Shashin Tokyubin Tokyo (“Photo-(express)mail from Tokyo”)

A selection of the work first reproduced in 12 different photocopy zines - “Photo Express” -published monthly for the gallery CAMP in 1976 + some work in color. This “Image Shop” CAMP opened in 1976 and was a post-PROVOKE project of KITAJAMA, his teacher MORIYAMA, KURATA and some others, situated in the Shinjuku district in Tokyo. The folded poster has little images of happenings at the CAMP gallery and texts on one side and a large pink and yellow image on the other side.

Lit.: Parr/Badger, The Photobook: A History, vol. III, p. 222.

• Tokyo, Paroru-sha, 1980
• Small 4to (258 x 180 mm.) 152 pp. + (bound together) a folded poster
• Yellow stiff wrappers with red lettering and a dust jacket. Complete with publisher’s black “obi”, green lettering. This copy with a loose card and little flyer of the publisher’s house
•  First edition