Lot 187: YUTAKA TAKANASHI

Toshi-e -- Towards the City. Tokyo: for the author, 1974. 2 vols. 2° (420 x 280mm) and 4° (257 x 183mm). 62 black and white photographs, and 54 black and white photographs. Original black cloth with metal disk mounted on the front cover, spine blocked in white, smaller volume in original black wrappers, printed paper label on cover, original black cardboard clamshell box, printed paper label on spine overlapping on front cover (metal disk with light soiling as often, short tear to label on clamshell box).

FIRST EDITION, A VERY GOOD COPY OF THE LAST AND 'MOST LUXURIOUS' OF THE PROVOKE BOOKS, by one of its founding members; taking as his theme the cost paid by Japan for unbridled consumerism, 'Takanashi addresses this complex question with lyrical passion' (The Photobook). The Photobook, p.302.

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