KISHIN SHINOYAMA / Nude

Kishin Shinoyama
Nude, 1970
Hardcover with dust jacket, 64 pages
36 × 26cm
Camera Mainichi, Tokyo
Text in Japanese and English

Condition: Good. Dust jacket with rubbing, surface marks and light wear to the edges and corners. Interior clean, with no significant marks or damage to the photographs or pages. The binding remains sound.

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One of Kishin Shinoyama’s landmark early photobooks, NUDE brings together a series of experimental studies of the nude made in the late 1960s. The book moves between stark desert landscapes, studio portraits and more surreal compositions, including the series Death Valley, Twin, Brown Lily, Maki and Sinatra, Phantom and Tokyo Fairy. Shinoyama’s treatment of the body combines fashion, eroticism and experimental photographic techniques, establishing the distinctive visual language that would become central to his work.