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Ordeal by Roses

Eikoh Hosoe - Tadanori Yokoo

€ 1150

In stock

Published by Shueisha, in 1971, 104 pages, 39×53 cm
Original edition, 41 photographs printed in black and bistre by Hosoe, with six large compositions by Tadanori Yokoo.
Preface by Mishima.
Bound in black velvet with a color photograph reworked by Yokoo on the cover; frontispiece portrait of Mishima by Hosoe printed on aluminum. Lacking the original box.
Condition: Very good ++  (light wear to the velvet and foxing on the endpapers)

A legendary collaboration between photographer Eikoh Hosoe and writer Yukio Mishima, Ordeal by Roses stands as one of the most iconic photo books of the 20th century.
Shot between 1961 and 1962, Hosoe’s dramatic compositions turn Mishima’s body into a living sculpture. An exploration of beauty, death, and eroticism that defined postwar Japanese art photography.
Originally designed by Kohei Sugiura for the first edition in 1963, this is the rare 1971 edition, redesigned by Tadanori Yokoo.
A very rare edition in superb condition