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Hardcover with dust jacket. Navy boards with illustrated purple endpapers.12.75 x 9.75 in. Text in Dutch and English. This book is #1 in the series of 15 books titled Monographs on Dutch photographers. During his brief photographic career Sannes became renowned for his erotic imagery, his fascination with women and seduction. The photographs recall the atmosphere of the sixties, which allowed him to experiment with his approach to photography of the female form. After his untimely death at the age of 30, with a photographic career of only eight years, Sannes' oeuvre is still on par with internationally acclaimed Dutch photographers such Ed van der Elsken. Jim Hughes, Camera 35 Editor wrote: "Sannes, a controversial Dutch photographer, did not make easy photographs. Certainly, he did not make pretty photographs. I'm not even sure he made photographs. He made explorations of people, of their outsides and their insides, and sent back picture postcards of their psyches." USA customers please NOTE: We ship… Read More

First and only edition. 20 offset color postcards . Condition: Fine. Writer, filmmaker and photographer Shuji Terayama (1935-1983) produced a body of photographic work that is surreal, strange and highly provocative. This set of 20 postcards scenes from Terayama s well-known avant-garde theater troupe Tenjo Sanjiki corresponds to images also reproduced in the book Mysterious Finder (2008), a publication commemorating the 25th anniversary of Terayama's death. Each postcard: 14.8 x 10 cm. NOTE: We ship our books only via USPS Media Mail (with insurance & tracking). International (ie, non-USA) customers please NOTE: The standard shipping cost quoted by Biblio is often much less than the actual shipping cost (with insurance & tracking). When you place your order, Ipy Books will first notify you as to the actual shipping cost; you can then determine whether you want to pay for your order.

Fine condition. Illustrated boards with dust jacket and obi (bellyband). 7.4 x 10.25 in. Collection of B&W and color photographs by Suzuki of Tokyo and its people, parks and environs taken in the 1980s. Wonderful photographs and book design by one of the great under-appreciated Japanese photographers. Suzuki was a graphic designer, sign painter and photography teacher whose better known student was Shigeo Gocho. NOTE: We ship our books only via USPS Media Mail (with insurance & tracking). International (ie, non-USA) customers please NOTE: The standard shipping cost quoted by Biblio is often much less than the actual shipping cost (with insurance & tracking). When you place your order, Ipy Books will first notify you as to the actual shipping cost; you can then determine whether you want to pay for your order.

First German (book club) edition, first and only printing, hardcover. Illustrated throughout in black-and-white, black-and-white pictorial endpapers, black embossed boards with illustrated dust jacket with red type in protective plastic wrapper. 208 pages, 153 images, 11.5 x 11.5 inches. Text and design by Ed van der Elsken. … Embarking on a fourteen-month world tour [was an] ambitious challenge [undertaken] in 1959 by the Dutch photographer Ed van der Elsken and his wife Gerda. The resulting photographs would turn into one of the most epic Dutch photobooks ever produced, Sweet Life … Their travels would cover West Africa, the Malay Peninsula, the Philippines, Japan, Hong Kong, the United States and Mexico. Van der Elsken found his stride photographing in the streets of each major city or backwater … Today, for historians and those lucky enough to see a copy firsthand, Sweet Life is admired and celebrated for its cinematic energy, raw style, and gritty in-your-face design reminiscent of another… Read More