A fine day / Hareta Hi (SIGNED)

Kishin Shinoyama
A fine day / Hareta Hi (SIGNED)

Photographs: Kishin Shinoyama

Publisher: Heibonsha

348 pages

Year: 1975

Comments: Hardcover, 29,5 x 23 cm, color photographs. First edition. The acetate dust jacket is missing. In good condition with a bump on the front cover and spots on the first few pages and last ones (see pictures). Signed by Kishin Shinoyama. Mentioned in Parr & Badger.

"A fascinating early book by Kishin Shinoyama, who has become one of Japan's best-known commercial photographers… Shinoyama's book consists of 23 photographic sequences of around 10 photographs each… They range from studio portraits of Japanese women to landscapes in which the weather features prominently, to images of such figures as Richard Nixon. The element linking the images turns out to be the fact that each sequence comments on a different event that took place in 1974… There seems to be no real link between the events depicted here except that they were chosen. The same may be said of the photographs themselves. The primary link between them was not that Shinoyama took them, but that he included them in this baffling, hypnotic book"

- Martin Parr and Gerry Badger, The Photobook: A History, Volume I.