SIGNED; Nobuyoshi Araki, Yoko Araki - Toyko Biyori (ASSOCIATION COPY, DEDICATION + DRAWING) - 1995

UNIQUE (!) ASSOCIATION (!) COPY:
with DEDICATION + DRAWING + SIGNATURE from photographer to photographer,
by Nobuyoshi Araki to Wilmar König (see pictures).

Wilmar Koenig was a well-known and important German photographer and co-founder (with Michael Schmidt, "Waffenruhe") of the now legendary "Werkstatt für Photographie" in Berlin-Kreuzberg.
As early as the 1970s, he was one of the pioneers of artistic colour photography in Germany and repeatedly travelled together with the American photographer William Eggleston over the years, creating images of mutual inspiration.

Beautifully signed by Nobuyoshi Araki.
I GUARANTEE THE AUTHENTICITY OF THE SIGNATURE, THE DEDICATION AND OF THE DRAWING
(there are many fakes in the market).

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“Tokyo Biyori” is a collection of works by Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki and his wife Yoko Araki. The project started in the July issue of the monthly magazine “Science of Thought” in 1989 but it was suspended in the September issue due to Yoko's hospitalization, she, then, died in January 1990. This book gathers three episodes: a beautiful essay by Yoko, a memoir of Araki written after the death of Yoko, and a picture of his search of Yoko's features alone in Tokyo.
Tokyo Biyori was also the title of the biographical film about the late Yoko Araki.

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Chikuma Shobo. 1995. First edition, third printing.
First printing came out in 1993 in identical form.

Hardcover with dustjacket and with obi. 140 x 200 mm. 210 pages. Black and white and color photos. Photographs: Nobuyoshi Araki. Text: Yoko Araki. Text in Japanese.

Condition:
Book inside and outside excellent, fresh and flawless; clean with no marks and with no foxing. Dustjacket very fresh and complete with no tears, no taped tears, no missing parts; very light trace of use. Bellyband (obi) with very fresh front and spine; with creases at the rear side, also small tear at the rear flap (easily to restore). Overall very fine condition.

WONDERFUL, UNIQUE ASSOCIATION COPY -
with signature, dedication and drawing from photographer to photographer, by Nobuyoshi Araki to Wilmar Koenig (see above).

Nobuyoshi Araki was born in Tokyo in 1940. Given a camera by his father at the ripe age of twelve, Araki has been taking pictures ever since. He studied photography and film at Chiba University and went into commercial photography soon after graduating. In 1970 he created his famous Xeroxed Photo Albums, which he produced in limited editions and sent to friends, art critics, and people selected randomly from the telephone book. Over the years, his bold, unabashed photographs of his private life have been the object of a great deal of controversy and censorship (especially in his native Japan), a fact that has not fazed the artist nor diminished his influence.