Kikuji Kawada Chizu (Maquette Edition) Signed copy

  • 290,00€

About

Kawada’s The Map / Chizu is the most famous and sought after book in the history of Japanese photography. Designed with the noted graphic designer Kohei Sugiura, Chizu has seen numerous editions since its original publication in August 1965. In November 2001, New York Public Library acquired the rarest version of the book, Kikuji Kawada’s unique, handmade maquette. The maquette presents a notably different physicality than that of the published edition—many of the pictures are the same but with variant croppings, tonalities, orientations, and a markedly dissimilar configuration with a pair of jacketed volumes—each nearly twice as large in format as the published version—separated by a black-and-white divider. With its pages made of thin, silvery darkroom prints, folded in half and pasted back-to-back, there are no folios to unfurl, only a progression of intense, full-bleed images. This MACK version is an exquisite facsimile of the two-volume maquette, and includes an accompanying bilingual booklet featuring new scholarship by Joshua Chuang and Miyuki Hinton, together with an extended interview with the artist, detailing the evolution of one of the greatest photobooks ever made.

 

Two hardback books, each with a jacket, plus one paperback booklet with leporello fold. Housed in a buckram bound hardback slipcase, protected in a printed cardboard mailer 

Co-published with The New York Public Library

 

ABOUT THE SIGNED EDITION

The signed edition includes a unique slip stamped and signed by the artist in a range of colours and bound into the inside front cover of the booklet.

Product details

Title
Kikuji Kawada Chizu (Maquette Edition) Signed copy
Publication Date
September 2021
Publisher
MACK Books
Language
English, Japanese
Number of Pages
272
ISBN-10
978-1-912339-71-6
Size
7,76 x 11,77 inch
19.7 x 29.9 cm

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