Ide Denjiro (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Picture album dedicated to the small town near Nagasaki - Shimabara. Placed on the foot of the Unzen volcano the town is known for its multiple hot springs and pleasant Amakusa Unzen National Park. Unzen Volcano is a very famous mountain, it was designated as Decade Volcano by the United Nations due to its deadly eruptions and megatsunami. The collection of the splendid landscapes constitutes a serenade to the natural resort. Fairly rare book. Every picture bilined in Japanese and English. [8]+102 pp. 31x23 cm. Picture album. Leaves are made of different kinds of Japanese craft as well as industrial paper with different colours and textures. Collotype reproductions paste down. Numerous folded leaves. Illustrations are in colour and monochrome. Hard cover. Original leather binding. Embossed leather miniature sewed to the cover. Soiling and water stains of the cover. Scratched and small damage on the spine. Near fine condition. Extra shipping charges may be applied due to weight and size of the item.

Hardcover. Condition: g to vg. Third edition. Folio (12 1/8 x 9"). [11] leaves (Text), 114 leaves (Plates). Original full velvet yapp binding with debossed titles in Japanese and French, and gilt illustrated mounted leather plate to front cover. Back cover with checkered pattern and embossed publisher's name. Published by the Hibiki Shashin-kan, a commercial studio run by Ide Denjiro in Nagasaki during the 1920s and 30s, this scarce work is Denjiro's own creative vision of Nagasaki. Ide Denjiro experimented with the various printing techniques to produce soft, pictorialist, emotionally laden images. The famed Japanese photographer here shows soft focus and melancholic views of a city that would be changed forever on that fateful day of August 9, 1945, when an atomic bomb was dropped, wiping out over 80% of the city, and killing between 39,000 to 80,000 people. The 114 numbered plates show primarily photographs in photogravure and collotype process, as well as illustrations, including several multi-colored block prints. See: Manfred Heiting and Kaneko Ryuichi's "The Japanese Photobook, 1912-1990," Steidl, 2017. p.58. Some age-toning and fading to velvet. Spine rubbed. Some minor to moderate foxing throughout, mostly to very first and very last pages. Binding in overall good-, interior in good+ to very good condition.

First edition. 114 photographic plates (several tipped in and fold-out) and numerous illustrations with facing tissue guards. Folio. Japanese text, ca. Original decorated velvet binding (slightly stained) in original cardboard box, a very good copy. [viii], 53; 114ff. Nagasaki, Hibiki Photo Studio, dated: Showa 3 [i.e. The first part of the present work is a yearbook and a commemorative album for graduates of the Medical School of Nagasaki University in 1928. While being a wide-ranging introduction to the University with its departments, clubs and societies, as well as an illustrated history of Nagasaki, many of the images bear the hallmarks of the 'geijutsu shashin' movement. The style of this book is reminiscent of the work by Iida Kosaburo entitled 'Kohoku Ingashu' (Privately published, 1914) which is regarded amongst the first artistic photobook to have been published in Japan: Both use a variety of papers in different colours and textures to produce an interesting artistic effect - more of a record of memories in the form of an album than a documentary depiction of the city. Little is known about the Hibiki Shashinkan, apart from the fact that it was a commercial studio run by Ide Denjiro in Nagasaki during the 20s and 30s. He experimented with the various printing techniques to produce the soft, hazy, and and emotionally laden images that the pictorialists aspired to. No copy in OCLC.