HOSOE, EIKOH.
Eikoh Hosoe, Flowers of Evil (21st Editions).
Photographs and afterword by Eikoh Hosoe. French translations of Charles Baudelaire's poems and introduction by John Wood. Beautifully illustrated with 10 platinum prints by Hosoe. Folio, hand-crafted binding of matte black anodized aluminum boards with Japanese title printed in glossy black on the cover, with a black leather spine (no dust jacket as issued); housed in a deep purple-red raw silk-covered clamshell box (18 1/4x15 1/4 inches) with magnetized hinged clasp and title stamped in black, lined with red velvet and with Japanese title blind-stamped inside the lid; also with the original wooden case. platinum edition, one of 65 numbered and 5 lettered copies issued with a photograph.
(South Dennis, Massachusetts): 21st Editions/Steven Albahari, (2006)