Maybe, maybe (WITH VINTAGE DEDICATION)

Koichi Inakoshi
Maybe, maybe (WITH VINTAGE DEDICATION)

Photographs: Inakoshi Koichi

Text: Key Hasegawa

Publisher: Kuyryudo

Pictures: 44

Year: 1971

Comments: Hardcover under dust jacket with its rare slipcase, 230 x 245 mm. First edition, 1971. Black & white photographs. Little traces of foxing and edgewear on slipcase. The book is in excellent condition ! Reproductions very fine. With vintage dedication by Inakoshi Koichi ! Dated in the year of publication. Scarce and collectible copy !

A collection of moody black and white images shot in America, many in New York. The pictures have been printed in a dark gravure, with some shots bordering on conceptual, while others capture the bleak reality of American pessimism, especially as it relates to the Vietnam War. Reminiscent of the vein of Japanese photography popularized by Shigeo Gocho and Kiyoshi Suzuki, but with the lens turned outside Japan.