Akira Suzuki & Mako Midori - Les Fleurs du Mal - 1968

Les Fleurs du Mal

Akira Suzuki & Mako Midori
Nobel Bookshop/1968/Japanese/298*235*20

Akira Suzuki, Japanese photographer and actress Madako Midori's photo-poem collection ‘Evil Flower - Restoration from My Sexuality’ Madako Midori, the original ‘underground actress’ and bad girl who was active from the 1960s to the 1970s. She was a Toei exclusive actress for a long time and became famous for her roles in ‘Two Bitches’ and the ‘Night Youth Series’ with Tatsuo Umemiya, and since then she has been a major star not only in films but also on stage, in theatre and in TV dramas. Her bold nudity, large, beautiful eyes and sweet voice reminiscent of a bad girl made her a magnet for male fans, and this book is a collection of photographs and poems published in 1968 by Nobel Shobo, which at the time published a number of underground collections. From the text below: ‘So I look at my sexuality and act out my sexuality while trying to construct a world here like a sheet of negative paper. This black book is my sexual world, my book of rapture, rebellion and passion. (The Japanese Photobook 1912-1990)