Television 1975-1976.

£300 · Offered by Shapero Rare Books

Mochizuki Masao studied at Tokyo College of Photography in the early 1960s, where his classmates included photographer Issei Suda and Motomura Kazuhiko, founder of Yugensha publishers; Motomura distributed this book. For the first ten years of his career, Mochizuki worked as a commercial and primarily street photographer in Tokyo. However, frustrated by the overtly subjective nature of this work, he began a more experimental working style that used shared cultural media to avoid such subjectivity. In the mid-1970s, over two years, Mochizuki, who was interested in the '"life force" of television, the never-ending stream of images that defines our experience of the outside world,' took a series of photographs of his television screen using a complex analogue process, capturing both high and low culture, including pivotal mid-1970s television events such as the United States withdrawal from Saigon, the Apollo-Soyuz space mission, the Viking No.1 landing on Mars, the death of Mao Tse-Tung, the reopening of the Suez Canal, and Muhammad Ali vs Joe Frazier in Manila, together with local news and entertainment programming including a showing of Akira Kurosawa's The Seven Samurai (1954). First edition; folio (365 x 365 mm, 14¼ x 14¼ in); black-and-white photographs printed in offset, text in Japanese and English by Ikui Eikoh, design by Daisuke Suzuki; black endpapers, black cloth-covered boards, spine and front lettered in blind, publisher's white card slipcase with brown and black p

• Binding: Hardcover

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