SIGNED BY EIKOH HOSOE, WITH 11 LOVELY PLATINUM PRINTS

(HOSOE, Eikoh) BAUDELAIRE, Charles. Flowers of Evil. New York: 21st Editions, 2006. Folio, original cloth, measures 17 by 15 inches; 58 pages. Housed in original wood packing case.    $15,000.

Signed limited first edition, number 45 of 65 copies signed by photographer Hosoe, translator John Wood and publisher Steven Albaharil.

Eikoh Hosoe’s platinum prints of strikingly rendered forms and sensuous embraces resonate with potent emotional power. This selection of classic images by Japan’s most revered photographer are united with the words of 19th century French poet Charles Baudelaire, a major influence on Hosoe. Baudelaire’s poems were said to have sent “a new shiver” through the art world, which is exactly what Eikoh Hosoe’s photographs did a century later. Presented in a hand crafted binding, Hosoe’s images and Baudelaire’s poems, in a new translation by John Wood, offer collectors a wide array of sensual and intellectual experiences.

Fine condition.