HOSOE EIKOH Kamaitachi

Sale 2180 - Lot 60

Unsold

Estimate: $ 3,500 - $ 4,500

HOSOE, EIKOH.
Kamaitachi.
Dance by Tatsumi Hijikata. Preface by Shuzo Takiguchi. Design by Ikko Tanaka. Illustrated with 33 richly printed black-and-white gatefold reproductions of Hosoe's photographs. Folio, black-and-white printed cloth, age-darkened; acetate dust jacket, in expertly repaired tear to front panel; printed card slipcase, rear board creased twice. Parr/Badger I 284; Hasselblad 248; Auer 497. first edition.
(Tokyo): (Gendaishicho-sha), (1969)

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Hosoe's Kamaitachi, a lavishly produced book with rich, dark photogravures and bright blue gatefolds, is predicated not only on Hosoe's retelling and re-imagining of the beguiling and bewitching weasel-like demon that haunts rice fields and slashes humans on encounter, but also on the fundamental experience of looking at the book. Each illustration must be uncovered and opened, and the sharp contrast between the blue and shades of blacks and grays adds to the theatricality of Hosoe's vision and photographs.