New, Unopened Takuma Nakahira "Hanran" / Exhibition Catalog Book Artbook Photobook

New, Unopened
Takuma Nakahira: Hanran / Exhibition Catalog

While the hardcover edition has been widely published, the softcover is considered rare.

I believe the softcover edition is more straightforward, with its wrinkled binding and the kanji typeface. I purchased two copies for my collection, but I am selling one due to financial difficulties.

[Product Details]
Publisher: Case Publishing
Takuma Nakahira, a legendary photographer who shines brightly in post-war Japanese photography history. The lifelong rival of Daido Moriyama.
The entirety and details of his 1974 installation work, "Hanran," are revived for the first time in print.

"Hanran" is an installation work consisting of 48 color photographs, created and exhibited by Takuma Nakahira for the "15 Photographers" exhibition (Tokyo National Museum of Modern Art) in 1974, measuring 6 meters horizontally and 1.6 meters vertically.

Climbing ivy, manholes on the road, the tires of large trucks, sharks in a tank seen through glass, subway stations... The photographs of "Hanran" are fragments of the city that the photographer encountered and captured daily—they are also eerie fissures in the urban space where information, goods, and things overflow. In this book, to present the installation within the constraints of a photo book, a layout that strictly reproduces the arrangement of the works in the exhibition is attempted, with multiple images interfering with each other on the pages.

Size: 364 x 257 mm
Number of pages: 64
Binding: Softcover
Published: 2018
Languages: English, Japanese