Tokyoites (Tokyo-Jin)

Yutaka Takanashi
Tokyoites (Tokyo-Jin)

Photographs: Yutaka Takanashi

Text: Michel Butor

Publisher: Shoshi Yamada

36 pages

Year: 1983

Comments: 2 thin black books in one beige cover with paraffin paper inserted alternately into each pages, which is covered with original boards, and 2 original paper booklets, all of these are housed in original slipcase with original band (obi), 240 x 260 mm. First edition, 1983. Black & white photographs. Slipcase a little faded but books and plates are still intact and in very good condition. Very scarce and collectible copy !

Tokyo-Jin is Takanashi's first important serie dedicated to the city of Tokyo. On the street or in the subways, the people Takanashi photographed are witnesses to the changes of japanese post war...