Suichokujo no, Ryoiki / Perpendicularly,Territory (SIGNED)

Hitoshi Tsukiji
Suichokujo no, Ryoiki / Perpendicularly,Territory (SIGNED)

Photographs: Hitoshi Tsukiji

Text: Hitoshi Tsukiji

Publisher: Self-published

48 pages

Pictures: 37

Year: 1975

Comments: Softcover, 2 interleaved volumes, saddle-stitched and pasted in to plain black bi-fold card covers, 195 x 225 mm. Black printed obi as issued. First edition, 1975. Text in japanese. Limited edition of 500 copies. Beautiful designed by Nobuyoshi Kikuchi. Included in Ivan Vartanian and Ryuichi Kaneko's The Japanese Photobooks of the 1960's and 1970's, p.196-199. In perfect shape ! Very scarce with obi and collectible copy. Signed !

The photographs were taken mostly in Tokyo and Yokohama, as well as other nearby cities. Although the subjects of his photographs are vague, the images have a hard-edged sharpness, betraying a predilection toward clearly defined forms and shapes… Tsukiji’s style of photography tends toward the naive, but at the same time his work is highly evocative of the 1970s—quite in keeping with the work commonly seen at this time. This style also evokes Tsukiji’s ideas of what photography meant to him. The photography has a snapshot feel, suggesting that anything can be a subject of photography

Ivan Vartanian and Ryuichi Kaneko, Japanese Photobooks of the 1960s and 1970s