Nagare no uta. Soul and Soul. (SIGNED)

A selection of 81 black & white photographs divided into 4 sections: * “the coal-mine; so far away”, ** “mid-summer”,  ”taveling actors”, and * “after, hours”. “Kiyoshi Suziki worked as a sign painter his entire life, occasionally self-publishing photography books …Suzuki’s book, which is dedicated to his sister, reads like a personal history”, from Japanese Photobooks of the 1960s and 70s, page 188 by Ryuchi Kaneko and Ivan Vartanian. This copy of his first book has been signed by Kiyoshi SUZUKI on a special loosely laid-in piece of paper, Rare.

• Tokyo, self-published, 1972
• Oblong 4to (205 x 225 mm.) (92) pp
• Black cloth-covered board, title stamped in gold on the spine and an illustrated dust jacket. Fine copy
• First edition of 1500 copies