Chizu (Maquette Edition)
Kikuji Kawada
MACK
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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.
日本写真史の金字塔として名高い川田喜久治の写真集『地図』。著名なグラフィックデザイナー杉浦康平の装丁によるこの写真集は、1965年の刊行以来、2005年と2014年に復刻版が出版されている。2001年秋には、ニューヨーク公共図書館が、極めて貴重な『地図』の構想模型(マケット)を収蔵している。マケットは川田の手製であり、写真集とほぼ同じ作品が収録されているが、イメージのトリミングや階調、向きなどにバリエーションがある。より大きな違いは、二分冊の装丁であり、サイズも出版本の2倍近くある。写真のページには、ごく薄い、複写用の印画紙が使われ、写真同士が貼り合わされている。出版本にある観音開きのページを開いていく形式とは異なり、どれも断ち切りの激しいイメージが連続して現れる。本書は、この2冊本のマケットの精緻な復元であり、ジョシュア・チュアン(ニューヨーク公共図書館ウォラック記念アート部門アソシエート・ディレクター)とヒントン実結枝(アート・リサーチャー)による研究論文に加え、初版本の写真集『地図』の制作をめぐる川田自身の詳細なインタビューを収録している。
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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
Bilingual: English, Japanese
19.7 x 29.9cm, 272 pages (total)
ISBN 978-1-912339-71-6
September 2021
Co-published with The New York Public Library
The signed edition includes a unique slip stamped and signed by the artist in a range of colours and bound into the inside front cover of the booklet.
‘This new edition by MACK is … a thing of dark beauty in itself.‘ The Guardian
‘[One] of Japan’s most affecting postwar works in any medium‘ New York Review of Books
‘offers further perspectives on this rarest and most mysterious artistic response to the nightmare of World War II.‘ The New York Times
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