Kishin Shinoyama. A Fine Day. Tokyo, Heibon-sha, 1975. Black leatherette boards stamped in gilt.

Kishin Shinoyama. A Fine Day. Tokyo, Heibon-sha, 1975. Black leatherette boards stamped in gilt.

First edition 4to. Illustrated throughout in color; gray endpapers; black leatherette boards stamped in gilt; transparent dust-jacket printed with white text. A sequential diary of events by Kishin Shinoyama, one of Japan's best known commercial photographers, all occurring in 1974. illustrated throughout with 230 color photographs; gray endpapers; black leatherette boards stamped in gilt; transparent dust jacket printed with white text. Very fine copy.  

Kishin Shinoyama, a key Provoke-era photographer, begins this book with a page-long list of events that occurred in Japan in 1974, including news of baseball and boxing, politics and economics, as well as that of an exhibition of the Mona Lisa in Tokyo, a demonstration by fishermen against atomic powered ships, a concert by Yoko Ono, a typhoon, an earthquake, and a meteorological study of snowfall on Mt. Fuji. This is followed by Shinoyama's densely colorful images of all these events. While the range of subjects may seem random, Shinoyama's electrifying use of color binds these parts into a grand conceptual dream. Inquire for price.