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SHIGENE KANAMARU (ed.)
Shinko shashin no tsukurikata -- The Making of Modern Photography. Tokyo: Genkosha, 1932.
Quarto (258 x 189mm). Title printed in black and yellow. 48 black and white plates, illustrated throughout. (A very few leaves with light marginal soiling.) Original illustrated boards, blue endpapers (without the rare slipcase, light wear to the spine).
FIRST EDITION. 'THE INSPIRATION BEHIND MODERN JAPANESE PHOTOGRAPHY'; 'this book caused a sensation amongst photographers when it was published and gave Japan a new photographic vocabulary to work with, starting with the term "shinkoshashin" (modern photography) which came to be used for the new movement' (Boeder). Includes photographs by avant-garde artists published for the first time in Japan: Moholy-Nagy, Man Ray, Renger-Patzsch, and others. Rare: ABPC records no copy sold at auction; no copy in WorldCat. Boeder, Japanese Photography from the Pre-War Period, 66.
Shinko shashin no tsukurikata -- The Making of Modern Photography. Tokyo: Genkosha, 1932.
Quarto (258 x 189mm). Title printed in black and yellow. 48 black and white plates, illustrated throughout. (A very few leaves with light marginal soiling.) Original illustrated boards, blue endpapers (without the rare slipcase, light wear to the spine).
FIRST EDITION. 'THE INSPIRATION BEHIND MODERN JAPANESE PHOTOGRAPHY'; 'this book caused a sensation amongst photographers when it was published and gave Japan a new photographic vocabulary to work with, starting with the term "shinkoshashin" (modern photography) which came to be used for the new movement' (Boeder). Includes photographs by avant-garde artists published for the first time in Japan: Moholy-Nagy, Man Ray, Renger-Patzsch, and others. Rare: ABPC records no copy sold at auction; no copy in WorldCat. Boeder, Japanese Photography from the Pre-War Period, 66.
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