• Front cover of “Walk while ye have the light” by Yoshiichi Hara with a small black-and-white city photograph and the title in Japanese and English.
  • Close-up of the spine of Yoshiichi Hara’s photobook “Walk while ye have the light” with the Japanese and English title stamped in white on the grey cover.
  • Spread from “Walk while ye have the light” showing a hazy sky with a single hanging banner and a glowing decorative tree in a dark room.
  • Inside page from “Walk while ye have the light” with a close-up of an outstretched arm reaching past a stone surface toward delicate stems and flowers.
  • Spread from “Walk while ye have the light” featuring a figure floating in rippling water above and a dark interior with a row of upright objects in a shop window below.
  • Spread from “Walk while ye have the light” showing intersecting overhead power lines in the sky and a wet bridge with a railing leading into the distance.
  • Spread from “Walk while ye have the light” with an abstract collage of a human body to the left and a metal wire sphere against trees to the right.
  • Spread from “Walk while ye have the light” depicting a small dead animal on the road and a dimly lit building with trees at night.
  • Spread from “Walk while ye have the light” showing the body of a saddled white horse on the left and a hand extending a small bunch of flowers on the right.
  • Spread from “Walk while ye have the light” with a partially dressed figure standing in a domestic interior and a view of a small town roundabout with a bare tree.
  • Spread from “Walk while ye have the light” showing a crowded casino table under bright strip lights above and a quiet seascape with a dark shoreline and pale sky below.
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Yoshiichi Hara | Sokyusha

Walk while ye have the light - Yoshiichi Hara

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A poetic photobook by Japanese cult photographer Yoshiichi Hara, “Walk while ye have the light” continues the black-and-white world of Dark of True with intimate street and nude portraits that drift between light and darkness, reality and illusion.

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About the Book

Published by Sokyusha in 2011, Walk while ye have the light is the long-awaited follow-up to Yoshiichi Hara’s seminal photobook Dark of True (2008), extending his exploration of a bewitching world that constantly crosses the boundary between truth and falsehood. Taking its title from the Bible verse “Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you” (John 12:35), the book treats photography as a search for enlightenment – an act close to silent prayer with a camera. Across 63 photographs on 68 pages, Hara records night streets, rainy riverbanks, glistening pavements and fragmentary bodies; light shimmers in water, blurs outlines and turns everyday scenes into dream-like visions that seem to float between past, present and future. The 260 × 232 mm hardcover, printed in monochrome, has become scarce and is often listed as out of stock or “rare”, making it a coveted title for collectors of Japanese photobooks, nude and snapshot portraiture, and fans of Hara’s earlier works such as Mandala Zukan and Dark of True.

About the Author

Yoshiichi Hara (1948–2019) was a Tokyo-born photographer who studied at the Chiyoda Design Photography Academy and became a cult figure of Japanese post-war photography through his uncompromising images of strippers, hostesses and nightlife. From the 1970s onward he self-published and released landmark books such as Fubaika, My Gypsy Rose, Stripper Zukan and the monumental Mandala Zukan, fusing eroticism, stage and street into dense black-and-white sequences. Later works like Dark of True, Walk while ye have the light and Tokoyo no Mushi shift towards quieter, rain-soaked cityscapes and everyday gestures where light, water and memory intertwine. Hara received major recognition including the 17th Taiyosho Award (1980), the 24th Shashin no Kai Award (2012) and the Photographic Society of Japan’s Lifetime Achievement Award (2015), and is today regarded as one of the most distinctive voices in Japanese photography.

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Weight: 0.6 kg

Publisher / Manufacturer: Sokyusha
Country of origin: Japan

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