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Beautiful reprint of this classic. Out of Print. Limited Edition of only 500 copies, signed in kanji, initialed EH, and numbered in blue ink by Hosoe, and with red chop mark. Out of print.

As New condition in Near Fine outer carton.

This edition has been lovingly produced by the Japanese art shop NADiff, in close consultation with Eikoh Hosoe. It is published in a limited edition of 500 copies for Aperture and 500 for NADiff. Each copy is signed and numbered by the artist.

The book includes a laid-in, folded pamphlet with English, French, and German translations of Mishima's text, and is contained in a clear vinyl dust jacket, an illustrated box, and outer cardboard carton.

In the fall of 1961, the photographer Eikoh Hosoe, then in his late 20s, agreed to make a series of portraits of the controversial author Yukio Mishima. Hosoe visited Mishima at his home and was immediately intrigued by a marble mosaic of the zodiac in the middle of Mishima's lawn. Taking the rubber hose with which Mishima's father was watering the garden, Hosoe wrapped it around the half-naked writer (who had been sunbathing) and photographed him in various poses against the zodiac mosaic and around the grounds. 

They named their collaboration Barakei (bara meaning "rose" and kei meaning "punishment," although the two decided on Killed by Roses as the English title).

The original edition, designed by Kohei Sugiura, established the standard for the two subsequent editions of 1971 (which chimed with Mishima's suicide) and 1985. Aperture now issues this facsimile of the 1963 original, making available once again one of the most infamous and intriguing photobooks of the twentieth century.




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Eikoh Hosoe - Barakei. Killed by Roses. Signed (Reprint 2008) - 2008

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