Last Year's Photographs
Photographs by Nobuyoshi Araki
Hidden away in a box labelled Last Year’s Photographs, 38 pictures Nobuyoshi Araki took between 1975 and 1976 spent a quiet life, surfacing as a time capsule of the Japanese photographer’s early work.
About the Limited Edition:
The special, hardcover edition of Araki’s Last Year’s Photographs is limited to 500 unsigned copies and comes in a case made after the original box the photos were stored in for over 40 years (pictured below).
photo-eye is taking pre-orders for copies of Last Year's Photographs. If our supplier runs out, orders will be fulfilled in the order in which they are received. The cutoff time for ordering in our shipment is Tuesday, April 19th at 12:00 PM MDT.
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Scandinavian Mushroom
Photographs by Takashi Homma
Takashi Homma's Scandinavian Mushroom is a photographic tribute to Ed Ruscha's artist books created in the late 60s and early 70s. Taking reference to Ruscha's Coloured People published in 1972, Takashi Homma's Scandinavian Mushroom is a collection of photographs which capture a variety of wild mushrooms grown in the forests of Fukushima. Collecting several specimens of radioactive fungus, Homma's photographs resonate aesthetically to the same white background and photographic style used in Coloured People bringing forward Homma's own contextual narrative to the homage.
photo-eye is taking pre-orders for copies of Scandinavian Mushroom. If our supplier runs out, orders will be fulfilled in the order in which they are received. The cutoff time for ordering in our shipment is Tuesday, April 19th at 12:00 PM MDT.
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ARRIVING SOON
Neko yo Sayonara (Farewell, cats) — SIGNED
Photographs by Mayayuki Nakaya
Signed copies available to order!
Within this publication is a collection of photographs which playfully depict a series of portraits of cats and the city scape of Tokyo. Here Nakaya presents an exploration into the landscape of the city to each reader through the distinct and individual portraitures of the cats, taking the reader along an amusing journey of hide and seek which is both visually playful and reflective of the very nature and personalities of the photographed subject.
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Undergrowth — SIGNED
Photographs by Shoko Hashimoto
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"I pushed my way through the swirling sea of grass. The darkness beneath the thick ivy soothed me. Whenever my parents scolded me, whenever I felt a sense of failure, I would think 'Ah, I'm all alone,' and go there to hide. It was such a scary place. One day, the smell of chestnuts in the bush told me that I had grown up." — Shoko Hashimoto
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