{"title":"Japanese Photobooks","description":"\u003ch2\u003ePostwar Positions and Contemporary Practice\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection brings together photobooks from Japan spanning the postwar decades through to current independent publishing. The selection moves across street photography, portraiture, performance, landscape, private memory, and the observation of everyday life — with titles by Daido Moriyama, Nobuyoshi Araki, Eikoh Hosoe, and Masahisa Fukase alongside work by Masao Yamamoto, Rinko Kawauchi, Seiji Kurata, Takashi Homma, and others active in more recent contexts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eIndependent Publishing and Editorial Range\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlongside monographs from established imprints, the collection includes titles from smaller Japanese publishers whose output sits at the intersection of photography and artist publication. The selection is maintained with attention to both historical positions and work that extends or complicates the photobook form. Titles are held in stock and dispatched from Germany.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"kurayami-masao-yamamoto","title":"Kurayami – Masao Yamamoto","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=\"Browse all Masao Yamamoto titles available in the shop\"\u003eMasao Yamamoto\u003c\/a\u003e and musician Akira Uchida, published by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/iikki\" title=\"Browse all IIKKI limited edition publications at Lokator100\"\u003eIIKKI\u003c\/a\u003e as a limited edition of 2000 copies, each hand numbered and hand stamped. It is the first and only edition — no reprint is planned. The book follows the dialogue Yamamoto and Uchida began with \u003cem\u003eSasanami\u003c\/em\u003e in September 2020, extending that collaboration into new conceptual 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 gelatin silver prints that hold light and shadow with equal attention. Across 56 photographs, 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. Six metallic and silver pages punctuate the sequence, and the hardcover carries an embossed logo, slot, and circle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUchida's music is not incidental to the work. It functions as a coequal voice, composed in direct relation to the images and intended to be heard alongside them. For \u003cem\u003eKurayami\u003c\/em\u003e, Uchida collaborated with Tono Tamami on Sho and Kosaka Osho on Sutra — contributions that deepen the sonic dimension of the book. Each copy includes a \u003cstrong\u003edownload code for the music\u003c\/strong\u003e by Akira Uchida, making that dimension directly accessible to every reader.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eKurayami\u003c\/em\u003e is part of the \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\" title=\"Browse the full photobook catalogue at Lokator100\"\u003ePhotobooks\u003c\/a\u003e catalogue at Lokator100. Another Yamamoto title, \u003ca href=\"\/products\/nusa-masao-yamamoto\" title=\"View Nusa, another Masao Yamamoto title available in the shop\"\u003eNusa - Masao Yamamoto\u003c\/a\u003e, is also available in the shop.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"IIKKI","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51369722282330,"sku":"9782958615703","price":65.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/kurayami-masao-yamamoto-akira-uchida-cover.jpg?v=1788626925"},{"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 at Lokator100\"\u003eEikoh Hosoe\u003c\/a\u003e — English Edition Monograph (MACK Books, 2021)\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 400-page monograph on \u003cstrong\u003eEikoh Hosoe\u003c\/strong\u003e, edited by \u003cstrong\u003eYasufumi Nakamori\u003c\/strong\u003e and published by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/mack-books\" title=\"Explore the full MACK Books catalogue at Lokator100\"\u003eMACK Books\u003c\/a\u003e in September 2021, is the most extensive English-language survey of Hosoe's photographic practice assembled to date. Produced as an embossed hardback at 25 × 32.5 cm, the volume is structured for sustained reading rather than selective reference.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNakamori's editorial approach extends well beyond Hosoe's canonical series. The book addresses collaborative work with figures from literature, performance, and visual culture — among them Yukio Mishima, Yayoi Kusama, and Shuzo Takiguchi. This scope distinguishes the volume from a conventional retrospective: rather than isolating Hosoe's output, it situates his photography within the broader intellectual and cultural conditions of postwar Japan. Critical texts, both newly commissioned and reprinted, support this contextual framing throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHosoe's significance in the history of postwar Japanese photography is not limited to his own images. He co-founded Vivo and later helped establish the Photography Workshop, two of the institutional structures through which a generation of photographers — including Daido Moriyama — developed their practice. Nakamori's editorial framing reflects this, treating the book as a document of a field as much as a record of an individual career. The result is a volume that functions as both monograph and historical account.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eEikoh Hosoe\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eEikoh Hosoe, born in 1933 in Yamagata, is one of the central figures in the history of Japanese photography. Since the mid-1950s, he has worked across image-making, curating, teaching, and institutional development. His practice helped move photography in Japan away from older documentary models and toward a more complex intersection of art, literature, performance, and film.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book 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, alongside a curated selection of \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/japanese-photobooks\" title=\"Browse Japanese photobooks available at Lokator100\"\u003eJapanese Photobooks\u003c\/a\u003e. A related title, \u003ca href=\"\/products\/a-world-of-eikoh-hosoe-spherical-dualism-of-photograph\" title=\"View A World of Eikoh Hosoe – a related title at Lokator100\"\u003eA World of Eikoh Hosoe: Spherical Dualism of Photograph\u003c\/a\u003e, is also available.\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-red-hardback-cover.jpg?v=1790635388"},{"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=1788799903"},{"product_id":"symphony-mushrooms-from-the-forest-takashi-homma","title":"Symphony - mushrooms from the forest (Softcover) - Takashi Homma","description":"\u003ch2\u003eRadioactive mushrooms, white backgrounds, and the forest as contaminated archive\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSymphony - mushrooms from the forest\u003c\/em\u003e is a 2019 softcover 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 the full Case Publishing catalogue at Lokator100\"\u003eCase Publishing\u003c\/a\u003e. The project takes radioactive mushrooms as its subject — gathered across four geographies — and photographs them against a white background, isolating each specimen with a precision closer to taxonomy than to landscape photography. Interspersed forest views hold the environmental context without resolving it into narrative.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout the work\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe structural reference point is Ed Ruscha's typological method: repetition as a form of inquiry rather than illustration. Homma photographs mushrooms collected in Scandinavia, Fukushima, Chernobyl, and Stony Point — each location carrying its own history of nuclear contamination or proximity to it. The white-background images recur throughout the sequence with the regularity of specimens in a field guide, while the forest inserts introduce scale, weather, and geography without explaining the contamination they imply.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe result is a transnational document that moves between foraging culture, radiation, and ecological memory without collapsing any of them into the others. The book remains visually flat and procedural even as the subject matter accumulates weight across its 296 pages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe softcover edition\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt 328 × 258 × 25 mm, the softcover edition is a large-format object. The sequence of 139 images across 296 pages gives the book a measured, expansive rhythm — the white-background photographs return at intervals that feel calibrated rather than arbitrary. Readers comparing formats may also wish to consult \u003ca href=\"\/products\/symphony-mushrooms-from-the-forest-hardcover-takashi-homma\" title=\"View the hardcover edition of Symphony - mushrooms from the forest by Takashi Homma\"\u003eSymphony - mushrooms from the forest (Hardcover)\u003c\/a\u003e. Both editions are available within the \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\" title=\"Browse the photobook collection at Lokator100\"\u003ePhotobooks\u003c\/a\u003e section of the catalogue.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Case Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52002582626650,"sku":"9784908526343","price":80.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/symphony-mushrooms-from-the-forest-front-cover.jpg?v=1788629161"},{"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\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\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\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\u003cp\u003eFor readers interested in \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/japanese-photobooks\" title=\"Browse Japanese photobooks available at Lokator100\"\u003eJapanese Photobooks\u003c\/a\u003e, 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\u003cp\u003e\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-nobuyoshi-araki-front-cover.jpg?v=1785783388"},{"product_id":"high-fashion-pawel-jaszczuk","title":"High Fashion – Pawel Jaszczuk","description":"\u003ch2\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eHigh Fashion\u003c\/em\u003e — Pawel Jaszczuk's Tokyo Salaryman Photobook\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eBetween 2008 and 2010, \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/pawel-jaszczuk\" title=\"Browse all titles by Pawel Jaszczuk at Lokator100\"\u003ePawel Jaszczuk\u003c\/a\u003e rode through Tokyo on his bicycle after midnight, returning home between 1 am and 4 am. Along the way he photographed salarymen — suited office workers — collapsed in public spaces: slumped on staircases, stretched across benches, folded against walls. The men are unconscious, still dressed for work, their postures accidental and total.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe series takes its title from a formal coincidence. The collapsed figures, photographed with a flat, frontal precision, inadvertently recall the staged poses of fashion editorials. Corporate dress codes — maintained with apparent care throughout the working day — meet complete physical surrender. The humor is structural: the suits remain intact; the men do not. Jaszczuk has been explicit that the work is not a statement against drinking. His original interest was the contrast between men in good suits and dirty streets. Over time, his reading of the material shifted. \u003cem\u003eHigh Fashion\u003c\/em\u003e is now framed as a humorous, apocalyptic document of overwork and chronic stress in Japanese urban society — a condition rendered visible only when the body finally gives out in public.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe series began as \u003cem\u003eSalaryman\u003c\/em\u003e, a black-and-white zine published with Morel Books in 2009, limited to 150 copies, which sold out immediately. This third edition, produced by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/zen-foto-gallery\" title=\"Explore the full Zen Foto Gallery catalogue at Lokator100\"\u003eZen Foto Gallery\u003c\/a\u003e in 2024, reframes the work in a large-format magazine-style photobook — a format that directly echoes the glossy visual language the title invokes. The shift from zine to photobook does not dissolve the original logic; it extends it. The scale and finish of the object become part of the argument.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcross 120 pages and 86 photographs, the cumulative effect moves away from satire toward document. Individual images read as absurd; the sequence reads as evidence. The overwork culture they record is not explained or editorialized — it is simply shown, repeatedly, with the same flat, almost clinical attention.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrowse related titles in our \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/japanese-photobooks\" title=\"Discover Japanese photobooks available at Lokator100\"\u003eJapanese Photobooks\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\" title=\"Browse our curated photography and photobook collection\"\u003ePhotography \u0026amp; Photobooks\u003c\/a\u003e collections.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Zen Foto Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52004804067674,"sku":"9784905453628","price":62.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/high-fashion-pawel-jaszczuk-cover.jpg?v=1788867198"},{"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-toshiki-nakanishi-cover-2.jpg?v=1788973499"},{"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":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/asakusa-ronin-de-goede-front-cover.jpg?v=1785779762"},{"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 in the year before his death in February 2020. The book draws on Kurata's nude photography from the 1980s, presenting 79 images across 208 pages — many of them previously unpublished, reproduced from original negatives.\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. As editor Amanda Ling-Ning Lo writes in the afterword: \"Over a 40-year career, Kurata continued his dialogue with the camera. Can a certain moment become an eternity? Will the story of all existence be affirmed and accepted under the same sky?\" The photographs return repeatedly to questions of desire, memory, and the durability of the photographic moment itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKurata began publishing selections of this nude work in the magazines \u003cem\u003eShashin Jidai\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eShashin Sekai\u003c\/em\u003e between 1985 and 1989, collecting them in the photobook \u003cem\u003eQuest for Eros\u003c\/em\u003e in 1999–2000. \u003cem\u003eEros Lost\u003c\/em\u003e revisits that decade of work through images that did not find their way into earlier publications, drawn from Kurata's original negatives. Within \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/zen-foto-gallery\" title=\"Explore all Zen Foto Gallery publications available in the shop\"\u003eZen Foto Gallery\u003c\/a\u003e'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\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/seiji-kurata\" title=\"Browse all Seiji Kurata titles in the catalogue\"\u003eSeiji Kurata\u003c\/a\u003e (1945–2020) was born in Tokyo and graduated from the Workshop School of Photography in 1976, having studied at Tokyo University of the Arts under Shomei Tomatsu and others. His debut book \u003ca href=\"\/products\/flash-up-2013-new-edition-seiji-kurata\" title=\"View Flash Up by Seiji Kurata — Kimura Ihei Award-winning debut photobook\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eFlash Up\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e (1980) received the Kimura Ihei Award for its documentation of Tokyo's nightlife — motorcycle gangs, yakuza, cabarets — and established his reputation within Japanese photography. Subsequent publications — \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, including at Fondation Cartier in Paris and the Barbican Art Gallery in London.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis title is part of the \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\" title=\"Browse the full photobook catalogue at Lokator100\"\u003ePhotography \u0026amp; Photobooks\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":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/eros-lost-seiji-kurata-front-cover.jpg?v=1785786939"},{"product_id":"ash-new-edition-muge","title":"Ash (New Edition) — Muge","description":"\u003ch2\u003eAsh (New Edition) — Muge\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAsh (New Edition)\u003c\/em\u003e is a photobook by Chinese photographer Muge, published by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/zen-foto-gallery\"\u003eZen Foto Gallery\u003c\/a\u003e and Muge Gallery in September 2019. It is a revised edition of the original 2013 publication and presents Muge's sustained engagement with nature, time, and material form through three sequential sections: \u003cem\u003eStill Life\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eShan Shui\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eScenery\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eStructure and Concept\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book's organisation is both conceptual and physical. The three sections are stacked on top of each other, forming a staircase-like design — a structure that mirrors the layered, accumulative logic of Muge's images. Each photograph is printed in black and gray and finished with glossy varnish, matte varnish, or special color varnish, selected according to the condition of each individual subject.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe work is grounded in Lao Tze's Theory of Nature. Muge approaches his subjects not as an observer from outside but as someone who belongs to the environment, allowing objects, landscapes, and places the space to weather, grow, decay, and exist on their own terms. Still life objects, mountain forms, water, and stone recur across the three sections as anchors of an extended meditation on cycles of change.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Muge's own words:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"When I used the large format camera to re-understand my hometown as it is now, I've discovered that all things in the real world derive from our internal desire: the Karma cycle of yearning for nature, destroying nature, and mending nature (...) These images are taken from the understandings gleaned from my daily life, conveying the traces of time and history in nature, and a person's thoughts of the future when faced with reality.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003ePublication History\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first edition of \u003cem\u003eAsh\u003c\/em\u003e was published by Zen Foto Gallery in 2013. This new edition, released in September 2019, marks a reissue of that work. Both editions were produced in Japan under the \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/zen-foto-gallery\"\u003eZen Foto Gallery\u003c\/a\u003e imprint. The 2019 edition coincided with a period of expanded international exhibition activity for Muge, including his solo presentation at Format Photo Festival.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Zen Foto Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52017004216666,"sku":"9784905453871","price":65.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/ash-new-edition-muge-cover-front.jpg?v=1792071802"},{"product_id":"berg-werk-sincei-yamamoto","title":"Berg Werk - Sincei Yamamoto","description":"\u003cp\u003e“Berg Werk” by Sincei Yamamoto is a striking photobook about the traces of the vanished coal industry in Akabira, Hokkaidō. Returning 25 years after his youth, Yamamoto documents abandoned mine shafts, industrial architecture, and landscapes caught between decay and memory. Across 40 black-and-white photographs, the work becomes an attempt to stop time and fix a “skin of light” onto places filled with history and silence, blending documentary vision with deeply personal reflection.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sokyusha","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52032757956954,"sku":"SOK-YAMAMOTO-BERG-2016-HC","price":50.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/berg-werk-sincei-yamamoto-front-cover.jpg?v=1785769375"},{"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\"\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\"\u003eSokyusha\u003c\/a\u003e, drawn from a box of long-unpublished 1980s photographs that Daido Moriyama handed to Michitaka Ota in 1987. Some images from that box appeared elsewhere in the years that followed, but the larger portion remained set aside until this publication gave them form.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout the book\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe photographs originate from a body of work held back rather than discarded. That interval between making and publication gives the book a quality of deferred arrival — the images read less as a fresh argument than as a residue returning to the surface. Visually, the sequence moves through streets, architectural surfaces, and the raw textures of urban space long associated with Moriyama's practice. What distinguishes this volume is the presence of plant and floral photographs within that otherwise familiar urban register — a quiet, unexpected counterpoint rather than a departure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book's structure is compact and rhythmic, working through accumulation rather than a retrospective statement. Across 78 pages and 71 black-and-white images, the pacing keeps the photographs close and deliberate. The long gap between exposure and publication has not softened them; the same pressure and visual instability that mark Moriyama's wider output remain intact here.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout Daido Moriyama\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/daido-moriyama\"\u003eDaido Moriyama\u003c\/a\u003e was born in Osaka in 1938 and moved to Tokyo in 1961, entering the orbit of the VIVO group before working as an assistant to Eikoh Hosoe. He began his freelance career in 1964. His practice — rooted in black-and-white street photography, urban fragmentation, and the visual instability of modern Japanese life — has remained one of the most sustained and recognisable bodies of work in postwar photography.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e1980s Remnants\u003c\/em\u003e shows a quieter but still unmistakable aspect of that vision. The images remain rough, restless, and materially alert, yet the long interval between their making and publication gives them a slightly different temperature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFurther titles from \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/sokyusha\"\u003eSokyusha\u003c\/a\u003e and the wider \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\"\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-cover-2.jpg?v=1789901626"},{"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 (Japanese title: 温室) turns \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/takeshi-shinoda\" title=\"Browse all titles by Takeshi Shinoda at Lokator100\"\u003eTakeshi Shinoda\u003c\/a\u003e's camera on the interiors of Tokyo's greenhouses — spaces defined not by their architecture but by what accumulates inside them: oppressive humidity, the sickly-sweet weight of tropical air, and a quality of enclosure that makes the familiar difficult to place. Working in high-contrast black-and-white, Shinoda produces prints that are unusually dark, rendering tropical plants as something between botanical specimen and psychological pressure — organic forms made strange by their controlled environment, at once exotic and almost unnatural.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book follows \u003cem\u003eStation\u003c\/em\u003e (2022), in which Shinoda applied the same close-reading method to Tokyo's train stations — transitional, functional spaces carrying a persistent quality of suspension. \u003cem\u003eIm Treibhaus\u003c\/em\u003e extends that discipline to a subject that resists easy classification: not quite nature, not quite architecture, but a managed environment in which the organic is made to perform. The continuity between the two books is methodological rather than thematic — the same refusal of documentary distance, the same high-contrast printing, the same attention to atmosphere over structure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/sokyusha\" title=\"Browse all titles published by Sokyusha at Lokator100\"\u003eSokyusha\u003c\/a\u003e (蒼穹舎, Tokyo) on 31 May 2025, the book is a hardcover measuring 261 × 216 mm across 58 pages, containing 54 photographs. The edition is limited to 200 copies. Supporting material includes a list of photographed locations and the photographer's biography, both in Japanese and English. Producer: Michitaka Ota. Designer: Akihiko Tsukamoto. Translator: Bonnie Pong-Wai Ma. Printer: SunM Color Co., Ltd.\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. It will be of interest to collectors of photobooks, readers drawn to \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/japanese-photobooks\" title=\"Browse Japanese photobooks available at Lokator100\"\u003eJapanese Photobooks\u003c\/a\u003e, 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-cover.jpg?v=1789368918"},{"product_id":"far-east-obsession-mark-pearson","title":"Far East Obsession - Mark Pearson","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem data-start=\"1381\" data-end=\"1401\"\u003eFar East Obsession\u003c\/em\u003e by Mark Pearson, founder of Zen Foto Gallery, is a limited edition tabloid of 500 copies, published in 2015 by Hiroshi Onishi co., Ltd. The 32 black-and-white photographs, created in collaboration with Chris Shaw and Tokyo Rumando, explore a visual dialogue between subject and photographer. Set in Hong Kong, the work addresses the tension between intimacy, performance, and nude portraiture. Presented in large tabloid format (274 × 406 mm), it stands as both a collector’s piece and a document of experimental Asian photography.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hiroshi Onishi co., Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52047301149018,"sku":"LKB-PEARSON-FEO-2015","price":35.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/far-east-obsession-mark-pearson-front-cover.jpg?v=1785771896"},{"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. 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The book was conceived following an encounter described by the photographer: on a farm during her travels, she met a pregnant cow she hoped to observe through calving. The cow was later found dead. This event opens a sequence that extends across 56 pages and 43 black-and-white photographs, moving through animals, land, and the rhythms of everyday life in an unnamed rural Japanese town.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNakama's images alternate between intimate close-up and stark, wide composition. Her black-and-white printing favours contrast over gradation, so that light appears to emerge from darkness rather than illuminate it evenly. The book does not comment on its subject matter; it records it, holding scenes of birth, death, and ordinary rural labour within the same visual register.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs an object, \u003cem\u003eWandering Dog\u003c\/em\u003e measures 210 × 252 mm and is bound as a thread-sewn hardcover with hollow-back construction, printed and bound in Japan by SunM Color Co., Ltd. The book was designed by Katsuya Kato, edited and published under Shuhei Motoyama, with English translation by Shinichiro Ishii. Text appears in parallel Japanese and English. The edition is limited to 300 copies; it is not numbered per available production data, and no ISBN has been confirmed for this title.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout the Photographer\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/mai-nakama\"\u003eMai Nakama\u003c\/a\u003e (b. 1987, Yamaguchi; lives and works in Tokyo) is a Japanese photographer whose practice centres on memory, everyday life, and the boundaries between presence and absence. Her work has been shown at Nikon Salon in Tokyo, Osaka, and Shinjuku, at Book Marute, Gallery Kaido, and at Das Japanische Haus in Germany. 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The photographs were made by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/taiji-matsue\"\u003eTaiji Matsue\u003c\/a\u003e in 1983, when the island had been closed for nearly a decade following the end of coal extraction. This 2017 edition presents the 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, recorded with the same analytical attention Matsue applies across his broader practice of landscape and architectural documentation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe digital remastering from original negatives for this \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/getsuyosha\"\u003eGetsuyosha\u003c\/a\u003e edition recovers tonal detail and structural clarity from four-decade-old source material. The book comprises 168 pages with text in Japanese and English, in softcover format.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout Taiji Matsue\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/taiji-matsue\"\u003eTaiji Matsue\u003c\/a\u003e was born in Tokyo in 1963. His photographic practice is characterised by a systematic, near-cartographic attention to landscape and the built environment — places treated as legible systems to be mapped, measured, and observed with controlled distance rather than interpreted through subjective response. His thematic focus spans natural terrain, urban infrastructure, and architectural fabric, approached with consistent methodological rigour across projects. 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Published by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/mack-books\" title=\"Explore the full MACK Books catalogue at Lokator100\"\u003eMack Books\u003c\/a\u003e and winner of the MACK First Book Award 2018, it belongs to a tradition of long-form, structurally rigorous work where formal constraint generates meaning.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout the work\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe premise is deliberately narrow: the camera does not move, the subject does not change, and the years pass. What shifts is everything else. The table becomes a sun bed, a counter, a meeting point, a play structure, an exercise platform, a temporary refuge. Table tennis itself is nearly absent. The photographs accumulate into a dry, precise record of how public infrastructure is quietly colonised by everyday life — the gap between designated use and actual use being, in effect, the book's subject.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe humour is structural rather than performed. Nothing is staged, nothing captioned for effect. The repetition of the frame makes the variations legible, and the variations make the repetition worthwhile. Within contemporary serial photography, \u003cem\u003eTTP\u003c\/em\u003e stands as a clear reference point for this mode of observation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mack Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52426996842842,"sku":"978-1-912339-24-2","price":50.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/ttp-hayahisa-tomiyasu-front-cover.jpg?v=1778679361"},{"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. See defect photos.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso available: \u003ca href=\"\/products\/symphony-mushrooms-from-the-forest-takashi-homma\" title=\"View the softcover edition of Symphony – mushrooms from the forest by Takashi Homma\"\u003eSymphony - mushrooms from the forest (Softcover)\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Case Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52673837105498,"sku":"9784908526350","price":120.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/symphony-mushrooms-from-the-forest-hardcover-cover.jpg?v=1788629175"},{"product_id":"tokyo-on-the-brink-of-sanity-yoshio-mizoguchi","title":"Tokyo on the Brink of Sanity - Yoshio Mizoguchi","description":"\u003ch2\u003eTokyo and Shinjuku across the post-bubble years\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTokyo on the Brink of Sanity\u003c\/em\u003e moves through Tokyo at a moment when the bubble's fantasy had already begun to dissolve, but its emotional residue still shaped the city. Working across portraiture, snapshot, and street photography, \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/yoshio-mizoguchi\" title=\"Browse all Yoshio Mizoguchi titles at Lokator100\"\u003eYoshio Mizoguchi\u003c\/a\u003e stays close to the surface of daily life while allowing anxiety, erotic tension, drift, and urban fatigue to accumulate across the sequence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book's particular strength is its refusal to turn Tokyo into spectacle. Rather than grand summary, Mizoguchi works through fragments: street encounters, women in transit, bodies under pressure, moments of waiting, the unstable rhythm of Shinjuku at night. That approach produces a tone that is neither nostalgic nor journalistic — suspended, instead, between immediacy and disorientation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe photographs move between eroticism and ordinariness, and that tension is central to the work. The city appears restless, overstimulated, and emotionally porous. What accumulates across the 188 images is not a document of Tokyo but a visual atmosphere specific to the years after the collapse of certainty — a condition Mizoguchi renders without explanation or resolution.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished in 2022 by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/sokyusha\" title=\"Browse all Sokyusha publications at Lokator100\"\u003eSokyusha\u003c\/a\u003e as a signed limited edition of 500 copies, this hardcover \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\" title=\"Browse the photobook catalogue at Lokator100\"\u003ePhotobooks\u003c\/a\u003e title is a considered contribution to the literature of Japanese street photography and post-bubble urban imagery.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sokyusha","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52686499447130,"sku":"SOKY-MIZOGUCHI-TOKYO-BRINK-2022","price":80.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/tokyo-on-the-brink-of-sanity-cover-portrait.jpg?v=1785786048"},{"product_id":"jesus-pawel-jaszczuk","title":"¥€$U$ (JESUS) — Pawel Jaszczuk","description":"\u003ch2\u003eChristian Iconography as Consumer Commodity\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e¥€$U$ (JESUS)\u003c\/strong\u003e is a colour photobook by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/pawel-jaszczuk\" title=\"Browse all Pawel Jaszczuk titles available at Lokator100\"\u003ePawel Jaszczuk\u003c\/a\u003e, published by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/zen-foto-gallery\" title=\"Explore all Zen Foto Gallery publications at Lokator100\"\u003eZen Foto Gallery\u003c\/a\u003e in 2019. Having returned to Poland after a decade living abroad, Jaszczuk found himself confronted with the saturation of Christian imagery across everyday consumer goods — sacred figures reproduced on underwear, chocolate, bathtub accessories, earrings, lamp-stands, tattoos, sex toys, and other mass-produced objects. The book documents and interrogates this condition: the grotesque convergence of holy symbols and commodity logic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe photographs record these objects directly, without staging or narrative arrangement. The approach is descriptive — surfaces, repetition, context. \u003cstrong\u003e¥€$U$ (JESUS)\u003c\/strong\u003e does not editorialize. It presents the material as found: devotional iconography absorbed into the same distribution channels as any other consumer product, circulating without friction or distinction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe deadpan register is consistent throughout. There is no hierarchy among the objects depicted, no progression toward a conclusion. The book poses the question without answering it — is this religion's way of staying current? — and leaves the accumulation of evidence to speak for itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the publisher's statement: \u003cem\u003e\"Jesus and ¥€$U$. What is the difference here? The simple answer is: everything. Nowadays, Jesus is more a symbolic religious figure than he is a real person. From a cultural point of view he might be considered as a metaphorical figure — the personification of all virtues, the master figure. ¥ € $ U $ is an aberration of a religious order.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFurther titles by the same photographer are available in the \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/pawel-jaszczuk\" title=\"Browse all Pawel Jaszczuk titles available at Lokator100\"\u003ePawel Jaszczuk\u003c\/a\u003e collection. Additional publications from \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/zen-foto-gallery\" title=\"Explore all Zen Foto Gallery publications at Lokator100\"\u003eZen Foto Gallery\u003c\/a\u003e are listed in the publisher's collection. The full \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\" title=\"Browse the full photobook catalogue at Lokator100\"\u003ePhotography \u0026amp; Photobooks\u003c\/a\u003e catalogue is also available at Lokator100.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Zen Foto Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52686851604826,"sku":"9784905453819","price":55.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/u-jesus-pawel-jaszczuk-cover-portrait.jpg?v=1783607422"},{"product_id":"tibet-shinya-arimoto","title":"Tibet – Shinya Arimoto","description":"\u003ch2\u003eTibet – Shinya Arimoto Photobook (Zen Foto Gallery)\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTibet\u003c\/strong\u003e is the expanded edition of Shinya Arimoto's out-of-print debut, \u003cem\u003ePortrait of Tibet\u003c\/em\u003e (1999), extended with previously unpublished photographs and published by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/zen-foto-gallery\" title=\"Explore the full Zen Foto Gallery catalogue at Lokator100\"\u003eZen Foto Gallery\u003c\/a\u003e as a limited hardcover of 1,000 copies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout the Book\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn his twenties, Arimoto travelled through the wider Tibetan cultural region, working across parts of China, India, and Nepal. 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-front.jpg?v=1788968482"},{"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\"\u003eYoshiichi Hara\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/sokyusha\"\u003eSokyusha\u003c\/a\u003e, 2011\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePublished by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/sokyusha\"\u003eSokyusha\u003c\/a\u003e on 21 November 2011 in an edition of 600 copies, \u003cem\u003eWalk while ye have the light\u003c\/em\u003e (光あるうちに) follows Yoshiichi Hara's 2008 photobook \u003cem\u003eDark of True\u003c\/em\u003e. Where that earlier volume examined the unstable territory between truth and fiction, this book continues the inquiry through a looser, more atmospheric sequencing of 63 black-and-white photographs across 68 pages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe images move through night streets, rain-soaked riverbanks, and wet pavements, where light catches on reflective surfaces and blurs the edges of figures and objects. People, places, and things are drawn together less by narrative than by shared atmosphere, so that the sequence reads as a set of related impressions rather than a documentary record of any single subject.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe title is taken from John 12:35 — \"Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you\" — a passage printed at the book's opening. Read critically rather than devotionally, it frames photography itself as a search conducted against the approach of darkness, consistent with the hesitant, twilight quality of the pictures that follow.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe hardcover volume, 260 × 232 mm, was designed by Koichi Hara and printed by Taiyo Printing Co. It sits within Hara's later, more introspective period of work, following earlier titles such as \u003cem\u003eMandala Zukan\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eStripper Zukan\u003c\/em\u003e. Original copies have become difficult to source and are frequently listed as out of stock by dealers. Within Lokator100's \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\"\u003ePhotography \u0026amp; Photobooks\u003c\/a\u003e collection, it stands as one of the more fully realized statements of Hara's later practice.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sokyusha","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52687223521626,"sku":"SOKY-HARA-WALK-LIGHT-2011","price":79.0,"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-front.jpg?v=1791554738"},{"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 sits within a body of \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\" title=\"Explore the full photobook catalogue at Lokator100\"\u003ephotobooks\u003c\/a\u003e in which formal structure and autobiographical pressure are inseparable. Readers interested in the broader arc of Fukase's practice may also want to consider the \u003ca href=\"\/products\/masahisa-fukase-1961-1991-retrospective\" title=\"Masahisa Fukase retrospective photobook at Lokator100\"\u003eMasahisa Fukase 1961–1991 Retrospective\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"\/products\/yoko-masahisa-fukase\" title=\"Yoko by Masahisa Fukase — photobook at Lokator100\"\u003eYoko\u003c\/a\u003e, both available through the \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/japanese-photobooks\" title=\"Japanese photobooks available at Lokator100\"\u003eJapanese Photobooks\u003c\/a\u003e catalogue.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Akaaka Art Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52790008643930,"sku":"9784865411362","price":55.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/sasuke-masahisa-fukase-front-cover.jpg?v=1778428126"},{"product_id":"soviet-transport-hoshino-ai-softcover","title":"Soviet Transport Photobook – Hoshino Ai","description":"\u003ch2\u003eSoviet Transport – Abandoned Vehicles and Transit Infrastructure Across Post-Soviet Regions\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSoviet Transport\u003c\/em\u003e is a color photobook by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/hoshino-ai\" title=\"Browse all photobooks and publications by Hoshino Ai\"\u003eHoshino Ai\u003c\/a\u003e, published by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/tokyo-kirara\" title=\"Explore the full Tokyo Kirara catalogue at Lokator100\"\u003eTokyo Kirara\u003c\/a\u003e. The book documents vehicles and transit infrastructure left in place after the dissolution of a vast socialist state, working across Lithuania, Ukraine, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe photographs are organized as a typology of industrial archaeology. Cable cars, rail lines, aircraft, ships, tanks, trucks, and amusement-park rides are each treated as discrete objects — recorded for their material condition and site context rather than for symbolic weight. The sequence is descriptive and systematic. Each vehicle or structure is presented as a final station: neither mourned nor celebrated, simply documented.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe geographic scope connects regions that share a common infrastructural inheritance while diverging sharply in the decades since. Hoshino Ai moves through Eastern Europe and Central Asia without imposing a unified narrative. The work accumulates through repetition and variation — the same categories of object, different states of arrest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCompact at 21 × 15 cm and 120 pages, \u003cem\u003eSoviet Transport\u003c\/em\u003e functions equally as documentary fieldwork and as a visual index. It belongs to a body of work in \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\" title=\"Browse the photobook collection at Lokator100\"\u003ePhotobooks\u003c\/a\u003e concerned with post-Soviet landscape and Soviet-era material culture. Readers engaged with infrastructure studies, typological photography, or the visual history of the post-Soviet space will find the approach direct and the scope precise. The companion volume \u003ca href=\"\/products\/soviet-architectural-design-hoshino-ai-softcover\" title=\"Soviet Architectural Design – a companion photobook by Hoshino Ai\"\u003eSoviet Architectural Design - Hoshino Ai\u003c\/a\u003e applies a related methodology to the built environment of the same regions.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tokyo Kirara","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52817344364890,"sku":"9784903883670","price":31.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/soviet-transport-photobook-hoshino-ai-front-cover.jpg?v=1788865643"},{"product_id":"soviet-architectural-design-hoshino-ai-softcover","title":"Soviet Architectural Design – Hoshino Ai","description":"\u003ch2\u003eSoviet-Era Bus Stops Across the Eastern Bloc and Central Asia\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSoviet Architectural Design\u003c\/em\u003e documents a specific and largely unarchived category of public infrastructure: the roadside bus stop as designed and built across the former Soviet sphere. \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/hoshino-ai\" title=\"Browse all titles by photographer Hoshino Ai\"\u003eHoshino Ai\u003c\/a\u003e photographs these structures in color, moving through the Eastern Bloc and Central Asia with a typological method — each shelter treated as a discrete object, each image restrained and frontal. The shelters themselves are far from standardized. Sculptural concrete, vivid mosaics, and playful geometry recur across the sequence, the work of local architects, students, and artists operating within the material and ideological conditions of socialist modernity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book sits at the intersection of documentary photography and design history. Arranged as a catalog-like sequence, it functions as an archive of roadside architecture that faces ongoing loss through renovation, neglect, or demolition. There is no sentimentality in the framing. The images hold to form, surface, and condition. What accumulates across 120 pages is a record of place-specific design decisions made at the margins of official Soviet planning — minor monuments that have rarely been treated as subjects of sustained photographic attention.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor collectors working across \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\" title=\"Browse our curated selection of photography books and photobooks\"\u003ePhotography \u0026amp; Photobooks\u003c\/a\u003e, brutalism, modernism, and Soviet design heritage, the book offers a focused and methodical object. Hoshino Ai's broader practice maps material culture, infrastructure, and the traces of political history embedded in everyday space — a concern that extends directly into her companion title \u003ca href=\"\/products\/soviet-transport-hoshino-ai-softcover\" title=\"Soviet Transport – a companion photobook by Hoshino Ai\"\u003eSoviet Transport\u003c\/a\u003e. Both titles are published by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/tokyo-kirara\" title=\"Explore the full Tokyo Kirara catalogue at Lokator100\"\u003eTokyo Kirara\u003c\/a\u003e and share the same observational, catalog-like rhythm.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tokyo Kirara","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52818678186330,"sku":"9784903883717","price":31.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/soviet-architectural-design-hoshino-ai-front-cover.jpg?v=1788854043"},{"product_id":"painting-toshio-shibata","title":"Painting – Toshio Shibata","description":"\u003ch2\u003e\n\u003cem\u003ePainting\u003c\/em\u003e — a leporello photobook by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/toshio-shibata\"\u003eToshio Shibata\u003c\/a\u003e, published by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/chose-commune\"\u003eChose Commune\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePainting\u003c\/em\u003e brings together 16 unpublished colour photographs by Toshio Shibata, gathered around constructed landscapes — drainage channels, artificial slopes, engineered terrain, and reshaped ground. Scale and horizon are held back; structure and surface come forward. Shibata studied painting before turning to photography, and that early formation is legible throughout: infrastructure is approached not as document but as composition, organised into fields of colour and geometry that draw concrete and rock toward the condition of a painted image.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe object matches its subject. \u003cem\u003ePainting\u003c\/em\u003e is a hardcover concertina of 20 pages, measuring 21 × 27 cm, that can be read as a sequential fold or opened flat into a single continuous surface. A ribbon on the spine allows it to be hung vertically, in the manner of a kakemono — the Japanese hanging scroll tradition — turning the sequence of photographs into a wall-mounted image rather than a paginated one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWorking with a large-format camera, Shibata produces images of exacting detail and deliberate framing, images that sit within the wider field of \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\"\u003ePhotography \u0026amp; Photobooks\u003c\/a\u003e and within the broader context of \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/japanese-photobooks\"\u003eJapanese photobook\u003c\/a\u003e publishing. Readers of this title may also want to look at \u003ca href=\"\/products\/boundary-hunt-toshio-shibata\"\u003eBoundary Hunt\u003c\/a\u003e, another study of Shibata's constructed landscapes. \u003cem\u003ePainting\u003c\/em\u003e is published in English and French as a first edition, dated 9 July 2021.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout Toshio Shibata\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBorn in Tokyo in 1949, \u003cstrong\u003eToshio Shibata\u003c\/strong\u003e (柴田敏雄) is a Japanese photographer whose work is grounded in the relationship between human engineering and natural terrain. Working with a large-format camera, he produces compositions of precise detail and deliberate framing — images in which conventional markers of scale and horizon are often suppressed in favour of structural clarity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShibata studied painting before moving into photography, and that formation shapes his approach to the constructed landscape: water management infrastructure, concrete channels, and reshaped landforms are treated not as documentary subjects but as formal fields — organised surfaces of colour, texture, and geometry. His photographs have been exhibited internationally and are held in significant museum collections.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chose Commune","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53380390945114,"sku":"9791096383245","price":60.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/painting-toshio-shibata-cover.jpg?v=1789666865"},{"product_id":"masahisa-fukase-1961-1991-retrospective","title":"Masahisa Fukase 1961–1991 Retrospective","description":"\u003ch2\u003eMasahisa Fukase 1961–1991 Retrospective\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/akaaka-art-publishing\"\u003eAkaaka Art Publishing\u003c\/a\u003e to accompany the exhibition of the same name at the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, held from 3 March to 4 June 2023, this volume was originally published on 3 March 2023. The copy described here is the fourth printing, dated 16 October 2025. It is a cloth hardcover of 216 pages, with texts in Japanese and English.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eEight series in one volume\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book gathers eight bodies of work from across three decades of \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/masahisa-fukase\"\u003eMasahisa Fukase\u003c\/a\u003e's practice: \u003cem\u003eYūgi \/ Homo Ludence\u003c\/em\u003e (from page 8), \u003cem\u003eYōko\u003c\/em\u003e (from page 44), \u003cem\u003eKarasu \/ Ravens\u003c\/em\u003e (from page 64), \u003cem\u003eSasuke\u003c\/em\u003e (from page 84), \u003cem\u003eKazoku \/ Family\u003c\/em\u003e (from page 96), \u003cem\u003eAruku me \/ Walking Eye\u003c\/em\u003e (from page 106), \u003cem\u003eShikei \/ Private Scenes\u003c\/em\u003e (from page 116), and \u003cem\u003eBukubuku\u003c\/em\u003e (from page 122). This is a retrospective selection, not a complete facsimile collection of the eight original photobooks; its purpose is to present the relationships between the series within a single publication.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eBeyond Ravens\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFukase's reputation rests largely on \u003cem\u003eRavens\u003c\/em\u003e, but his practice extended further, repeatedly turning the camera on his wife, family, and cat, and using those closest to him to examine his own position within the image. \u003cem\u003eYōko\u003c\/em\u003e had not appeared in photobook form since its original 1978 publication. In the later series, this focus shifts toward direct self-representation: in \u003cem\u003ePrivate Scenes\u003c\/em\u003e, Fukase includes himself within the frame; in \u003cem\u003eBukubuku\u003c\/em\u003e, he photographs himself underwater. Read within the \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/japanese-photobooks\"\u003eJapanese Photobooks\u003c\/a\u003e catalogue, the retrospective format gives these projects a continuity that single-series volumes cannot sustain on their own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eTexts, editors and production\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFollowing the image sections, the book includes an essay by Tomo Kosuga, Director of the Masahisa Fukase Archives, from page 129, and exhibition notes by Yoshiko Suzuki of the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum from page 154. The volume was edited by Kosuga, Suzuki, and Kaori Hamasaki, with translation by Christopher Stephens and, for pages 185–195, Kosuga. Book design is by Toshimasa Kimura and Genki Abe of Tanuki. Printing and binding were carried out by Hakkou Bijyutsu Co., Ltd. in Japan. A chronology, exhibition history, bibliography, and list of works are included as reference material, extending the book's use beyond an image-led photobook toward a compact research resource. Readers comparing this retrospective against single-series editions can consult \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\"\u003ePhotography Books \u0026amp; Photobooks\u003c\/a\u003e for the wider catalogue context.\u003c\/p\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":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/masahisa-fukase-1961-1991-retrospective-front-cover-yellow.jpg?v=1791970115"},{"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. It is a \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\" title=\"Explore the photobooks and artist publications collection\"\u003ephotobook\u003c\/a\u003e that works both as an instalment in the series and as an anomaly within Moriyama's broader body of work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eKey features\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFiftieth issue of Moriyama's \u003cem\u003eRecord\u003c\/em\u003e series, published 2022\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFocused entirely on a single subject, Yaco — an uncommon structure within the series\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePhotographs made in Ginza and Yurakucho, with additional indoor nude studies\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublished by Akio Nagasawa Publishing, Tokyo\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSoftcover, 280 × 210 mm, 120 pages\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBilingual texts in English and Japanese\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Akio Nagasawa Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53814789407066,"sku":"DM-RECORD50-ANP","price":40.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/3359\/1130\/files\/record-no-50-front-cover.jpg?v=1788963808"},{"product_id":"obi-and-sand-kyoto-enoshima-yoshio-mizoguchi","title":"Obi and Sand: Kyoto\/Enoshima - Yoshio Mizoguchi","description":"\u003ch2\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eObi and Sand: Kyoto\/Enoshima\u003c\/em\u003e — Two Locations, One Sustained Gaze\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eObi and Sand: Kyoto\/Enoshima\u003c\/em\u003e (帯と砂) is a signed 2024 hardcover photobook by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/yoshio-mizoguchi\" title=\"Browse all Yoshio Mizoguchi titles at Lokator100\"\u003eYoshio Mizoguchi\u003c\/a\u003e, published by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/sokyusha\" title=\"Browse all Sokyusha publications at Lokator100\"\u003eSokyusha\u003c\/a\u003e in Tokyo as a first edition, first printing, limited to 400 signed copies. Across 176 pages and 172 black-and-white images, the book moves between two settings photographed by Mizoguchi in the 1990s and 2000s — Kyoto and Enoshima — held together less by a shared subject than by a consistent method of looking.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Kyoto section is built from women and passersby set against the city's historical weight: a face turned mid-motion, cloth against skin, the particular density of light in older streets. Mizoguchi does not decorate the setting. The Enoshima section that follows shifts register entirely — bathing suits, black sand, sweat, and the looser time of a coastal summer replace the city's stillness. The two halves do not resolve into a single theme; instead, contrast itself becomes the organizing principle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat connects the sections is Mizoguchi's particular combination of documentary directness and proximate, unguarded attention. As he writes in the book's afterword, describing his return visits to Enoshima: bodies \"covered in black sand,\" heat, and the sense that \"the summer sea sadly fades away with memories of the hot sand.\" The erotic charge running through the work is observational rather than staged, arising from timing and closeness rather than composition for effect.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book was produced by Michitaka Ota and designed by Katsuya Kato, with English translation by Bonnie Pong-Wai Ma and printing and binding by SunM Color Co., Ltd. in Japan. It is presented in English and Japanese, and forms part of a small group of recent Mizoguchi publications that includes \u003ca href=\"\/products\/tokyo-on-the-brink-of-sanity-yoshio-mizoguchi\" title=\"Tokyo on the Brink of Sanity – another photobook by Yoshio Mizoguchi\"\u003eTokyo on the Brink of Sanity\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout Yoshio Mizoguchi\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYoshio Mizoguchi began photography as a self-taught practitioner in 1970. His published books include \u003cem\u003eHOTARU(FIREFLY)\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eDays of Smelling Like Grass\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003ca href=\"\/products\/tokyo-on-the-brink-of-sanity-yoshio-mizoguchi\" title=\"Tokyo on the Brink of Sanity – another photobook by Yoshio Mizoguchi\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eTokyo on the Brink of Sanity\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eObi and Sand: Kyoto\/Enoshima\u003c\/em\u003e. Across these works, he returns consistently to women, urban and semi-urban drift, and a tension between ordinariness and charged presence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat sensibility is especially clear here. Mizoguchi photographs bodies and passersby with unusual lightness, but the images never become casual. Even the most ordinary moments seem touched by heat, memory, and a slightly unstable emotional weather — which is what makes this book feel both immediate and lingering.\u003c\/p\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-yoshio-mizoguchi-cover-2.jpg?v=1789402167"},{"product_id":"naked-city-varanasi-takeshi-ishikawa","title":"Naked City Varanasi - Takeshi Ishikawa","description":"\u003ch2\u003eNaked City Varanasi — Takeshi Ishikawa's four-decade record of a city in contradiction\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNaked City Varanasi\u003c\/em\u003e is a 2020 photobook by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/takeshi-ishikawa\" title=\"Browse all Takeshi Ishikawa titles at Lokator100\"\u003eTakeshi Ishikawa\u003c\/a\u003e, published by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/sokyusha\" title=\"Explore the Sokyusha catalogue at Lokator100\"\u003eSokyusha\u003c\/a\u003e as a signed edition. It documents Varanasi through 95 photographs made across nearly four decades of return visits, beginning in 1980 — a body of work built from sustained presence rather than a single encounter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout the work\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book holds together subjects that resist easy categorization: pilgrims and ascetics, burning ghats and crowded alleys, the naked and the adorned, the living and the dead. Ishikawa does not reduce Varanasi to a single symbolic register. The photographs remain faithful to the city's internal contradictions — sacred and profane, rich and poor, devotion and its physical cost — without resolving them into a coherent thesis. That refusal of reduction is consistent throughout the sequence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe authority of the work comes in part from duration. Ishikawa's first visit was in 1980, and he returned almost every year for roughly four decades. The accumulation of that attention produces a visual record that is dense and specific rather than impressionistic. Contextual texts by Kenin Ito accompany the photographs, providing written grounding for the visual material.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWho this book is for\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis edition is relevant to collectors of Japanese \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/photography-photobooks\" title=\"Browse the photobook collection at Lokator100\"\u003ePhotobooks\u003c\/a\u003e, readers engaged with documentary photography and long-form photographic projects, and those with a specific interest in India, Varanasi, or the visual treatment of sacred and mortuary space. 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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. 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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. 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The book is bilingual, presented in Japanese and English across 72 pages, bound as a hardcover with white cloth boards and a tipped-on cover image. Its dimensions are 270 × 233 × 19 mm.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe volume does not confine itself to a single recent series. It draws on Yamamoto's practice from the early 1990s through to more recent work made with large-format cameras and glass wet plates, situating earlier photographs alongside later developments. The subjects recur across decades: birds, animals, trees, flowers, skies and landscapes, organized around Yamamoto's view of human life as continuous with the natural world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYamamoto's original photographs are made on film and printed in gelatin silver, then worked further through toning, scratching and the application of paint — treatments that give the source prints a handled, physical surface. These descriptions refer to the artworks reproduced within the book rather than to any physical alteration of the printed pages themselves. The visual logic owes something to Yamamoto's early training in painting and to his use of empty space; the accompanying texts draw a comparison to haiku, images that gesture toward a mood or scene without settling on one reading.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book includes an afterword from huko titled \"Echoes of Constructed Space,\" alongside an explanatory text written by Yamamoto for the gallery. Production is credited to Kazuya Sudo of discovery go inc., with design by Takahisa Suzuki of 16 Design Institute and printing by Fujiwara Printing Co., Ltd.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout Masao Yamamoto\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMasao Yamamoto (山本昌男) was born in 1957 in Gamagori City, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. He began his art training as a painter, studying oil painting under Goro Saito, before turning to photography. His practice is distinguished by small-format prints treated as individual physical objects — dyed, toned with tea, painted on, and torn — and by installations that arrange these prints to suggest a larger, cumulative view. 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Rather than presenting a straightforward sequence of landscape photographs, Haruka Fujita builds the book as a dialogue between photography and the pictorial language of Japanese sliding-screen and folding-screen painting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFujita began by photographing sliding panels covered in gold and silver leaf, sourced from an art-supply shop. These images were printed onto photographic paper, after which she layered further photographs — flowers, trees, birds and other natural subjects, shot on 4×5 film — onto the same sheets. The process was carried out by hand in the darkroom, allowing variations in tone, surface texture and the behaviour of the printing itself to enter the final images. The gold and silver leaf belongs to the panels she photographed as source material; it is not applied to the physical pages of the book, and the hand-printing refers to the making of Fujita's original images rather than to the production of the copies themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe resulting photographs combine dark grounds, layered colour and passages of open space. This visual structure extends into the book's physical form: bound as an accordion, or concertina, the connected pages unfold into a continuous sequence, echoing the relationship between individual painted scenes and a longer picture scroll.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished by HeHe in Tokyo, this is the 2025 second printing of a book originally issued in 2022. The edition runs to 72 unpaginated pages in a hardcover accordion binding measuring 190 × 151 mm, with colour illustrations throughout. 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The prints were produced by \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/benrido\"\u003eBenrido\u003c\/a\u003e in Kyoto using collotype, a gelatin-based printing process capable of reproducing subtle tonal transitions without a conventional halftone screen. Benrido describes the images as drawn from previously published photographs, chosen by the artist and reproduced with close attention to tone and texture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe six prints are supplied loose, housed in a portfolio case with a protective bag, rather than bound as pages. This allows each image to be handled, arranged, or framed individually. The set belongs to Benrido's \u003cstrong\u003eMini Portfolios\u003c\/strong\u003e series, conceived as a way to encounter the publisher's collotype work both in the hand and on display.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach sheet measures 203 × 254 mm, printed on Takeo Paper Matt Colour HG; the portfolio case measures 206 × 258 × 8 mm. An information leaflet on the collotype process, in English and Japanese, is included. This is an open-edition publication from 2020, produced and printed in Japan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor collectors following Yamamoto's work through \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/masao-yamamoto\"\u003eMasao Yamamoto\u003c\/a\u003e's wider catalogue, or interested in Japanese approaches to photographic print-making, the companion set \u003ca href=\"\/products\/birds-2-masao-yamamoto\"\u003eBirds 2\u003c\/a\u003e extends the same selection process and printing method. 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