Kikuji Kawada - Chizu / The Map - 2021

Coffret Chizu (the map) - Kikuji Kawada

Maquette édition
Mack, 2021
Excellent condition, the box and the 3 books are in perfect condition
The protective carton has visible marks (see photo)

The Map / Chizu by Kikuji Kawada is the best-known and most sought-after book in the history of Japanese photography. Created according to a design by the famous graphic designer Kohei Sugiura, Chizu has gone through several new editions since its original publication in 1965 (Bijutsu Shuppan-sha, Tokyo). In November 2001, the New York Public Library acquired the book’s rarest version, the handmade maquette created by Kikuji Kawada.

Chizu / The Map is an exploration of the consequences and repercussions of World War II in Japan, focusing especially on the disaster of the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

This Mack reissue (2021) is a facsimile of that two-volume maquette, and it includes a bilingual English / Japanese booklet offering a study of the project by Joshua Chuang and Miyuki Hinton, as well as a lengthy interview with the artist, detailing the evolution of one of the greatest photography books ever made.

Contents: two hardcover books, each with a dust jacket (one illustrated with a photograph, the other white), plus a softcover (black) booklet comprising a section bound in a case format and a section in Leporello. The set is housed in a rigid slipcase, itself protected in a white printed carton. Texts in English and Japanese