EIKOH HOSOE / Embrace

Eikoh Hosoe
Embrace, 1971
Hardcover with dust jacket in publisher's slipcase, unpaginated
35.8 x 25cm
Shashin Hyoronsha Publishing House, Tokyo

Preface by Yukio Mishima

Condition: Excellent. A remarkably well-preserved copy with clean, bright contents. The publisher's original slipcase shows a small previous owner's pen mark, otherwise presents exceptionally well.

A landmark of post-war Japanese photography, Embrace brings together Eikoh Hosoe's haunting and deeply intimate images made between the late 1950s and early 1970s. Exploring themes of desire, mortality, memory and the body, Hosoe's photographs move between documentary and dream, capturing the emotional intensity that came to define a generation of Japanese avant-garde image-making. Featuring his celebrated collaborations with writer Yukio Mishima and dancer Tatsumi Hijikata alongside lesser-known works, Embrace is an essential survey of one of photography's most influential voices and a cornerstone of any collection of Japanese photobooks.