Accident, 2011

A$2,500 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Tokyo : Goliga, 2011. Artist s book, 360 x 260 mm (closed) each book has 80 Pages that are comprised of 40 individual sheets folded and bound together in an accordion format. All sheets are printed single-sided with tritone silk screening on 220 kg paper stock. A mixture of two varieties of the same paper have been used—one white and one black. Cloth-covered front and back boards. The exterior case cloth-covered and illustrated. Silk Screen printing by Editions Works, Tokyo. the publisher. Limited to 40 copies signed and numbered by Moriyama, this is number 23. Provenance : Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan The Gene Brian Sherman Collection, Sydney Exhibited: Go East: The Gene Brian Sherman Contemporary Asian Art Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 14 May 26 July 2015 Daido Moriyama Photobook ACCIDENT installation , Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, 22 September 22 October 2011 (another example) Reference: Go East: The Gene Brian Sherman Contemporary Asian Art Collection, Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation and the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2015, p. 115 (illus.), pp. 227, 236 (illus.) In the exhibition catalogue for Go East: The Gene Brian Sherman Contemporary Asian Art Collection, Emily Rolfe notes: Daido Moriyama was a member of the pivotal Provoke group of photographers who grappled with modernisation and critiqued the West s growing influence. Founded in 1968, the three-issue magazine Provoke is synonymous with postwar Japanese photography and the ph

• Binding: Hardcover

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