Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, September 6 - October 20, 2007. First edition with the original dustjacket, 128 pp. and 62 duotone illustrations. Includes an interview by Nobuyoshi Araki. The dustjacket has a minor chip at the bottom and shows some minimal wear around the edges. Inside is as good as new. A very collectable classic in the first edition. *For his notorious Park photos, taken at night in Tokyo’s Shinjuku, Yoyogi and Aoyama parks during the 1970s, Kohei Yoshiyuki used a 35mm camera, infrared film and flash to capture a secret community of lovers and voyeurs. His pictures document the people who gathered in these parks at night for clandestine trysts, as well as the many spectators lurking in the bushes who watched―and sometimes participated in―these couplings. With their raw, snapshot-like quality, these images not only uncover the hidden sexual exploits of their subjects, both same-sex and heterosexual, but they also serve as a chronicle of a Japan we rarely see. As Martin Parr writes in The Photobook: A History, Volume II, The Park is “a brilliant piece of social documentation, capturing perfectly the loneliness, sadness and desperation that so often accompany sexual or human relationships in a big, hard metropolis like Tokyo.”