.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAvailable in the shop's \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\" title=\"Browse the full photobook catalogue at Lokator100\"\u003ePhotobooks\u003c\/a\u003e catalogue alongside related titles in photography and artist publications.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"IIKKI","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51369722282330,"sku":"9782958615703","price":51.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/kurayami-masao-yamamoto-akira-uchida-iikki-cover.jpg?v=1778683960"},{"product_id":"no-borders-no-limits-mark-schilling","title":"No Borders No Limits: Nikkatsu Action Cinema - Mark Schilling","description":"\u003cp data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom renegade gangsters and leather-clad vixens to existential hitmen and psychedelic bikers — \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eNo Borders, No Limits: Nikkatsu Action Cinema\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is the first English-language book to explore the wildly stylish world of Japanese action films from the 1950s to 1970s. Authored by Mark Schilling, a leading expert on Japanese cinema, the book documents the birth and evolution of Nikkatsu Action, the genre that redefined cool in post-war Japan. Packed with rare film stills, posters, director profiles, and exclusive interviews with icons like Toshio Masuda and Joe Shishido, this richly illustrated volume is essential for cinephiles, Tarantino fans, and anyone fascinated by Japan's underground film legacy.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"FAB Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51545436127578,"sku":"9781903254431","price":20.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/no-borders-no-limits-cover.jpg?v=1751093976"},{"product_id":"eikoh-hosoe-book-english-edition-mack","title":"Eikoh Hosoe – English Edition, edited by Yasufumi Nakamori","description":"\u003ch2\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/eikoh-hosoe\" title=\"Browse all Eikoh Hosoe titles available at Lokator100\"\u003eEikoh Hosoe\u003c\/a\u003e — Major Monograph, English Edition (MACK, 2021)\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/mack-books\" title=\"Explore the full MACK Books catalogue at Lokator100\"\u003eMACK Books\u003c\/a\u003e in September 2021 and edited by Yasufumi Nakamori, this 400-page volume is a comprehensive survey of Eikoh Hosoe's photographic work. At 25 × 32.5 cm in an embossed hardback format, it is designed as a sustained reference rather than a compact introduction — a book built for long-term use alongside primary research.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe editorial scope extends beyond Hosoe's major series to include lesser-known collaborative work with writers, critics, dancers, and artists. That breadth is deliberate. It situates Eikoh Hosoe photography within a wider field shaped by postwar Japanese literature, performance, film, and visual culture — among them figures such as Yukio Mishima, Yayoi Kusama, and Shuzo Takiguchi. The result is a volume that reads as much as cultural history as artist monograph.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHosoe's significance is not limited to his images. He co-founded Vivo, later helped establish the Photography Workshop, and played a formative role in the development of postwar Japanese photography as an institution. His influence on subsequent generations — including Daido Moriyama — is part of what gives this book its depth. Nakamori's editorial framing reflects that complexity, drawing on both newly commissioned essays and key reprinted texts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis title is held as part of the \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\" title=\"Browse photography books and photobooks at Lokator100\"\u003ePhotography \u0026amp; Photobooks\u003c\/a\u003e catalogue at Lokator100.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MACK Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51651662872922,"sku":"9781913620240","price":65.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/eikoh-hosoe-english-edition-edited-by-yasufumi-nakamori-front-cover.jpg?v=1779287566"},{"product_id":"ravens-masahisa-fukase","title":"Ravens – Masahisa Fukase","description":"\u003ch2\u003eRavens by Masahisa Fukase — MACK 2017 Bilingual Facsimile of Karasu\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRavens\u003c\/em\u003e is the 2017 \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/mack-books\" title=\"Explore the full MACK Books catalogue at Lokator100\"\u003eMack Books\u003c\/a\u003e facsimile of \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/masahisa-fukase\" title=\"Browse all Masahisa Fukase titles at Lokator100\"\u003eMasahisa Fukase\u003c\/a\u003e's 1986 photobook \u003cem\u003eKarasu\u003c\/em\u003e — a sequence in which the raven functions not as ornithological subject but as a vehicle for grief, solitude, and self-projection. Produced as a bilingual edition in an embossed linen hardback housed in a silkscreened slipcase, this reprint returns the work to its original structure while adding a new essay by Tomo Kosuga.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout the Work\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe photographs in \u003cem\u003eRavens\u003c\/em\u003e were made in the years following Fukase's divorce from Yoko Wanibe, and are closely associated with a train journey back toward his home prefecture of Hokkaido. The sequence accumulates black wings, coastal light, and blurred distance into something that operates less as documentation than as a sustained internal state. The raven becomes a figure onto which isolation and loss are gradually projected — a formal strategy as much as a biographical one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePrinted across 80 tritone plates and 13 colour plates within 148 pages, the book's visual logic depends on tonal compression and the slow accumulation of a single motif. The tritone printing in this MACK edition sustains the tonal range that makes the sequence cohere. Tomo Kosuga's essay, included in both Japanese and English, situates the work within Fukase's broader biography and the conditions under which \u003cem\u003eKarasu\u003c\/em\u003e was first published in 1986.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRavens\u003c\/em\u003e holds a significant position in the history of the photobook medium — not because of its subject matter alone, but because of the precision with which Fukase bound a period of personal dissolution to a photographic form. The work is available in the Lokator100 \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\" title=\"Browse the photobook collection at Lokator100\"\u003ePhotobooks\u003c\/a\u003e catalogue as a central reference point in post-war Japanese photography.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout the Publisher\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis edition was produced by MACK Books, a London-based publisher known for its close attention to photobook production and its work with both historical and contemporary photographers. The 2017 facsimile of \u003cem\u003eKarasu\u003c\/em\u003e was produced with care for the original's physical format — square, substantial, and designed to be read as a sequence. Further titles from the publisher are available in the \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/mack-books\" title=\"Explore the full MACK Books catalogue at Lokator100\"\u003eMack Books\u003c\/a\u003e collection at Lokator100.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mack Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51700176650586,"sku":"9781910164839","price":85.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/ravens-masahisa-fukase-slipcase-english-title.jpg?v=1778432949"},{"product_id":"theater-of-love-nobuyoshi-araki","title":"Theater of Love - Nobuyoshi Araki","description":"\u003ch2\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eTheater of Love\u003c\/em\u003e — \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/nobuyoshi-araki\" title=\"Browse all Nobuyoshi Araki titles at Lokator100\"\u003eNobuyoshi Araki\u003c\/a\u003e, 1965 photographs published 2017\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTheater of Love\u003c\/em\u003e draws on a body of work made around 1965, when Araki was employed at the advertising agency Dentsu and working through questions of camera, process, and image in his own time. The photographs were not made for publication. They were found later, as prints, stored in a cabinet box bearing the title that now names this book. The 2017 publication by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/case-publishing\" title=\"Browse all Case Publishing titles at Lokator100\"\u003eCase Publishing\u003c\/a\u003e preserves that sense of latency — an object recovered rather than constructed after the fact.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe physical form reinforces this. The book is postcard-sized, 180 × 133 mm, and arrives inside a replica of a Fuji photographic paper box. That presentation is not decorative. It keeps the publication close to the conditions of the original find: something stored, handled, and returned to. The format makes the encounter with the images feel deliberate and contained rather than monumental.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe photographs themselves show women, city life, and the texture of everyday experience — subjects that would remain central to Araki's practice for decades. What distinguishes these images is the absence of retrospective editing. They hold the roughness of early experimentation, and that quality is part of what the book offers. First shown publicly at Taka Ishii Gallery in 2011, the work sits at an unusual position in Araki's output: neither juvenilia nor a fully formed statement, but a clear point of origin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor readers interested in Japanese photography, photo diaries, or the early formation of a sustained practice, \u003cem\u003eTheater of Love\u003c\/em\u003e belongs within the broader field of \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\" title=\"Explore the photography and photobook collection at Lokator100\"\u003ePhotography \u0026amp; Photobooks\u003c\/a\u003e that Lokator100 carries — work where the physical object and the photographic content are inseparable from each other.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Case Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52004250157402,"sku":"9784908526121","price":80.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/theater-of-love-fuji-paper-box-front.jpg?v=1778623914"},{"product_id":"new-land-pre-hokkaido-landscapes-toshiki-nakanishi","title":"New Land: Pre-Hokkaido Landscapes - Toshiki Nakanishi","description":"\u003ch2\u003eNew Land: Pre-Hokkaido Landscapes\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew Land: Pre-Hokkaido Landscapes\u003c\/em\u003e is a large-format black-and-white photobook by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/toshiki-nakanishi\" title=\"Browse all titles by Toshiki Nakanishi at Lokator100\"\u003eToshiki Nakanishi\u003c\/a\u003e, made in the Daisetsuzan mountains of central Hokkaido and published by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/case-publishing\" title=\"Browse all Case Publishing titles available at Lokator100\"\u003eCase Publishing\u003c\/a\u003e in 2023.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe photographs do not pursue the scenic. Snowfields, volcanic rock, and low cloud are treated as matter — present, unembellished, and without hierarchy. The images hold a visual register that is matter-of-fact rather than atmospheric: Hokkaido as terrain, not as spectacle. Across 56 black-and-white photographs, the Daisetsuzan range is rendered with the kind of attention that comes from long familiarity rather than encounter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book's written layer introduces a dimension of naming. The Ainu name \u003cstrong\u003eOptateske\u003c\/strong\u003e appears alongside the renaming tied to Meiji-era survey and administrative settlement. The text does not interpret. It states. That restraint is precise: the reader is left to register how a name shapes the reading of land without the book insisting on it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe physical object is hardcover, 260 × 367 mm — a scale that suits the subject. 104 pages carry 56 images. Text is bilingual: English and Japanese. ISBN 978-4-908526-53-4.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNakanishi (b. 1971, Osaka) has photographed Hokkaido since 1989. He relocated to Biei, in central Hokkaido, in 2012. \u003cem\u003eNew Land\u003c\/em\u003e is the product of that sustained, decades-long observation — landscape treated as lived territory rather than destination. Further titles are available in the \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/toshiki-nakanishi\" title=\"Browse all titles by Toshiki Nakanishi at Lokator100\"\u003eToshiki Nakanishi\u003c\/a\u003e collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis title is part of the \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\" title=\"Explore the photobook catalogue at Lokator100\"\u003ePhotobooks\u003c\/a\u003e catalogue at Lokator100.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Case Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52004937662810,"sku":"9784908526534","price":81.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/new-land-pre-hokkaido-landscapes-front-cover.jpg?v=1778662732"},{"product_id":"asakusa-ronin-de-goede","title":"Asakusa – Ronin de Goede","description":"\u003ch2\u003eAsakusa — Black-and-White Photobook on Tokyo Tattoo Culture\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAsakusa\u003c\/strong\u003e is a sustained black-and-white documentary project by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/ronin-de-goede\" title=\"Browse all titles by Ronin de Goede at Lokator100\"\u003eRonin de Goede\u003c\/a\u003e, built from long-term access to the studio of tattoo master Horikazu and the surrounding social environment in Tokyo's Asakusa district. The work moves between bodies, interiors, streets, and gatherings — staying close to skin, shadow, and surface without converting its subject into spectacle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcross its sequence, the book shifts between documentary directness and rougher, blurred passages that recall the Provoke-era are-bure-boke sensibility. The result is a sustained inquiry into proximity and permission: who is allowed to look, under what conditions, and what is withheld. De Goede records the studio environment as a system of gestures, waiting, and ritual repetition — the irezumi tradition observed from within rather than from a distance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/zen-foto-gallery\" title=\"Explore all Zen Foto Gallery publications at Lokator100\"\u003eZen Foto Gallery\u003c\/a\u003e in Tokyo, \u003cem\u003eAsakusa\u003c\/em\u003e is part of a broader catalogue of analogue photobooks attentive to Japanese visual and subcultural life. It sits within the \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\" title=\"Browse the photography and photobook catalogue at Lokator100\"\u003ePhotography \u0026amp; Photobooks\u003c\/a\u003e collection at Lokator100.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Zen Foto Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52009353740634,"sku":"9784910244044","price":80.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/asakusa-ronin-de-goede-front-cover.jpg?v=1778685734"},{"product_id":"eros-lost-seiji-kurata","title":"Eros Lost – Seiji Kurata","description":"\u003ch2\u003eEros Lost – Seiji Kurata\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEros Lost\u003c\/em\u003e is a posthumous photobook published by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/zen-foto-gallery\" title=\"Explore all Zen Foto Gallery publications available in the shop\"\u003eZen Foto Gallery\u003c\/a\u003e in 2020, assembled in close collaboration with the artist before his death. The book draws on Kurata's experimental nude photography from the 1980s, presenting 79 black-and-white and color images across 208 pages — many of them previously unpublished.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKurata's method in this body of work is precise and deliberate. Subjects are placed within interior environments — domestic rooms, furniture, machinery — and photographed under elaborate, constructed lighting. Poses are scripted rather than spontaneous, transforming the encounter between body and setting into something closer to visual theater. The photographs return repeatedly to questions of desire, memory, and the durability of the photographic moment itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/seiji-kurata\" title=\"Browse all Seiji Kurata titles in the catalogue\"\u003eSeiji Kurata\u003c\/a\u003e (1945–2020) studied at Tokyo University of the Arts and trained at the Workshop under Shomei Tomatsu. His debut book \u003cem\u003eFlash Up\u003c\/em\u003e (1980) received the Kimura Ihei Award and established his reputation within Japanese photography. Subsequent publications — including \u003cem\u003ePhoto Cabaret\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eGreat Asia\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e'80s Family\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eJapan\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eQuest for Eros\u003c\/em\u003e — extended that work across four decades. His photographs have been shown internationally, at Fondation Cartier in Paris and the Barbican Art Gallery in London.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEros Lost\u003c\/em\u003e occupies a specific position in Kurata's late career: it returns to a decade of work that had remained largely out of circulation, giving sustained attention to images that did not find their way into earlier publications. Within Zen Foto Gallery's publishing programme — which has consistently focused on Japanese photographers working outside mainstream commercial frameworks — the book represents a considered editorial act of recovery and recontextualization.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis title is part of the \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\" title=\"Browse the full photobook catalogue at Lokator100\"\u003ePhotobooks\u003c\/a\u003e catalogue at Lokator100.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Zen Foto Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52016761700698,"sku":"9784905453918","price":67.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/eros-lost-seiji-kurata-front-cover.jpg?v=1778624354"},{"product_id":"1980s-remnants-daido-moriyama","title":"1980s Remnants — Daido Moriyama","description":"\u003ch2\u003e\n\u003cem\u003e1980s Remnants\u003c\/em\u003e — \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/daido-moriyama\" title=\"Browse all Daido Moriyama titles available at Lokator100\"\u003eDaido Moriyama\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e1980s Remnants\u003c\/em\u003e is a 2022 hardcover photobook published by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/sokyusha\" title=\"View all Sokyusha publications available at Lokator100\"\u003eSokyusha\u003c\/a\u003e, assembling long-unpublished photographs that Daido Moriyama handed to Michitaka Ota in a box in 1987. The images remained out of circulation for decades before being shaped into this compact, 78-page volume, limited to 300 copies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout the book\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe photographs originate from a body of work set aside rather than abandoned. Some images from that 1987 box surfaced elsewhere over the years, but the larger portion stayed dormant until this publication. That interval is not incidental — it gives the book a quality of deferred arrival, as though the images are returning to view rather than being presented for the first time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVisually, the work moves through streets, architectural surfaces, and the raw textures of urban space that have long defined Moriyama's practice. What distinguishes this sequence is the presence of plant and floral images — an unexpected element within his better-known image world. The shift is subtle, but it opens the book outward, adding a register that sits in quiet tension with the surrounding urban material.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book's structure is compact and rhythmic. It does not build toward a retrospective argument or a heavy editorial statement. Instead, it works through accumulation and residue — 71 black-and-white images across 78 pages, with pacing that keeps the photographs close and deliberate. The result is not nostalgic. These images carry the same pressure and visual instability that characterises Moriyama's broader output; the long interval between making and publication has not softened them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFurther titles in the \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\" title=\"Explore the full photobook catalogue at Lokator100\"\u003ePhotobooks\u003c\/a\u003e catalogue are available at Lokator100.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sokyusha","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52033787789658,"sku":"SOK-MORI-1980REM-2022-HC","price":65.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/1980s-remnants-daido-moriyama-front-cover.jpg?v=1778680912"},{"product_id":"im-treibhaus-takeshi-shinoda","title":"Im Treibhaus – Takeshi Shinoda","description":"\u003ch2\u003eTokyo Greenhouses in Black and White\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIm Treibhaus\u003c\/em\u003e documents the interior worlds of Tokyo's greenhouses through a series of intensely dark black-and-white photographs. \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/takeshi-shinoda\" title=\"Browse all titles by Takeshi Shinoda at Lokator100\"\u003eTakeshi Shinoda\u003c\/a\u003e avoids architectural framing entirely, directing attention instead toward dense foliage, condensation, and the heavy, pressurised atmosphere that defines these spaces. The resulting images sit somewhere between botanical record and psychological study — tropical plants rendered strange by contrast and proximity, familiar forms made difficult to place.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe work follows \u003cem\u003eStation\u003c\/em\u003e (2022), in which Shinoda turned the same method on Tokyo's train stations — finding in their transitional, functional spaces a quality of suspension and unease. \u003cem\u003eIm Treibhaus\u003c\/em\u003e applies that same discipline to a subject that resists easy categorisation: not quite nature, not quite architecture, but a controlled environment where the organic has been made to perform. The continuity between the two books is one of approach rather than subject: the same high-contrast printing, the same refusal of documentary distance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/sokyusha\" title=\"Browse all titles published by Sokyusha at Lokator100\"\u003eSokyusha\u003c\/a\u003e in 2025, the book is a hardcover measuring 261 × 216 mm across 58 pages, containing 54 images. The edition is limited to 200 copies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIm Treibhaus\u003c\/em\u003e is part of the \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\" title=\"Explore the Photography \u0026amp; Photobooks collection at Lokator100\"\u003ePhotography \u0026amp; Photobooks\u003c\/a\u003e catalogue at Lokator100, where it sits alongside other works in Japanese fine art and urban photography. It will be of interest to collectors of photobooks, readers drawn to Japanese photography, and those attentive to the intersection of urban space and natural form.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sokyusha","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52034004287834,"sku":"SOKY-2025-SHINODA-IMTREIBHAUS","price":55.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/im-treibhaus-takeshi-shinoda-front-cover.jpg?v=1778685754"},{"product_id":"the-ancient-towers-zhang-yu-ming","title":"The Ancient Towers – Zhang Yu-Ming","description":"\u003ch2\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eThe Ancient Towers\u003c\/em\u003e — Zhang Yu-Ming\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Ancient Towers\u003c\/em\u003e by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/zhang-yu-ming\" title=\"Browse all titles by Zhang Yu-Ming at Lokator100\"\u003eZhang Yu-Ming\u003c\/a\u003e, published by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/zen-foto-gallery\" title=\"Explore the full Zen Foto Gallery catalogue at Lokator100\"\u003eZen Foto Gallery\u003c\/a\u003e in 2010, is a limited edition softcover photobook documenting Buddhist stone towers across China. The book contains 40 black-and-white photographs across 48 pages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eZhang approached this project as both systematic documentation and personal practice. Having identified and visited over a thousand towers, he performed a ritual prayer before each exposure — a discipline that shaped the character of the resulting images. The photographs are austere and measured, registering these structures as objects of cultural memory rather than spectacle. The series functions simultaneously as an archive of Buddhist architecture and as a record of sustained contemplative photography.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBorn in 1967 in Anhui, China, Zhang Yu-Ming trained initially in painting and sculpture before completing a Master's degree in photography at the Chinese Academy of Art between 2008 and 2010. His practice has remained focused on cultural heritage and Buddhist architecture, with \u003cem\u003eThe Ancient Towers\u003c\/em\u003e representing the central long-term work of that engagement. Further titles are listed in the \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/zhang-yu-ming\" title=\"Browse all titles by Zhang Yu-Ming at Lokator100\"\u003eZhang Yu-Ming\u003c\/a\u003e collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePublished by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/zen-foto-gallery\" title=\"Explore the full Zen Foto Gallery catalogue at Lokator100\"\u003eZen Foto Gallery\u003c\/a\u003e, Tokyo, 2010. Softcover, limited edition. 48 pages, 40 black-and-white images. Text in Japanese and English.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCondition is documented. This copy ships from Germany with tracking. Browse related titles in the \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\" title=\"Browse the photobooks collection at Lokator100\"\u003ePhotobooks\u003c\/a\u003e collection.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Zen Foto Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52047410233690,"sku":"ZFG-2010-ZYM-AT-SC","price":32.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/the-ancient-towers-front-cover.jpg?v=1778664674"},{"product_id":"wandering-dog-mai-nakama","title":"Wandering Dog – Mai Nakama","description":"\u003ch2\u003eWandering Dog — \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/mai-nakama\" title=\"Browse all titles by Mai Nakama at Lokator100\"\u003eMai Nakama\u003c\/a\u003e, Graf Publishers, 2024\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWandering Dog\u003c\/em\u003e is a hardcover photobook published by Graf Publishers in 2024 in a limited edition of 300 copies. The work is grounded in black-and-white photography and moves through themes of life, death, and transience as observed in a rural Japanese town. Its opening sequence — centred on the death of a cow — establishes a register that the book sustains across 43 photographs: close attention to animals, land, and the rhythms of everyday existence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNakama's visual method is precise rather than lyrical. She works with close-ups and stark compositions, using the contrast between light and dark not as atmosphere but as structure. The 56-page sequence alternates between proximity and distance, between the particular and the general, without resolving into sentiment. The book does not editorialize its subject matter; it observes it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs a physical object, \u003cem\u003eWandering Dog\u003c\/em\u003e is contained and deliberate — 56 pages, 43 photographs, hardcover binding, issued in an edition of 300. Graf Publishers, an independent Japanese publisher, has produced the book with the material restraint the work demands. The edition is not numbered in the source data, and no ISBN has been confirmed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor buyers interested in Japanese contemporary photography and the photobook as a form, this title sits within a wider field available through our \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\" title=\"Explore our curated selection of photography books and photobooks\"\u003ePhotography \u0026amp; Photobooks\u003c\/a\u003e collection at Lokator100.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GRAF Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52047630696794,"sku":"JP-GRAF-2024-MN-WDOG","price":60.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/wandering-dog-mai-nakama-front-cover-butterflies.jpg?v=1756395962"},{"product_id":"hashima-taiji-matsue","title":"Hashima - Taiji Matsue","description":"\u003ch2\u003eHashima — Photographs of Gunkanjima by Taiji Matsue\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHashima\u003c\/strong\u003e is a \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\" title=\"Explore the full photobook catalogue at Lokator100\"\u003ePhotobooks\u003c\/a\u003e title documenting the abandoned island of Hashima, commonly known as Gunkanjima, off the coast of Nagasaki. The photographs were made by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/taiji-matsue\" title=\"Browse all Taiji Matsue titles available at Lokator100\"\u003eTaiji Matsue\u003c\/a\u003e in 1983, when the island had been closed for nearly a decade following the end of coal extraction. The 2017 edition presents these images digitally remastered from the original negatives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHashima was developed from the late nineteenth century as a coal-mining facility, its land area expanded artificially and its surface covered in dense concrete residential and industrial structures. At its peak it housed thousands of workers and their families on a landmass of less than seven hectares. Operations ceased in 1974, and the island was closed to the public. When Matsue visited in 1983, the built fabric remained largely intact — corridors, stairwells, façades, and interiors held in a state of structural completeness without occupation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMatsue's approach to the site is systematic rather than expressive. The photographs attend to surfaces — concrete panels, window grids, corridor sequences, the geometry of repeated structural elements — without framing the island as a ruin in any romantic sense. The work is observational and measured. Absence registers not as loss but as a condition of the space, recorded with the same analytical attention Matsue applies across his broader practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe digital remastering from original negatives for this \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/getsuyosha\" title=\"Browse all Getsuyosha publications at Lokator100\"\u003eGetsuyosha\u003c\/a\u003e edition recovers tonal detail and structural clarity from four-decade-old source material. 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Shot during strolls through Tokyo’s vibrant neighborhoods, the series combines candid moments and vivid colors to reveal the unfiltered beauty of youth on the threshold of adulthood. With 64 pages of striking photographs, this softcover book offers an intimate glimpse into contemporary Japanese culture and the personal stories of its subjects.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kawako Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52118056599898,"sku":"9781916427624","price":30.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/tokyo-girls-emily-ashcroft-front-cover.jpg?v=1758572575"},{"product_id":"synthesis-mari-katayama","title":"Synthesis – Mari Katayama","description":"\u003ch2\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eSynthesis\u003c\/em\u003e — Mari Katayama\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSynthesis\u003c\/em\u003e is a large-format artist's book by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/mari-katayama\" title=\"Browse all Mari Katayama titles at Lokator100\"\u003eMari Katayama\u003c\/a\u003e, published by SPBH Editions \/ MACK in September 2025. It brings together nine photographic series made between 2019 and 2025, tracing a period shaped by motherhood, a return to Gunma, and sustained work inside the artist's home studio. The book's central concerns are body, memory, and transformation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout the book\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe nine series gathered in \u003cem\u003eSynthesis\u003c\/em\u003e — among them \u003cem\u003eTree of Life\u003c\/em\u003e — were produced in Katayama's home studio in Gunma over six years. The studio functions throughout as both a space of reflection and a controlled stage: Katayama places her body in relation to hand-sewn sculptures, threaded forms, paper collage, and constructed interiors. These are not casual self-portraits. Each image is a deliberate composition in which identity is assembled through repetition, material, gesture, and spatial arrangement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat distinguishes the publication is its refusal to settle on a fixed image of the body. Katayama's practice consistently treats the body as something staged, remade, measured, dressed, doubled, and re-examined. In \u003cem\u003eSynthesis\u003c\/em\u003e, that logic becomes especially legible across the full span of the work: opposites are held in tension rather than resolved, and personal history is carried forward through transformation rather than closure. The result is materially dense and unusually controlled.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSynthesis\u003c\/em\u003e operates as both a photobook and an artist's book. The photographic series are sequenced with the precision of a constructed publication, and the objects Katayama makes — sewn, assembled, worn — are as integral to the images as the body itself. The book does not separate the craft from the image-making; the two are the same practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/mack-books\" title=\"Explore the full MACK Books catalogue at Lokator100\"\u003eMACK Books\u003c\/a\u003e under the SPBH Editions imprint — SPBH Editions became an imprint of MACK in January 2024.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor related titles, browse the \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\" title=\"Browse the photobooks collection at Lokator100\"\u003ePhotobooks\u003c\/a\u003e collection.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MACK Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52434372690266,"sku":"978-1-917651-11-0","price":45.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/synthesis-mari-katayama-cover.jpg?v=1778589669"},{"product_id":"symphony-mushrooms-from-the-forest-hardcover-takashi-homma","title":"Symphony - mushrooms from the forest (Hardcover) - Takashi Homma","description":"\u003ch2\u003eSymphony – mushrooms from the forest: Hardcover Photobook by Takashi Homma\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSymphony - mushrooms from the forest\u003c\/em\u003e is a hardcover photobook by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/takashi-homma\" title=\"Browse all Takashi Homma titles available at Lokator100\"\u003eTakashi Homma\u003c\/a\u003e, published by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/case-publishing\" title=\"Explore all Case Publishing titles in the Lokator100 catalogue\"\u003eCase Publishing\u003c\/a\u003e in 2019. The project is built around a precise premise: mushrooms collected from landscapes marked by radioactive contamination, photographed as specimens and arranged with the care of a scientific catalogue. The result is a book that holds its subject at a measured distance while keeping the weight of that subject fully present.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach mushroom is isolated against a white background. The presentation is clinical — no staging, no atmosphere, no editorial pressure. The sequencing reads like an inventory, which is part of the logic. The images accumulate quietly, and that accumulation carries the argument.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHomma gathered specimens across four sites: \u003cstrong\u003eScandinavia, Fukushima, Chernobyl, and Stony Point\u003c\/strong\u003e. Between the specimen plates, photographs of forests and incidental travel views interrupt the sequence. These pauses return the collection to its source — the actual terrain, the actual forest, the conditions under which these things were found.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSymphony - mushrooms from the forest\u003c\/em\u003e was shortlisted for the \u003cstrong\u003e2020 Paris Photo – Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards\u003c\/strong\u003e. It was issued as a limited edition of 300 copies. The format — 334 × 265 mm, 296 pages — is designed for sustained attention, not quick handling. This is a title within the broader \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\" title=\"Browse the full photobook collection at Lokator100\"\u003ePhotobooks\u003c\/a\u003e category that rewards slow reading.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCondition\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUnread. Minor cosmetic wear only: small dent on the back edge of the case and faint surface traces on the front board. Interior is clean. 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The 118 monochrome photographs that make up \u003cem\u003eTibet\u003c\/em\u003e document nomads, pilgrims, and city residents encountered over the course of that extended stay. The sequence moves between close portraits, village scenes, and open landscapes without imposing a fixed hierarchy among them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe work records everyday life at a moment of imminent social and economic change. Arimoto's approach is direct and observational — sustained proximity rather than dramatic intervention. This black-and-white documentary photobook holds its ground between the intimate and the territorial, between individual faces and the wider conditions shaping them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis edition expands the original \u003cem\u003ePortrait of Tibet\u003c\/em\u003e with images not included in the 1999 publication, making it the most complete presentation of the project to date.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eOrdering and Dispatch\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCondition details and edition specifics for this copy are documented on the product page in accordance with Lokator100's standard practice. Orders are dispatched from Germany with tracking and careful packaging.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFurther titles in black-and-white documentary and Japanese photography are available in the \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\" title=\"Browse the photobook collection at Lokator100\"\u003ePhotobooks\u003c\/a\u003e collection.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Zen Foto Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52687028748634,"sku":"9784905453802","price":70.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/tibet-shinya-arimoto-cover-portrait.jpg?v=1778507868"},{"product_id":"yoshiichi-hara-walk-while-ye-have-the-light-sokyusha","title":"Walk while ye have the light - Yoshiichi Hara","description":"\u003ch2\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eWalk while ye have the light\u003c\/em\u003e — \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/yoshiichi-hara\" title=\"Browse all Yoshiichi Hara titles available at Lokator100\"\u003eYoshiichi Hara\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/sokyusha\" title=\"Explore all Sokyusha publications in the Lokator100 catalogue\"\u003eSokyusha\u003c\/a\u003e, 2011\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePublished by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/sokyusha\" title=\"Explore all Sokyusha publications in the Lokator100 catalogue\"\u003eSokyusha\u003c\/a\u003e in 2011, \u003cem\u003eWalk while ye have the light\u003c\/em\u003e is the follow-up to Hara's 2008 photobook \u003cem\u003eDark of True\u003c\/em\u003e. It extends his sustained investigation into the unstable boundary between truth and falsehood — a territory he treats not as metaphor but as photographic fact.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe title is drawn from John 12:35: \"Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.\" Hara takes this as both subject and method. Across 63 photographs on 68 pages, he records night streets, rainy riverbanks, glistening pavements, and fragmentary bodies. Light refracts through water, blurs edges, and dissolves the familiar into something closer to memory than documentation. The images resist fixed time — they seem to occupy past, present, and a possible future simultaneously.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe 260 × 232 mm hardcover is printed entirely in monochrome. Its physical restraint is consistent with the work's tone: nothing is embellished. The book has become difficult to source and is frequently listed as out of stock by dealers, making it a sought-after title among collectors of Japanese photobooks and those following Hara's output from \u003cem\u003eMandala Zukan\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eFubaika\u003c\/em\u003e through to \u003cem\u003eStripper Zukan\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eDark of True\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor those building a considered collection in \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\" title=\"Browse the full photography and photobook collection at Lokator100\"\u003ePhotography \u0026amp; Photobooks\u003c\/a\u003e, this title represents one of Hara's most fully realized later statements — quieter in register than his earlier erotic work, but no less precise in its attention.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sokyusha","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52687223521626,"sku":"SOKY-HARA-WALK-LIGHT-2011","price":42.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/walk-while-ye-have-the-light-yoshiichi-hara-cover.jpg?v=1778662130"},{"product_id":"akaruimirai-daisuke-matsumoto","title":"AKARUIMIRAI – Daisuke Matsumoto","description":"\u003ch2\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eAKARUIMIRAI\u003c\/em\u003e — Daisuke Matsumoto\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eAKARUIMIRAI\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/daisuke-matsumoto\" title=\"Browse all titles by Daisuke Matsumoto\"\u003eDaisuke Matsumoto\u003c\/a\u003e constructs a photographic sequence organised around conflict, mishap, and human failure. The images do not resolve — they accumulate, circling the same errors and accidents as though repetition were the only available logic. Matsumoto's approach is punk-inflected and critical: humour and cruelty coexist without hierarchy, and creation and destruction are treated as interchangeable states. The result is a vision of a future that does not improve so much as recur.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePublished by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/zen-foto-gallery\" title=\"Explore the full Zen Foto Gallery catalogue\"\u003eZen Foto Gallery\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAKARUIMIRAI\u003c\/em\u003e is a signed softcover edition of 500 copies. The book measures 220 × 148 mm, runs to 24 pages, and contains 16 photographs. It is a compact object — modest in scale, considered in form — consistent with the small-edition artist publications that define Zen Foto Gallery's output in contemporary Japanese photography.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMatsumoto was born in 1985 in Tottori, Japan, and is based in Tokyo. His practice draws on real-world events, staged scenes, and everyday objects to produce work that is simultaneously satirical and analytical. \u003cem\u003eAKARUIMIRAI\u003c\/em\u003e sits alongside his other titles available here: \u003ca href=\"\/products\/tsumitobatsu-daisuke-matsumoto-zen-foto-gallery\" title=\"View TSUMITOBATSU, another photobook by Daisuke Matsumoto\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eTSUMITOBATSU\u003c\/em\u003e – Daisuke Matsumoto\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"\/products\/sekainoheiwa-daisuke-matsumoto\" title=\"View SEKAINOHEIWA, Daisuke Matsumoto's debut photobook\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eSEKAINOHEIWA\u003c\/em\u003e — Daisuke Matsumoto\u003c\/a\u003e. 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The book presents 115 images of two companions — Sasuke and Tomoe — photographed with a closeness that keeps the distance between subject and photographer in constant question. Repetition and proximity are the book's primary formal tools. The sequence accumulates rather than narrates.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe reading that positions \u003cem\u003eSasuke\u003c\/em\u003e alongside \u003ca href=\"\/products\/ravens-masahisa-fukase\" title=\"Ravens by Masahisa Fukase — photobook available at Lokator100\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eRavens\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e as indirect self-portraiture is well-supported by the images. The cats' eyes function as reflective surfaces; the photographer's position stays insistently close. What the book tracks — across 192 pages — is less the animals themselves than the quality of attention Fukase brings to them: sustained, inward, and resistant to sentiment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn essay by Tomo Kosuga of the Masahisa Fukase Archive is included. The text is in Japanese only. Published in 2021 by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/akaaka-art-publishing\" title=\"All Akaaka Art Publishing titles available at Lokator100\"\u003eAkaaka Art Publishing\u003c\/a\u003e, the book belongs to a body of \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\" title=\"Explore the photobook catalogue at Lokator100\"\u003ephotobooks\u003c\/a\u003e in which form and autobiographical pressure are inseparable.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Akaaka Art Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52790008643930,"sku":"9784865411362","price":55.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/sasuke-masahisa-fukase-front-cover.jpg?v=1778428126"},{"product_id":"masahisa-fukase-1961-1991-retrospective","title":"Masahisa Fukase 1961–1991 Retrospective","description":"\u003ch2\u003eMasahisa Fukase 1961–1991: Eight Series in One Volume\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/akaaka-art-publishing\" title=\"Browse all titles published by Akaaka Art Publishing\"\u003eAkaaka Art Publishing\u003c\/a\u003e to accompany the large-scale 2023 exhibition at the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, this volume presents Masahisa Fukase's work across three decades — from the early 1960s through the early 1990s — as a coherent body of work rather than a sequence of isolated projects.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eEight series, one volume\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFukase is frequently encountered through a single title. This retrospective corrects that reduction. The book brings together eight major series: \u003cem\u003eYōko\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eFamily\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSasuke\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eWalking Eye\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePrivate Scenes\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBukubuku\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eYūgi \/ Homo Ludence\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eKarasu \/ Ravens\u003c\/em\u003e. Placing \u003ca href=\"\/products\/ravens-masahisa-fukase\" title=\"Buy Ravens by Masahisa Fukase — the iconic photobook now in context\"\u003eRavens - Masahisa Fukase\u003c\/a\u003e back into the larger structure from which it emerged, the retrospective framing is substantially more informative than any single-series reprint. For readers of Japanese photography and retrospective catalogues, that wider scope makes the book a more useful reference point.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAmong the most significant inclusions is \u003cem\u003eYōko\u003c\/em\u003e, which had not appeared in photobook form since its 1978 publication. Its presence reinforces the autobiographical logic running through Fukase's practice: wife, family, daily life, and self-projection form the persistent subject matter, pushed toward something formally inventive and psychologically charged.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eFukase beyond Ravens\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFukase's practice was private, autobiographical, and often obsessive in its focus on the people and spaces immediately around him. The retrospective format — spanning thirty years and eight distinct bodies of work — makes visible a continuity that individual series publications could not. Text contributions by Tomo Kosuga provide critical framing for the exhibition context and the work's longer arc. For readers approaching Fukase through \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\" title=\"Explore the full photobook catalogue at Lokator100\"\u003ePhotobooks\u003c\/a\u003e and postwar Japanese photography more broadly, this volume offers a more complete picture than any single title alone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eAt a glance\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublished for the 2023 Tokyo Photographic Art Museum retrospective exhibition\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCovers eight major series: \u003cem\u003eYōko\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eFamily\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSasuke\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eWalking Eye\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePrivate Scenes\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBukubuku\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eYūgi \/ Homo Ludence\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eKarasu \/ Ravens\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFirst photobook appearance of \u003cem\u003eYōko\u003c\/em\u003e since its 1978 publication\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e216 pages, cloth hardcover, 220 × 148 mm\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTexts in English and Japanese; critical text by Tomo Kosuga\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublished by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/akaaka-art-publishing\" title=\"Browse all titles published by Akaaka Art Publishing\"\u003eAkaaka Art Publishing\u003c\/a\u003e, 2023\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Akaaka Art Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53806595080538,"sku":"978-4-86541-166-9","price":45.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/masahisa-fukase-retrospective-front-cover.jpg?v=1773508387"},{"product_id":"record-no-50-daido-moriyama","title":"Record No. 50 — Daido Moriyama","description":"\u003ch2\u003eDaido Moriyama Record No. 50 — portrait at the centre of the series\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRecord No. 50\u003c\/em\u003e is a distinct entry in \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/daido-moriyama\" title=\"Browse all Daido Moriyama titles at Lokator100\"\u003eDaido Moriyama\u003c\/a\u003e's long-running \u003cem\u003eRecord\u003c\/em\u003e series. Where most issues follow the open, accumulative logic of street observation, this fiftieth volume concentrates entirely on a single subject: Yaco, a woman Moriyama met at the office of \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/akio-nagasawa-publishing\" title=\"Browse all titles published by Akio Nagasawa Publishing\"\u003eAkio Nagasawa Publishing\u003c\/a\u003e in late 2021. That narrowing of focus is the defining fact of the book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe sessions took place across two registers. Moriyama photographed Yaco outdoors in Ginza and Yurakucho, then continued indoors for a smaller number of nude studies. The shift between those two modes — the street-adjacent and the private — gives the book an internal tension that is unusual within the \u003cem\u003eRecord\u003c\/em\u003e sequence. The photographs retain the directness associated with Moriyama's practice, but the tempo is different: more deliberate, more concentrated on the exchange between photographer and subject.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMoriyama came to prominence through his association with \u003cem\u003eProvoke\u003c\/em\u003e, the short-lived but consequential Japanese photography journal of the late 1960s, and his career has since moved through many formats and subjects. The \u003cem\u003eRecord\u003c\/em\u003e series, running since 1972, has always functioned as his most immediate outlet — closer to a notebook than a retrospective. \u003cem\u003eRecord No. 50\u003c\/em\u003e sits within that tradition while departing from it: the serial logic remains, but the subject is singular. 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Published by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/masala-noir\" title=\"Browse all titles published by Masala Noir\"\u003eMasala Noir\u003c\/a\u003e, the book collects antagonist figures from the period 1970–2000, treating masks, costumes, and facial construction as its primary subject matter rather than narrative or critical context.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe editorial approach is that of a visual typology. \u003cem\u003eBad People\u003c\/em\u003e does not read as a critical study; it functions as a printed document — an accumulation of screen presences organised by image rather than argument. The A6 format suits this logic: small, dense, and close to the material, it keeps the focus on the imagery itself without the distancing effect of a larger, more discursive format.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book sits within a broader field of \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/film-books-film-culture\" title=\"Explore our Film Books \u0026amp; Film Culture collection\"\u003eFilm Books \u0026amp; Film Culture\u003c\/a\u003e publications concerned with Japanese screen culture, design history, and the serial construction of character across popular television. It is of interest to readers working across cult TV imagery, pop-cultural archives, and the visual history of Japanese broadcast media. 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Across 176 pages and 172 images, it moves between Kyoto and Enoshima — two locations that share little in atmosphere but are held together by the consistency of the photographer's attention.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book's first section places Kyoto at its center: women and passersby absorbed into the city's particular stillness, its weight of accumulated history pressing against the ordinariness of daily movement. Mizoguchi does not aestheticize the setting. The photographs remain grounded in observation — a face caught mid-turn, cloth against skin, the quality of light in a narrow street. The second section opens outward. Enoshima arrives with heat, sand, exposed bodies, and the looser temporality of a coastal summer. The shift is structural and atmospheric at once.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat holds the two halves together is not a thesis but a method. Mizoguchi photographs with a gaze that is simultaneously documentary and intimate — close enough to register physical detail, detached enough to avoid sentimentality. The erotic charge in these images is real but never theatrical; it emerges from proximity and timing rather than staging. Faces, gestures, bathing suits, black sand, and summer fatigue are all treated with equal attentiveness. The result is a book in which contrast — city and shoreline, history and seasonality, cloth and skin — does the interpretive work without forcing resolution.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePhotographed across the 1990s and 2000s, the work carries a quality of suspended memory. Moments feel both immediate and already receding. The emotional register is one of heat, drift, and a slightly unstable atmospheric tension — qualities that persist across both locations and give the book its coherence. Published by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/sokyusha\" title=\"Browse all Sokyusha publications at Lokator100\"\u003eSokyusha\u003c\/a\u003e in 2024, it is among the most formally considered of Mizoguchi's recent publications.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat this book is\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStreet photography and portrait work from Kyoto and Enoshima, 1990s–2000s\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStructural contrast between historical urban atmosphere and coastal exposure\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDocumentary directness combined with portrait-like intimacy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eErotic charge that is observational rather than staged\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEmotional register of heat, memory, and suspended summer drift\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eContrast used as method — not as forced thematic unity\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Sokyusha","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53895374635354,"sku":"YM-OBIANDSAND-SOK","price":60.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/obi-and-sand-kyoto-enoshima-front-cover.jpg?v=1778159611"},{"product_id":"surveillance-tsutomu-yamagata","title":"Surveillance – Tsutomu Yamagata","description":"\u003ch2\u003eObservation Without Encounter: \u003cem\u003eSurveillance\u003c\/em\u003e by Tsutomu Yamagata\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/tsutomu-yamagata\" title=\"Browse all Tsutomu Yamagata titles at Lokator100\"\u003eTsutomu Yamagata\u003c\/a\u003e has built a practice around people at the edges of ordinary social visibility. Earlier books — \u003cem\u003eThirteen Orphans\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eTen Disciples\u003c\/em\u003e — established this attention to figures who sit outside the centre of documentary convention. \u003cem\u003eSurveillance\u003c\/em\u003e continues that inquiry while shifting its method substantially: here the subject is young women in their twenties, and the photographic encounter has been replaced by a system designed to remove the photographer from the room entirely.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYamagata recruited participants through online bulletin boards and personal connections. They came from different circumstances — office workers, teachers, art students — and each was briefed on the project before agreeing to take part. He then handed each participant an infrared trail camera of the kind used to monitor wildlife. The camera triggered automatically on movement, produced no audible sound, emitted no visible light, and offered no means of reviewing captured images. The photographer was absent. The apparatus was not.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat this arrangement produces is an image-space that resists easy categorisation. The women knew they might be photographed. At moments they appear to address the camera directly, composing themselves for an unseen lens. At other moments they move through their rooms without apparent awareness of it. The resulting photographs sit between performance and inattention, between self-presentation and its suspension — an unstable register that the book neither resolves nor dramatises.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe conceptual argument of \u003cem\u003eSurveillance\u003c\/em\u003e concerns the asymmetry of the gaze: who looks, under what conditions, and what that looking produces in the person who is seen. The book does not present intimacy as access. It frames the camera as a mediating instrument that structures the relationship between observer and observed before any image is made. Published by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/zen-foto-gallery\" title=\"Explore all Zen Foto Gallery publications at Lokator100\"\u003eZen Foto Gallery\u003c\/a\u003e, the work sits within a publishing programme attentive to photography that tests the terms of its own practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs an object, \u003cem\u003eSurveillance\u003c\/em\u003e is a softcover \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\" title=\"Browse the photobook catalogue at Lokator100\"\u003ePhotobooks\u003c\/a\u003e edition housed in a slipcase, printed bilingually in English and Japanese, and issued in a limited edition of 500 copies. It contains 131 images across 144 pages.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Zen Foto Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53904838820186,"sku":"978-4-905453-72-7","price":80.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/surveillance-tsutomu-yamagata-front-cover.jpg?v=1774897745"},{"product_id":"sekainoheiwa-daisuke-matsumoto","title":"SEKAINOHEIWA — Daisuke Matsumoto","description":"\u003ch2\u003eSEKAINOHEIWA — Daisuke Matsumoto\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSEKAINOHEIWA\u003c\/em\u003e — the title translates from Japanese as \"world peace\" — is a photobook by Daisuke Matsumoto published by Zen Foto Gallery in 2012. The work operates in the register of performance and staged photography, posing questions about justice, its forms, and its relationship to what we call peace. The publisher's statement frames the inquiry directly: who is the hero, who is the monster, and what does justice — blind, unfeeling, neither dying nor reborn — actually call into being?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMatsumoto constructs images rather than documents them. The photographic approach is deliberate and theatrical, with each frame functioning as a proposition rather than a record. The 36-page hardcover contains 28 images, compact in format at 220 × 148 mm, and was issued as a limited edition of 1,000 copies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eExhibition Context\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book was published in conjunction with a solo exhibition at Zen Foto Gallery in 2012. It appeared at Art HK12 in Hong Kong, the Tokyo Art Book Fair, and the LA Art Book Fair — a selection of international contexts that situated it within the photobook and artist-publication circuit of that period.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Zen Foto Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54139629044058,"sku":"978-4-905453-11-6","price":32.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/sekainoheiwa-daisuke-matsumoto-cover.jpg?v=1778528801"},{"product_id":"tsumitobatsu-daisuke-matsumoto-zen-foto-gallery","title":"TSUMITOBATSU – Daisuke Matsumoto","description":"\u003ch2\u003eReliance, Consequence, and What Gets Lost\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eClinging to something — a person, a belief, a convenience — carries a cost that only becomes visible in its absence. 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