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BRILLIANT NEW EDITION of the legendary 1965 original - new, mint, unread.

STRONGLY LIMITED SIGNED VERSION.

"The most brilliantly designed Japanese book of its century" 
(Keyes)

"It is an extraordinarily refined, avant-garde book object" 
(101 Books)

Signed by Kikuji Kawada.
I GUARANTEE THE AUTHENTICITY OF THE SIGNATURE.

This deeply moving memorial work is one of the most avant-garde photobooks ever published, mentioned in all important books about photobooks: 

- Andrew Roth, 101 Books of Books, pages 174-177
- Martin Parr, Gerry Badger, The Photobook, volume 1, pages 286-87
- The Open Book, pages 212-13; Kaneko and Vartanian, Japanese Photobooks, pages 86-93
- 801 books of the M.+M. Auer collection, page 445
- Ehon Keyes: The Artist and the Book in Japan, page 66

The famous photobook title originally came out in in a small edition of 700 copies only. Designed by Kohei Sugiura. Published on the 20th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. 

IF YOU WIN MORE THAN 1 BOOK IN THIS AUCTION, YOU WILL PAY ONLY 1 X SHIPPING COSTS -
WORLDWIDE.

Mack Books, London. Co-published with The New York Public Library. 2021. 

Two hardback books, each with a jacket, plus one paperback booklet with leporello fold. Housed in a buckram bound hardback slipcase, protected in a printed cardboard mailer. 197 x 299 mm. 272 pages. Text: English, Japanese. 

Great photobook object in perfect condition - signed by the artist.

The limited signed edition includes a unique slip signed by the artist, bound into the inside front cover of the booklet. 

The Map is the defining photobook of post-war Japan, and "the ultimate photobook-as-object" -- "no photobook has been more successful in combining graphic design with complex photographic narrative"; "Kawada`s photographs are a masterly amalgam of abstraction and realism. [he] has conjured up a brilliant simile for the photograph itself -- scientific record, memory trace, cultural repository, puzzle and guide" (The Photobook). 

"This new edition by Mack is.a thing of dark beauty in itself." 
(The Best Art and Architecture of Autumn 2021, The Guardian) 

"(One) of Japan`s most affecting postwar works in any medium?" 
(New York Review of Books)
 
"Kawada`s The Map/Chizu is the most famous and sought after book in the history of Japanese photography. Designed with the noted graphic designer Kohei Sugiura, Chizu has seen numerous editions since its original publication in August 1965. In November 2001, New York Public Library acquired the rarest version of the book, Kikuji Kawada`s unique, handmade maquette. The maquette presents a notably different physicality than that of the published edition - many of the pictures are the same but with variant croppings, tonalities, orientations, and a markedly dissimilar configuration with a pair of jacketed volumes - each nearly twice as large in format as the published version - separated by a black-and-white divider. With its pages made of thin, silvery darkroom prints, folded in half and pasted back-to-back, there are no folios to unfurl, only a progression of intense, full-bleed images. This MACK version is an exquisite facsimile of the two-volume maquette, and includes an accompanying bilingual booklet featuring new scholarship by Joshua Chuang and Miyuki Hinton, together with an extended interview with the artist, detailing the evolution of one of the greatest photobooks ever made." 
(from the publisher)

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Signed; Kikuji Kawada - The Map. Chizu - 2021

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