May 18, 2006 - Sale 2080

Sale 2080 - Lot 391

Price Realized: $ 2,070
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
KAWADA, KIKUJI. Sacre Atavism. llustrated with reproductions of Kawada's spiritual photographs. Square 4to, stamped red cloth; rectilinear impression on pages at the front of the book; photo-pictorial red boards slipcase; with original enclosure. first edition. Tokyo, 1971

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Award-winning Japanese photographer, Kikuji Kawada (1933-) was "discovered" by Ken Domon and Ihei Kimura, when he submitted a photo to a contest. He became a freelance photographer; and founded the Vivo group, along with Eikoh Hosoe, Ikko Narahara, Daido Moriyama, Shomei Tomatsu, and others. "I seek for the analogical power and the enlargement of consciousness in photography" - Kikuji Kawada. This is the photographer's second book.