Dec 07, 2006 - Sale 2097

Sale 2097 - Lot 249

Price Realized: $ 780
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(PROVOKE.) The Japanese Box. Edited by Christoph Schifferli. With facsimile reprints of six rare photographic publications of the Provoke era, with a descriptive pamphlet by Schifferli laid in. Thick 4to-sized printed black wooden box with metal clasps, and with the printed title and edition label inside lid; contents loose as issued. one of 1500 numbered copies in a black wooden box. Paris: Edition 7L/Steidl, (2001)

Additional Details

A handsomely packaged select group of facsimile publications from a seminal period in Japanese photography. Includes: 3 issues of "Provoke" magazine (1968-1970); Takuma Nakahira's for a language to come (1970); Araki's sentimental journey (1971); and Moriyama's A Farewell to Photography (1972).

The contents are wrapped in black handmade paper, with 2 thick pink rubber bands, one of which is marked "Japanese Box." Designed by Gerhard Steidl and Karl Lagerfeld.