Dec 11, 2008 - Sale 2166

Sale 2166 - Lot 132

Price Realized: $ 2,160
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,800 - $ 2,200
KANESAKA, KENJI. Underground Generation. Edited by Kenji Kanesaka with Takuma Nakahira. Graphically illustrated with reproductions of early photographs by noted photographers daido moriyama, masahisa fukase, eikoh hosoe, kishin shinoyama, jun morinaga, and hitomi watanabe, among others. 4to, photo-pictorial and metallic flexible boards, creases to front and rear covers. first edition. (Nobel Sha), (1968)

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Influenced by Andy Warhol's "Index Book," which was published the previous year, this publication is a product of the artists' collective called The Underground, which served as a powerful force in Japanese photography, and was, perhaps, best personified in the magazine Provoke.