Journey to the Tobacco Shop on the Corner Special Edition (Signed, edt of 50 with original print)

Issei Suda
Journey to the Tobacco Shop on the Corner Special Edition (Signed, edt of 50 with original print)

Photographs: Issei Suda

Publisher: Place M

102 pages

Year: 2011

Price: 600 €

Comments: Hardcover with dust jacket housed in a slipcase, 21 x 29 cm. Includes an original signed and numbered gelatin print of 20.3 × 25.4 cm on baryta paper. This is the limited, signed edition of 50. In excellent condition!

First published in 2001, this special edition published by the original publishers, Place M, brings together Issei Suda's iconic photographic illustration of his metaphorical journey through his surrounding neighborhood. Taken during the 1980s whilst Issei Suda was admitted to the hospital for a brief period, the photographs within this publication reflect both his time spent confined to the hospital room as well as his own documentation of the spaces most familiar to him. What is so elegantly explored within this publication is the symbolic representation of the beauty within the simple exploration and understanding of a space more familiar and less grand. A journey through the intimate and inner awareness one has within the spaces where the everyday and the banal are played out across the changing landscapes of a place which resonates all of which that surrounds the notionhome.