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Embrace BY Eikoh HOSOE

Creator: Eikoh HOSOE
Offered by: Shapero Gallery

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HOSOE, Eikoh.

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Embrace.
Stock Code 111945
Tokyo, Shashin Hyoronsha Publishing House, 1971

Current price£875.00
Signed. Signed copy of Hosoe Eikoh's Embrace. This book develops ideas from his 1961 book Otoko to Onna / Man and Woman. It explores the relationship between men and women in a series of abstract close-ups in which the female body is bleached to white in contrast with the darker tone of the male.

First edition, signed on the first page; folio (356 x 253 mm, 14 x 10 in); black-and-white photographs printed in gravure by Nissha Printing Co., preface by Mishima Yukio, design and layout by Eikoh Hosoe; black endpapers, black cloth-covered boards, titles stamped in white on spine and sides, printed dust-jacket, black and pink, publisher's cardboard slipcase with title label in black and white and orange printed wraparound band, fine; [96]pp.

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Documentation:	Documented elsewhere (similar item)
Period:	1950-1979
Condition:	Good.
Styles / Movements:	Modern
Dealer Reference #:	111945
Incollect Reference #:	713842

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