Tokyo ereji [Photo-theater: Tokyo Elegy].

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This work was initially scheduled for publication in 1972 but wasn't realised. Araki edited the sequences himself, and many bear a resemblance to frames from a film with their use of sequential photographs. In her essay for the catalogue that accompanied For a New Language to Come, an exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Rachel Hooper discusses how Araki studied filmmaking, so a visual language involving a progression of scenes came naturally to him. The most well-known sequence in Tokyo Elegy is the one which contains photographs of the funeral of Araki's father, Chotaro, who died in 1967. First edition; (235 x 186 mm, 9¼ x 7¼ in); 29 colour and 1017 black-and-white photographs; double black endpapers, glossy black wrappers with flaps, printed in white and grey, illustrated dust-jacket, off-white, printed in black, grey and red; light wear and toning, publisher's black and white wraparound band; light wear. A very good copy; [ii], 268pp. Araki: Self, Life, Death, p695; A Book of Araki Books! 82-6; For a New World to Come: Experiments in Japanese Art and Photography 1968-1979, pp162-167 (Exhibition checklist 27).

• Binding: Hardcover

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