Man and Woman (SIGNED)

Eikoh Hosoe
Man and Woman (SIGNED)

Photographs: Eikoh Hosoe

Text: Taro Yamamoto, Ed Van Der Elsken, Tatsuo Fukushima

Publisher: Nadiff

60 pages

Pictures: 33

Year: 2006

Comments: Hardcover under dust jacket, in a slipcase, with obi, 250 x 190 mm. Facsimile Reprint, 2006. Text in japanese. In pristine condition. Ref Parr & Bager vol 1 p 279 ; Bertolotti, p.158. Signed copy.

A vital, long awaited reprint (original first edition: 1961) on the occasion of the 2006 solo exhibition “The World of Eikoh Hosoe” at the Metropolitan Museum of Photography in Tokyo. We can feel his devotion for surrealism and his love for the dance expression. This book is very important and novator cause of the graphism of the book and the contrast between the strong gravure and the powerfull colors of the text pages. Also when the book is fully open we can see a yellow frame all around the pictures due to the yellow cardboard. After seeing that book Van der Elsken was so impressed cause of the pictures and the quality of the high printing than he asked Hosoe to show him his printer. Some years later sweet life will be publish with the same gravure type.