Underground generation (With vinyl and obi)

Kenji Kanesaka
Underground generation (With vinyl and obi)

Photographs: Kenji Kanesaka, Daido Moriyama, Eikoh Hosoe, Masahisa Fukase, Kishin Shinoyama and others.

Text: Akiho Hyuga, donald ritchie etc...

Publisher: Novel Shobo

120 pages

Pictures: 100

Year: 1968

Price: 3000 €

Comments: Soft cover under dust jacket, vinyl cover and obi, perfect binding, 28,4 x 22,1 cm, b&w photographs. In very good condition other a small tear on the vinyl cover at the top of the spine . Rare with vinyl and obi.

In Underground Generation, Kenji Kanesaka brought together the work of various photographers, artists and perfor-mers working in the Tökyõ district of Shinjuku.
At the time, Kanesaka's artistic output was mainly that of a "video artist" (to use today's terminology), but he also worked hard to introduce hippie culture to Japan, particularly in its spiritual and political aspects. This volume is in keeping with his ambitions, as Kanesaka created a pastiche of the Japanese art world:
This ungura - short for "underground" - could exist thanks to the dynamism of the cultural movement embodied by young people.

excerp from Ryuchi Kaneko "THE JAPANESE PHOTOBOOKS FROM 1960 TO 1970"