{"product_id":"kitajima-keizo-photo-express-tokyo-no-2-1979","title":"Keizō Kitajima — Photo Express Tokyo No. 2, February 1979","description":"\u003cp\u003eTokyo, February 1979\u003cbr\u003eSoftcover photographic booklet\u003cbr\u003e16 pp.\u003cbr\u003e25.8 × 18.3 cm\u003cbr\u003eBlack-and-white offset print with spot colour\u003cbr\u003e200 yen cover price\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSecond issue from Keizō Kitajima’s \u003cem\u003ePhoto Express Tokyo\u003c\/em\u003e, a twelve-part sequence of monthly photographic booklets published in 1979 in connection with his year-long exhibition project at CAMP gallery, Tokyo. Each issue contained sixteen pages and operated as both publication and immediate extension of the exhibition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe images are high-contrast, nocturnal, unstable. Figures emerge through flash, grain, clothing, cigarette smoke, sunglasses, surface glare. Tokyo appears less as city than as printed impact: bodies pressed into black ink, social space reduced to gesture, pose, and exposure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe cover gives the structure clearly: Tokyo, No. 2, February 1979, 200 yen. The publication is not a later photobook in the conventional sense, but a fast object — made to circulate close to the time of the photographs and the exhibition itself. The booklet format keeps the work provisional, serial, and disposable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Good. Surface rubbing, creasing, edge wear, and handling marks throughout. Stapled spine intact. General wear consistent with age and circulation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA printed fragment from one of the key late-1970s Japanese photobook projects: serial, urban, immediate, and already half-consumed by its own reproduction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis appears to be an original 1979 issue, not the 2012 Steidl\/Le Bal facsimile, based on the single No. 2 booklet format, 200 yen cover price, period wear, and absence of slipcase, ISBN, or reprint markings. The 2012 edition reissued all twelve booklets as a facsimile set in slipcase. Offered as “apparently first issue” pending colophon confirmation.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginal period item, apparently first issue.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CAMP Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53289130983762,"sku":"KITAJIMA-PET-02-1979","price":50.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Kitajima_-Keizo.-1979-Photo-Express-Tokyo---back-cover.jpg?v=1777192178","url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/products\/kitajima-keizo-photo-express-tokyo-no-2-1979","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}