Benjo /Toilet

Yoshio Takase
Benjo /Toilet
Photographs: Yoshio Takase
Publisher: Fukusha Shudan Geribara 5
104 pages
Year: 1971
Comments: Softcover, 250 x 180 mm. First edition, 1971. Black & white photographs. Text in japanese. Included in The Photobook by Parr & Badger, vol.1, p.196. Minor wear. In very good condition.
Benjo/Toilet is one of the first publications of Geribara (litterally "geri" means "diarrhea" in japanese and "bara" "belly"), an avant-garde group of 5 artists which include Yoshio Takase, Ikeda Fukuo, Nobuyoshi Araki, Yaehata Koji & Morisawa Masmitsu. In this book, they make fun of common sense, for instance taking pictures of dirty toilets while it is common to think japanese toilets are clean. They also use absurd sentences, in a dada spirit, addressed to people : "Please let us touch your wonderful mask. Let us leak you. Geribara wants you to be kind to us even if it is not easy". Benjo is a joyfull cry of nonsense and a funny act of subculture.









more books tagged »parr & badger« | >> see all
-
Shashin yo sayonara / Bye Bye Photography (SIGNED)
by Daido Moriyama
sold -
Z.z.(t) vol 1 & 2
by Dirk Braeckman
sold -
Man and Woman (SIGNED)
by Eikoh Hosoe
sold -
Valparaiso
by Sergio Larrain
sold -
I want to take picture (signed)
by Bill Burke
Euro 90 -
London
by Axel Hütte
sold
more books tagged »japanese« | >> see all
-
Blackout
by Hitoshi Fugo
sold -
Oretachi, dokonimo Irarenai / We cannot stay anywhere
by Joji Hashiguchi
sold -
HOME
by Tomoyuki Sakaguchi
sold -
Oretachi, dokonimo Irarenai / We cannot stay anywhere
by Joji Hashiguchi
sold -
Laying Stones (Signed)
by Munemasa Takahashi
sold -
Photo-Novel : A Senti Roman
by Nobuyoshi Araki
sold
more books tagged »nobuyoshi araki« | >> see all
-
Sentimental Journey
by Nobuyoshi Araki
sold -
Imshun
by Nobuyoshi Araki
sold -
Mirai no sei
by Collective
sold -
Shashin-Ron
by Nobuyoshi Araki
sold -
Blue Period/ Last Summer
by Nobuyoshi Araki
sold -
Workshop No. 5-8
by Collective
sold
more books tagged »subculture« | >> see all
-
Where is '69 Shinjuku Kaminari Zoku
by Fumiaki Fukada
sold -
Sex a gogo
by Sanne Sannes
sold -
Doris
by Gunter Rambow
sold -
Adrenamix (Signed)
by Ryuichi Ishikawa
sold -
Zonen
by Esaias Baitel
Euro 300 -
I Wanna be me
by Collective
sold
more books tagged »Yoshio Takase« | >> see all
Books from the Virtual Bookshelf josefchladek.com