Toshi Ha Yume Mizu (City Doesn't Dream)

Yutaka Takanashi
Toshi Ha Yume Mizu (City Doesn't Dream)

Photographs: Yutaka Takanashi

Text: Takahiko Okada

Publisher: Shoshi Yamada

91 pages

Pictures: 11

Year: 1979

Comments: Softcover in publisher’s printed slipcase, Obi is missing, 23 x 18 cm, b&w photographs. First edition. In very good condition, other than light blue staining on the cover due to staying in the slipcase which has a blue interior.

A fine collaboration, originally published in the magazine Ryuko Tsushin (Fashion Communication) in May-December 1978, between the poet and critic Takahiko Okada and the photographer Yutaka Takanashi, both founding members of the famous and short-lived movement and magazine Provoke. The pictures have a heavy "photocopy" / "xerox" touch, are perfectly in the spirit of the late avant-garde magazine, and voluntarily contrast with the perfect crafting of the volume by the famous editor Shoshi Yamada.