SIGNED BY CELEBRATED PHOTOGRAPHER EIKOH HOSOE
HOSOE, Eikoh. Eikoh Hosoe: Meta. New York: International Center of Photography, (1991). Quarto, original red paper wrappers. $1200.
First paperback edition of the companion volume to the 1991 traveling retrospective exhibit surveying Hosoe’s long and distinguished career, with 37 full-page plates of some of Hosoe’s best-known photographs, boldly signed by Hosoe both in Japanese and with the Roman alphabet.
Contains many of Hosoe’s best-known images, including photographs from his landmark books Killed by Roses, Man and Woman, Embrace and others, with reminiscences and explanations by Hosoe. With a chronology of Hosoe’s career, an exhibition history and selected bibliography.
A fine copy.