Eric Chaim Kline, Bookseller

Koen [Park]

Kohei, Yoshiyuki

Tokyo: Seven Sha, 1980. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. Unpaginated. [114]pp. Original photographic dust-jacket over stiff wraps. A controversial volume of 74 photographs taken by Japanese photographer Kohei Yoshiyuki, who, using a 35mm camera, infrared film, and flash, documented people who gathered in several of Tokyo's parks at night for romantic rendezvous and the many spectators that lurked in the bushes to watch and sometimes participate. The photos are raw, voyeuristic and uncomfortable. Photographer Martin Parr commented that they perfectly capture "the loneliness, sadness, and desperation that so often accompany sexual or human relationships in a big, hard metropolis like Tokyo." True first edition with red bellyband / obi. Upper edge of dust-jacket partly creased and chipped. Minor rubbing along edges. Text in Japanese. Dust-jacket in overall good- to good, wraps in good, interior in very good condition. g. Item #32035

Price: $1,250.00