Document Kouen – Document Park
€ 420
Published by Seven Sha in 1980, 96 pages, 21×26 cm
First edition, softcover, dust jacket, obi
Condition : Near fine
To make the book, Yoshiyuki trawled the Shinjuku and Yoyogi parks in Tokyo, both notorious for nocturnal sexual activity, and photographed the ‘goings-on’ with infrared flash, which enabled him to get images in the dark without the flash being visible. …
“Document Park is a brilliant piece of social documentation, catching perfectly the loneliness, sadness and desperation that so often accompany sexual or human relationships in a big, hard metropolis like Tokyo.”
– Parr & Badger, The Photobook: a History, vol. 2, pp. 296-297.
A superb copy in dust jacket with the publisher’s original red obi, as issued with 78 black and white photographs.