Title: Yutaka Takanashi
Description: Toshi-e (Towards the City) is a landmark two-volume set of books from one of the founders of the avant-garde Japanese magazine Provoke. Published in 1974 and considered the most luxurious of all the Provoke era publications, its brooding, pessimistic tone describes the state of contemporary life in an unnamed city in Japan undergoing economic and industrial change. Books on books #6 reproduces all one hundred sixteen black and white photographs that make up the two volumes.--Dust jacket.
Subjects: Photography, artistic, Japan, description and travel, Photography, Artistic Photography, Pictorial works, Schwarzweißphotographie