Shokuji / The Banquet.

£850 · Offered by Shapero Rare Books

Araki Nobuyoshi made this book as a tribute to his late wife, Yoko. The first section contains a selection of colour food photographs made for magazines and on other commercial assignments, and the second is a black-and-white photo diary of the meals he and Yoko ate together in the months before she died. In between the two photographic sections is Yoko's written food diary, begun in January 1985, 5 years before her death. First edition; 8vo (245 x 185 mm, 9¾ x 7¼ in); colour and black-and-white photographs printed in offset, design by Komagata Katsumi; red endpapers, slight erasure mark to rear, printed adhesive-bound wrappers, green, red, and white, foot of spine bumped, photo-illustrated dust-jacket, minor wear to foot of spine, publisher's red printed wraparound band, minor wear to foot, crease to lower fold, near-fine; [128]pp. The Photobook A History I, p307; A Book of Araki Books! 1970-2005 pp208-11; Araki: Self Life Death p699; Errata Editions Books on Books no.15.

• Binding: Hardcover

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