Lot 98: KIKUJI KAWADA

Chizu -- The Map. Tokyo: Bijutsu Shuppansha, 1965. 8° (230 x 150mm). 49 black and white photographs, 23 4-panel black and white gatefolds, folded broadside on brown paper laid-in (a very few leaves loose, as often). Original black-paper covered boards, original illustrated dust-jacket, printed recto and verso, original printed die-cut paper chemise, original printed cardboard slipcase (dust-jacket spine head with short closed tears, very small chip at foot, slipcase with light wear).

FIRST EDITION, RARE. 'NO PHOTOBOOK HAS BEEN MORE SUCCESSFUL IN COMBINING GRAPHIC DESIGN WITH COMPLEX PHOTOGRAPHIC NARRATIVE'; 'Kawada's photographs are a masterly amalgam of abstraction and realism... in the central metaphor of the map, and specifically, in the idea of the map as a series of interlocking trace marks, Kawada has conjured up a brilliant simile for the photograph itself - scientific record, memory trace, cultural repository, puzzle and guide' (The Photobook). Design by Sugiura Kohei. 1 of 700 copies, the entire edition. The Photobook, pp.286-87 ('THE ULTIMATE PHOTOBOOK-AS-OBJECT'); 101 Books, pp.174-77 ('AN EXTRAORDINARILY REFINED, AVANT-GARDE BOOK OBJECT'); The Open Book, pp.212-13.

No VAT on hammer price or buyer's premium.