William Klein - Tokio (FIRST PRINTING, WITH ORIGINAL DUSTJACKET) - 1965

VERY EARLY, HIGHLY IMPRESSIVE BOOK by famous French-American photographer William Klein (1926-2022) - about Tokyo.

ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PHOTOBOOKS ever published -
with VERY RARE ORIGINAL DUSTJACKET.

- Andrew Roth, The Book of 101 Books, page 140-143
- The Open Book, Hasselblad Center, page 204/205
- 802 books from the M.+M. Auer collection, page 436

Big format German edition (which the Americans like more than their own smaller one) -
for many collectors the best of all Tokyo editions by William Klein.

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FANTASTIC LAYOUT, BREATH-TAKING JAPANESE PHOTOGRAVURE PRINTING by Zokeisha/Tokyo.
One of the fab four William Klein city-books in the sixties (New York, Rome, Moscow are the others).

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Nannen-Verlag, GmbH, Hamburg, 1965. First German edition, first printing.

Hardcover in black linen with dustjacket. 350 x 260 mm. 184 pages. Photos: William Klein. Foreword by Richard Friedenthal. Text in German.

Condition:
Book inside fresh and clean with no previous owner marks and with no foxing; pages smell lightly like smoke (not dramatic), no other remarkable flaws or defects. Book outside very fresh and flawless (protected by the jacket); no bumping (often the case). Dustjacket very impressive, complete with complete flaps, with no missing parts, quite fresh and better preserved than usual, but with smaller flaws; triangle tear at the bottom of the rear side, rubbed at the top and at the bottom of the spine and at the corners, a bit sunned at the spine, a bit waved at the top of the rear side (influenced by humidity/water, what is easily to see at the rear side of the jacket, where you can find big stains in the upper part), front flap with crease in the lower part. Overall fine, better than normal condition.

Brilliant photobook by the famous artist and photographer William Klein -
with the very rare original dustjacket very hard to find.

'William Klein was an American-born French photographer and filmmaker noted for his ironic approach to both media and his extensive use of unusual photographic techniques in the context of photojournalism and fashion photography. He was ranked 25th on Professional Photographer's list of 100 most influential photographers.
Klein trained as a painter, studying under Fernand Léger, and found early success with exhibitions of his work. He soon moved on to photography and achieved widespread fame as a fashion photographer for Vogue and for his photo essays on various cities. He directed feature-length fiction films, numerous short and feature-length documentaries and produced over 250 television commercials.
He was awarded the Prix Nadar in 1957, the Royal Photographic Society's Centenary Medal and Honorary Fellowship (HonFRPS) in 1999, and the Outstanding Contribution to Photography Award at the Sony World Photography Awards in 2011.
A retrospective exhibition of his work, William Klein: YES: Photographs, Paintings, Films, 1948–2013, was shown at the International Center of Photography in New York until September 15, 2022.'
(Wikipedia)