Main entry:

Kawada, Kikuji, 1933- photographer.

Title & Author:

地図 / 川田 喜久治. Chizu / Kikuji Kawada.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

[London, UK] : MACK ; [New York, N.Y.] : New York Public Library, [2021]
©2021

Description:

3 volumes : illustrations (black & white), facsimiles ; 30 cm

Notes:
Consists of 3 volumes. 2 volumes of photographs and 1 volume with texts in English and Japanese along with "a comparative study of the production edition of Chizu, published in1965 by Bijutsu Shuppansha, and its earlier two-volume maquette, made around 1962-1963 by Kikuji Kawada in collaboration with Kohei Suigiura, and now in the collection of the New York Public Library."
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction / Joshua Chang -- Conversation with Kikuji Kawada / Joshua Chang, Miyuki Hinton -- Tracing the life that left a shadow: Kikuji Kawada's making of Chizu / Miyuki Hinton -- Chronology: Kikuji Kawada and Chizu, 1933-1965 / Miyuki Hinton.
Accompanying texts in English by Joshua Chuang and Miyuki Hinton; translated into Japanese by Manami Fujimori, Nobuyoshi Kanakura, Yuji Kitamaru.

Summary:

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. 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. Co-published with The New York Public Library.

ISBN:

9781912339716 (hardcover)
1912339714 (hardcover)

Subject:

Kawada, Kikuji, 1933-
Genbaku Dōmu Pictorial works.
Genbaku Dōmu
Photography Japan Hiroshima-shi.
Photographers Japan.
Photography, Artistic.
World War, 1939-1945 Japan Hiroshima-shi Art and the war.
Photographie Japon Hiroshima.
Photographes Japon.
Photographie artistique.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 Japon Hiroshima Art et guerre.
art photography.
Photographers
Photography
Hiroshima-shi (Japan) History Bombardment, 1945 Pictorial works.
Hiroshima-shi (Japan) In art.
Hiroshima (Japon) Histoire 1945 (Bombardement) Ouvrages illustrés.
Japan
Japan Hiroshima-shi

Form/genre:

photobooks.
Photobooks
Art
History
Pictorial works
Livres de photographies.

Added entries:

Chuang, Joshua, writer of supplementary texts.
Hinton, Miyuki, writer of supplementary texts.
Fujimori, Manami, translator.
Kanakura, Nobuyoshi, translator.
Kitamaru, Yuji, translator.

Chizu (maquette edition) = Chizu (māketto-ban)
Map
Map of Chizu = "Chizu" no Chizu
地図 / 川田 喜久治

Holdings:

Location: Library main 316903
Call No.: 316903
Copy: v. 1
Status: Available

Location: Library main 316903-2
Call No.: 316903
Copy: v. 3
Status: Available

Location: Library main 316903-1
Call No.: 316903
Copy: v. 2
Status: Available