Ikui Eikoh (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very good+ to fine condition. First edition. Signed in silver on verso of black front free endpaper and in Kanji on imprint page at rear. Square Folio (14 1/2"). Unpaginated. Original black cloth with blind-stamped lettering on cover and spine, housed in white cardboard slipcase with black lettering on tan label. Black endpapers. Illustrated title page. Designed by Daisuke Suzuki. "I drew 35 frames on the focusing screen of a twin-lens reflex camera in the form of a grid pattern. I then sat right in front of a television set in a darkroom and set up the camera at a distance from which the shining television screen fitted into one of the frames. I then selected a channel. The shutter was fired to capture the live image in the frame. Going to the next frame. There are a total of 42 pictures and the number of plates per picture varies from a single one to 18, all of them being a different size. In the course of this project I took 7000 exposures on 200 plates over a two-year period. This book contain a collection of 35 pictures, 6370 shots on 182 plates that I have selected for printing." (Mochizuki). With a short essay by Ikui Eikoh: "With regards to issues raised by this project, an American sociologist Marita Sturken suggest that the historical images and feelings held by an audience through television are of an immature and vague character, not yet based on a firm recognition or perception." (Ikui Eikoh) And ".the Look, if it insists, .is always potentially crazy." (Roland Barthes). Contains list of plates at rear. Text in Japanese and English. Slipcase and binding with minor wear, interior in fine condition.

Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing. Signed by Mochizuki in silver ink verso the black front free endpaper, and in kanji in black ink on the colophon page. Hardcover. Fine black cloth-covered boards, with title blind-stamped on front cover and spine, no dust jacket as issued, and enclosed in a white cardboard slipcase with title printed in black on pasted-on beige label. Photographs and text (in English and Japanese) by Masao Mochizuki. Essay (in English and Japanese) by Eikoh Ikui. Includes list of plates. Designed by Daisuke Suzuki. Unpaginated (80 pp.), with 82 black and white plates, most full-bleed (and a thumbnail black and white illustration of Mochizuki's modified Mamiya Flex C-2 camera on the colophon page), printed with Hyecoo Highconc Black L ink on White A Post paper. 15-1/4 x 14-3/4 inches. This first edition was limited to 1800 hardbound copies. New (opened only for signature) in New slipcase. A stunning array of still photographs taken by Mochizuki directly from his black and white television using a modified camera, which enabled him to capture up to 35 exposures on one 6 x 6 cm frame of film, are here presented in grids that resemble contact sheets. However, the slight overlap of individual exposures suggests the fleeting nature of the moving image, and the evasiveness of the information contained therein. As much a meditation on television culture as it is a document of specific moments, the aggregate imagery, taken over the course of one year, comprises a virtual time capsule of mid-1970s television events, with subjects including the U.S. pullout of Saigon, the Apollo-Soyuz mission, sporting events, politics, film, and local news. Signed by Author.

Couverture rigide. Condition: Très bon.